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Animation showing ozone-harming chemicals moving from low to high latitudes

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Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

Leaks of a common chemical used in paints and for manufacturing are harming the ozone layer and could delay recovery of the ozone hole until 2095

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Photo of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft

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The mystery xenon in Earth’s atmosphere came from icy comets

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Crowd watches rocket launch at Cape Canaveral

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Fleet of CubeSats launches to study the neglected 'ignorosphere'

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Sprite lightning

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Lightning round-up: The world’s weirdest electricity

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

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NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO₂ to space

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Sunset from the International Space Station

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Geoengineering the sky is scary but we need to test it now

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Venus with stripy features in atmosphere

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Gentle breeze may help Venus's atmosphere spin like crazy

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Power station chimney

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UK’s CO₂ emissions lowest since 19th century as coal use falls

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LIGO

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The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

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Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

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Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

Physicists have achieved record temperature reductions of more than 40 °C using radiative cooling, which beams heat through the atmosphere

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A dash of hydrogen and methane could have kept Mars warm

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The world in 2076: That nuclear war was a bit of a bummer

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New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto

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Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

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