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By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing

Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by agricultural economists. This extra cost contributed to food price inflation and the UK’s cost-of-living crisis.

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Earth's 'oldest' impact crater is much younger than previously thought, new study finds

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.

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Thousands of games have been censored from major platforms, with LGBTQIA+ creators caught in the crossfire

Online game marketplaces itch.io and Valve’s Steam have recently delisted or completely removed more than 20,000 titles from their storefronts, after not-for-profit group Collective Shout pressured payment processors to change their rules.

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Our DNA analysis of 75,000-year-old bones in Arctic caves reveals how animals responded to changing climates

As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to survive the cold face unprecedented challenges. While scientists are learning more about how modern wildlife responds to environmental change, we still know little about how species coped in the past.

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What the world can learn from Korea’s 15th-century rain gauge

Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and more severe across the globe. The cause is often rain — either too little or too much. The monsoon regions of the world, where societies have weathered cycles of drought and deluge for thousands of years, hold essential lessons about rainwater monitoring…

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Storm Floris: the weather is rarely this windy in August – which makes it more dangerous

Storm Floris made landfall in northern parts of the UK on the morning of Monday August 4 2025, bringing intense rainfall followed by severe winds throughout the afternoon. The Met Office issued an amber weather warning for much of Scotland and yellow alerts for parts of Northern Ireland and northern…

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Binary star systems are complex astronomical objects − a new AI approach could pin down their properties quickly

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult.

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Economists want a carbon price comeback – but does Australia have the political courage?

Bold economic ideas are flowing ahead of this month’s roundtable convened by the Albanese government, aimed at boosting Australia’s productivity and economy, and repairing the budget. Among the biggest ideas to emerge is: should Australia resurrect its carbon price?

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Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies

Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.

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‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty

With more countries looking to explore space, there is a rising hope that space is now more accessible for diverse participants.

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Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.

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New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.

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Why the US is letting China win on energy innovation

During the cold war, the US and Soviet Union were locked in a desperate race to develop cutting‑edge technologies like long-range missiles and satellites. Fast forward to today and the frontiers of global technology have pivoted to AI and next‑generation energy.

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Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters

A small coastal community in Kivalina, Alaska sued several major oil and gas companies, including Exxon Mobil, in 2008. Local representatives argued that greenhouse gas emissions from these companies were contributing to the erosion of the coastline and causing irreversible damage to their village by heating the climate.

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Will the latest diplomatic moves to end the war in Gaza work?

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Flames to floods: how Europe’s devastating wildfires are fuelling its next climate crisis

In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when flying from London to my family home in Greece during the summer months. The sky glows an eerie, apocalyptic red, and the scent of smoke fills the cabin. Silence falls as we become unwilling…

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Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

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Hormone-free male contraceptive pill passes first safety test

A potential new male contraceptive drug has just undergone its first tests in human volunteers. The results give the first indication that the drug, which does not use artificial hormones or affect testosterone production by the testes, may be safe in humans.

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Starmer’s move on Palestinian statehood is clever politics

Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will recognise Palestinian statehood by September 2025 unless Israel meets certain conditions, marking a significant shift in UK policy.

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Will UK’s 10% discount get more people buying electric cars? The evidence doesn’t look good

The UK government is offering a 10% taxpayer-funded discount on new plug-in cars that cost less than £37,000. It’s an attempt to re-energise the currently flatlining market for new electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK – but there are reasons for people’s reluctance that a price cut alone won’t solve.

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‘Darkening’ cities is as important for wildlife as greening them

For billions of years, life has depended on Earth’s rhythm of day and night. DNA codifies body clocks in all animals and plants, which helps their cells act according to this cycle of light and dark.

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Two of the best stop smoking medications have been available in the UK since 2024 – so why is no one using them?

In 2021, varenicline, the most effective single drug for quitting smoking, was withdrawn from the market in the UK because impurities were found at greater levels than is considered safe.

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Why modern masculinity is a climate issue

What does masculinity have to do with the climate? A surprising amount.

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Dune patterns in California desert hold clues that help researchers map Mars’ shifting sands

Looking at dunes and other rock formations on both Earth and Mars can tell scientists the environmental conditions that created them

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Street lamps aren’t the only form of artificial light pollution – here’s how to create darker nights

Without a view of the stars at night, Don McLean would never have been able to write Vincent and Vincent van Gogh would not have painted Starry Night. Viewing a sky full of stars is part of what makes us human. The light from stars has travelled thousands of miles…

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