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Midgley

Technology

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

From poisonous cars to the destruction of the ozone layer, Thomas Midgley almost single-handedly invented a global environmental crisis, finds Fred Pearce

Features

$Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas$

Earth

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Comment

A pregnant woman with a large glass of red wine

Health

Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the baby’s face

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Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe

Earth

Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe

Culture

Gardnerella vaginalis that causes bacterial vaginosis

Health

Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective

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Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

Earth

Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

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Macaque with stolen goods

Life

Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker

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Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

Earth

Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

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Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe

Life

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

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Narwhal

Earth

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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Physics

What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power

Insight

Earth

Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

Features

Health

A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay

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Earth

UK government subsidises coal sector with £356 million a year

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