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Good News about the four-day work week and the ozone layer’s recovery

Scientists have been excelling at their job lately: we’re getting better at battling cancer and we’ve helped the ozone layer hit a significant recovery milestone. Plus the four-day working week might soon go mainstream.

Mobility

NASA successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid

NASA now hopes the collision will change the trajectory of the asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind planetary defence test.

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Fires ravage Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Fires rage in the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. Experts say the fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees.

Green News

Euroviews. The fate of our planet 'hinges on soil', scientist reveals

Why is preserving soil so important in the fight against climate change?

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Climate

Environmental photo awards expose what we have done to our planet

These award-winning photographs take a look at the current state of our planet and give us a haunting glimpse into the future.

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The longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years

The spectacle was visible for all of North America and parts of South America, and later in Polynesia, Australia and northeast Asia.

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Watch: Longest near-total lunar eclipse for nearly 600 years

Today's eclipse, although only partial, will last three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, the longest since February 18, 1440, which lasted 23 seconds longer.

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SpaceX Crew returns to earth, exits capsule after successful splashdown

SpaceX Crew returns to earth, exits capsule after successful splashdown

USA

NASA spacecraft takes off to visit asteroids around Jupiter

A NASA probe called Lucy was launched into the sky to start a 12-year mission to explore asteroids, believed to be "fossils" of the early Solar System.

World News

50 million volunteers in 180 countries take part in World Cleanup Day

The movement's website showed which areas of Europe were most enthusiastic: Germany held over 900 events, France over 600, and Italy over 500.

Nature

These are the endangered plants we could grow on Mars

The soil on Mars is thought to be rich in iron, meaning leafy green vegetables could thrive.

World News

Dante’s Divine Comedy to be released into space for 700th anniversary

As Italy marks 700 years since the poet's death, his masterpiece will face the final frontier.

Mobility

Molecule discovery proves there could be life beyond our solar system

An international team of astronomers has moved one step closer to finding new planets similar to Earth with a groundbreaking study.

Eco-Innovation

Oxygen has been created on Mars for the first time in space history

What could this fascinating breakthrough mean for the future of human space habitation?

Green News

Why criminalising ecocide won’t solve the climate crisis

"Prison and criminalisation do not fix harm, they cause it."

Travel News

Space hurricane over the North Pole caught on camera

A swirling mass of plasma that rains electrons instead of water was caught on satellite in 2014, but the images have only just been uncovered.

Eco-Innovation

Are the Earth’s shifting magnetic fields causing climate change?

Bold new research claims that atmospheric changes more than 40,000 years ago could be related to the climate crisis.

Eco-Innovation

Why are our cities sinking and what does this mean for the future?

Scientists are worried that cities are collapsing under their own weight.

China

China space probe due to enter Mars' orbit

China's Mars probe spacecraft is due to enter the red planet's orbit within a month after traveling 400m kilometres since its launch in July

Green News

‘There is no vaccine for climate change’, warns British scientist

Why the climate crisis must not be forgotten amid the global health pandemic.