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Environment

The UK’s nuclear waste could be buried underground in Cumbria

A long-running search to find a location for an underground dump to store the UK’s nuclear waste received a boost today as a community in north-west England took the first formal step towards hosting the £12 billion facility

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Environment

European bison to be introduced in the UK for first time outside zoos

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Environment

Think of the science of fatbergs next time you flush toilet paper

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Environment

Twice as many UK citizens worried about climate change as 3 years ago

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Cannabis plant

Comment

Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo

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Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

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Earth

Congestion charge can cut childhood asthma attacks by half

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David Davis and Michel Barnier

Environment

One year until Brexit: 7 big issues that must be solved

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Earth

A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK’s new opt-out organ donation plan probably won’t work

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

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Humans

Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

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Health

Worrying we are ill when we aren’t is not as bad as it seems

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Earth

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

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Earth

Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe

Culture