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The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's how to see it

Earth passes through a comet's trail this week, producing a beautiful display of meteors in the night sky. Find out where to look and how to get the best view

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Environment

Earth's most important rivers are in the sky – and they're drying up

Features

Inside the powerful fire clouds that pack a volcanic punch

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Inside the powerful fire clouds that pack a volcanic punch

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Northern lights

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The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why

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Environment

Deforestation in the Amazon could raise local temperatures by 1.5C

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Pluto

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It will be 'snowing' nitrogen on Pluto for the next century

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Health

The death of 9-year-old girl may be a tipping point for air pollution

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Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges

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Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges

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Someone is wrecking the ozone layer again. They must be stopped

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Someone is wrecking the ozone layer again. They must be stopped

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We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much

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We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much

Climatologists have tried to set a “carbon budget” that tells us how much greenhouse gas we can emit and stay below 2°C, but their efforts have only caused confusion

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Earth

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

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Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Earth

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

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Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

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