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Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050

Earth

Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050

The first global “light census” shows that the area affected by artificial lighting is growing by 2.2 per cent every year, posing risks to wildlife and human health

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Adelie penguins

Life

Let's hope chickless penguin colony can come back from the brink

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Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

Earth

Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

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Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

Earth

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

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woman looks at a dodo

Earth

Why setting ‘safe’ limits for environmental damage won’t work

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Tesla's new trucks

Technology

Tesla's electric trucks are great but they won't save the planet

Insight

Shipping at sea

Technology

Camera spots hidden oil spills and may find missing planes

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Big aftershocks could well hit Iran and Iraq in next 48 hours

Humans

Big aftershocks could well hit Iran and Iraq in next 48 hours

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Earth

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Donald Trump on his own

Earth

When it comes to climate, Donald Trump is in a club by himself

With pariah state Syria now backing the UN pact to curb global warming, the US stands against the other 195 nations of the world. What a disgrace, says Owen Gaffney

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Earth

What we're doing now will make the ocean completely unliveable

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Earth

Planting trees could mop up ten years’ worth of greenhouse gases

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Earth

China’s dreadful air pollution seems to have got a bit better

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Earth

Europe and the US were most responsible for deadly heatwave

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