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The heat in Europe is yet another sign that changes in Earth’s climate have reached dangerous levels. Australia must brace for even deadlier temperatures.

The airbase is home to 22 US nuclear bombs that are each four times the capacity of those dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945

Researchers have taken a tiny piece of soil from the city of Prosser, in Washington state to dispatch it with some of its “inhabitants” to space, which actually happened last week. The soil and its inhabitants of bacteria blasted off into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.…

John Grant, Climate Lecturer at Sheffield University, explains why the UK experienced such a brutal heatwave which saw Britain reach its highest ever temperatures

To celebrate the release of Jordan Peele’s new UFO thriller Nope, critics have picked their top films about extra terrestrials

A severe heatwave in Western Europe is shattering temperature records – including in the United Kingdom, where temperatures exceeded 40℃ on Tuesday for the first time on record.

When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What they don’t mention is just how much these proposals or geoengineering would cost to allow the world to continue burning fossil fuels.

The range of options has become a lot narrower, and the job has become much harder. But the worst thing that people can do is throw up their hands and say all is lost.

The space mission marks its moon landing anniversary this week