Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
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Hendrix in the clear over parakeet release
Image copyright Professor Tim Blackburn /Getty Image caption Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two...
Climate change: Anger as protesters barred from UN talks
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProtesters stage a sit in at UN climate talksEnvironmentalists and observers have...
Warwickshire man uses pension to save 62,000 animals
From badgers to swans and foxes, Geoff Grewcock has nursed them all back to health. The 69-year-old transformed his garden...
A ‘game changer’ for cardboard box waste?
Online orders account for billions of square metres of cardboard every year. Many objects packed very inefficiently, leading to waste.However,...
Naturalist and presenter David Bellamy dies at 86
Image copyright Chris Jackson / Getty Images Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he...
Climate change: Methane pulse detected from South Sudan wetlands
Image copyright Copernicus Data 2019/ESA/Sentinel-2 Image caption The Sudd: Microbes in saturated soils will produce methane Scientists think they can...
Greta Thunberg : ‘Almost nothing is being done’
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has addressed the COP25 summit, criticising politicians and CEOs for their lack of response to...
Climate change: Major emitters accused of blocking progress at UN talks
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Climate protesters on the streets of Madrid during COP25 Delegates from developing countries have...
Climate change: Greenland ice melt ‘is accelerating’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGreenland melting 'faster than expected'Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than...
Seafloor scar of Bikini A-bomb test still visible
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Art Trembanis: "The crater speaks to just terrible, awesome forces"The date...
Climate change: Amazon oil boom under fire at UN talks
Image copyright Nathan Lemphers Image caption Indigenous leaders at the COP asking for a moratorium on oil extraction in the...
Refugees at ‘increased risk’ from extreme weather
Image copyright IDMC Image caption Temporary camps have been hit by extreme weather in recent years Refugees and people displaced...
Grandmother killer whales boost survival of calves
Image copyright Kenneth Balcomb, Center for Whale Research Image caption The impact on survival rates was even greater if the...
Climate change: 1.9 billion people rely on natural ‘water towers’
Image copyright Matthew Paley/National Geographic Image caption Women tend their potato crop in the Chipursan valley, Pakistan. This region is...
Four tiger foetuses found in Indonesian ‘poacher’ arrests
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The skin of an adult tiger was found along with the foetuses Five people...
Brian Cox: Why I’ve been exploring our scientific past
Image caption In the People of Science series, Prof Brian Cox discusses some of the greatest researchers and their achievements...
Madrid climate talks will set the tone for Glasgow 2020
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Protests calling for greater action over climate change have been held in Madrid ahead...
