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Heat wave reaches Greenland amid threat to island’s ice sheet
Rising temperatures are expected to cause massive loss of ice in the Arctic.
Video – Moment floodwater poured over collapsed reservoir dam just hours before town was evacuated
Around 6,500 people are being urged to leave Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire after the days of heavy rainfall
Planet just 31 light years from Earth is ‘potentially habitable’
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system
Sixth person dead after eating listeria-infected hospital sandwich
They died after contracting the bug by eating a pre-packed sandwich from a Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Plastic bag sales down by 90% since 5p charge introduced
The levy came into effect in England in 2015.
Archbishop of Glasgow hits out at forced evictions of asylum seekers
Philip Tartaglia has urged newly appointed Home Secretary Priti Patel to treat people with dignity.
Death of man handcuffed by cops after security guard bitten during violent rampage to be probed
Police say the 37-year-old died in hospital this morning after being arrested for attacking security guards outside the Excel Centre in London's Docklands
Video – Bridge in North Yorkshire has collapsed after a month’s rain fell in just four hours
Houses were left under water and roads were blocked as heavy rain fell last night, leaving villages cut off and people stranded
Astonishing pics show intricate details of insects covered in dewdrops
Professional macro photographer Alexander Mett, 38, spends hours searching for tiny bug in nature reserves in Bavaria, Germany