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Toilet to tap: Drinking water at the press of a flush

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Toilet to tap: Drinking water at the press of a flush

Water grids are ruinously expensive to build and maintain. Treating wastewater in the home is a practical alternative – if we can get over the yuck factor

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Beijing's coal ban may herald the end of the fuel

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Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

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Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

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Chile is facing yet another massive earthquake

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Chile is facing yet another massive earthquake

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Massive smart light lab tests tech to slash emissions

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Massive smart light lab tests tech to slash emissions

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Local people preserve the environment better than governments

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Local people preserve the environment better than governments

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Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

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Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

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Urban growth: bio-bricks offer a whiff of the future

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Urban growth: bio-bricks offer a whiff of the future

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An easier way to turn plant scraps to plastics

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An easier way to turn plant scraps to plastics

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Rogue waves: The real monsters of the deep

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Rogue waves: The real monsters of the deep

They were dismissed as sailors' tall tales, but they're real: huge waves that rise without warning and can destroy ships. Is there any way to predict them?

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We're putting a forest on a climate-change fast-track

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Hungry seals tour offshore wind farms looking for food

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Fix farms in a few countries and feed 3 billion people

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Watchdog must be tougher on climate sceptic 'charity'

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