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Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard-to-reach places, improving predictions of sea-level rise

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Unshackled, big auto will keep choking the world on diesel fumes

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Unshackled, big auto will keep choking the world on diesel fumes

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Hundreds of newly-discovered plants may yield new crops or drugs

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Hundreds of newly-discovered plants may yield new crops or drugs

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Unique skeleton

Life

Frog skeleton allows them to jump horizontally or vertically

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Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change

Life

Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change

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It's been dry

Earth

Driest ten months in 100 years recorded in southern England

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Plastic pollution on beach

Earth

Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste

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Picture of Earth looking very round and blue

Earth

Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager

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Polar bear eating eggs

Life

Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts

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Scott Pruitt

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Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists

The Trump administration has dismissed several scientists from the advisory board of the US Environmental Protection Agency and may replace them with people from industry

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UK government subsidises coal sector with £356 million a year

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UK's plan to clean up its air is still inadequate, critics say

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The UK government's attitude to air pollution stinks

Leader

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Arctic oil and gas must remain off limits for good, Trump

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