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The autumn leaves seems to be hanging on longer than usual in my neck of the woods. Is this an indication of winter weather to come?
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Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured.
A Met Office weather warning is in place from 18:00 BST on Saturday until 15:00 GMT on Sunday.
Videos from the Arizona capital show people sheltering inside a car as hail smashes the windscreen, while intense downpours covered neighbourhoods in ice.
The disease, which usually affects cattle, has been identified in a patient who died in early October.
The deaths include two women found drowned in a cellar in the Bouches-du-Rhône region.
The Met Office has named a new storm, Boelo, which is set to bring another round of stormy weather to the UK over the weekend.
Scotland editor James Cook visits Rosebank - the UK's largest known untapped oilfield - in the North Atlantic.
A committee hears that Northern Ireland could lose out on economic opportunities if action is not accelerated.
The BBC's Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, to explain what peat is and why Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade.
Frank Rubio is set to be in the crew for the Artemis III mission and previously spent a year in space.
GE Aerospace previously confirmed fuel got into the river while repair work took place nearby.
The UK government approves production from Jackdaw amid intense debate about the project's environmental and economic impact.
Volunteers say they have been campaigning for 30 years to keep a wild space free from development.
The three year scheme is awarded £65,000 to collect seeds and plant them in the fells.
The BBC's Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, to explain what peat is and why Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade.
The research facility in Penrith will also help train the next generation of environmental scientists.
GE Aerospace previously confirmed fuel got into the river while repair work took place nearby.
Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.
Frank Rubio is set to be in the crew for the Artemis III mission and previously spent a year in space.
The surprise came after a teacher's father met Peake while working on a cruise ship.
Musk says special committees within both companies have been formed to look at a possible mega-merger.
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured.
Scottish Green Mark Ruskell, the SNP’s Keith Brown and Scottish Labour’s Jenny Young weigh up the Jackdaw decision.
Scotland editor James Cook visits Rosebank - the UK's largest known untapped oilfield - in the North Atlantic.
A committee hears that Northern Ireland could lose out on economic opportunities if action is not accelerated.
A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth.
How can we to compete against a natural force with the power of 25 atomic bombs?
What next for the world of maths after a major intrusion by AI?
What are the next steps for the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator?
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.
The world-famous Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London is about to undergo a massive makeover.
The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.
Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986.
A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science.
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
More than three million people in the UK work night shifts, which can greatly impact their health. What can be done to help them?
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
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Chemicals that mimic estrogen and other hormones are costing the EU $175 billion per year in health care, according to new research.
New study shows Los Angeles-area kids have fewer breathing problems now than they did in the 1990s.
Rising temperatures and declining snowpack in the mountains mean that the drought across the western U.S. is about to get even worse.
A Norwegian research vessel will spend six months on the sea ice to study the changing Arctic.
The Earth's heat could power homes and businesses worldwide, but it's barely been tapped. Indonesia is trying to change that.
A fast growing island off Japan is seen in new video from the Japanese Coast Guard.
Some enterprising Americans burn kernels to keep warm in winter, but there's a reason the green heating concept hasn't taken off.
In the 11th and 12th centuries, Muslim scientists were way ahead of contemporaries in Christian Europe.
Scientists say melting pingos, and not methane hydrates, are likely to blame for the dramatic craters.
Dredging in Biscayne Bay inflicts heavy damage on North America's only coral reef tract.
With severe water shortages in Brazil's cities and destructive floods in the Amazon, the boom-and-bust phenomenon may be South America's new normal.
Eugenie Clark, a marine biologist and ichthyologist, who died on Wednesday, helped the public understand and appreciate the much maligned shark.
By winning protection for their boreal forest, indigenous Canadians help slow global warming.
The Panama Canal is being widened. That means bigger ships and more cargo for Gulf and East Coast ports-and more alien species too.
Our correspondent reports from a Norwegian research ship that's drifting inside the Arctic ice cap, gathering data needed to predict its future.
The never-ending saga of the Keystone XL pipeline gets new twists with potential problems in Nebraska and South Dakota.
"Linking health, dietary guidance, and the environment will promote human health," new guidelines say.
Fishing gangs on the Irrawaddy River use electricity to illegally increase their catch.
Nearly 200 pilot whales are stranded on a New Zealand beach, prompting a massive rescue effort.
Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers now look as they did during the first treks to the continent, thanks to a decade-long restoration effort.
The amount of trash flowing into the world's oceans is worse than thought—eight million tons a year, says new study.
Tiny sea lion pups are washing up on beaches in unusually high numbers—for the third winter in a row.
Pacific herring stocks are shadows of their former abundance. But the Canadian government wants to reopen fishing off British Columbia.
Coral reefs are in danger of bleaching in open water, but in the sheltering roots of mangroves, some have found a home.
We should be figuring out how to pull CO₂ back out of the atmosphere, says a National Research Council report. But we should be wary of launching a planet-cooling chemical sunshade.
