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David Attenborough must be the only person who can appear on national television to tell us that we are all doomed, probably past the...
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The UK is at risk of losing the contract for the expansion of a flagship European weather research centre based in Reading because of...
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Blasts from the past: how ice age ponds are coming back...
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Young people resume global climate strikes calling for urgent action
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‘Sliding towards extinction’: koala may be given endangered listing as numbers...
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