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‘Mogging’ crowned Collins English dictionary word of the year
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‘Thrilled’: huge swarms of bogong moths surprise NSW residents and may point to species’ recovery
Researcher says sightings of the endangered moth have increased over the last two years but ‘this year has blo...
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Thai downpours shift north-westwards after Bangkok declared a disaster zone
Capital city submerged in waist-high flood water, while elsewhere Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii’s Big Island
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Country diary: An autumn bounty of fruits is well on its way
Cardigan: Taking a walk beside the River Teifi, I encounter trees beginning to fade into new season colour, an...
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño
Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of w...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster l...
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Starwatch: Autumnal equinox in northern hemisphere, spring in the south
Precise moment of equinox in UK is 1.05am on Wednesday – but day and night will not be equal until Friday
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The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why
The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’
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Baby girls’ greater interest in faces offers clue to nature v nurture debate
Study finds overall differences between groups of newborns by sex that are likely to be determined by biology
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in...
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’
The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers disc...