GALLERY Hot summer helped ensure that 2013 was an excellent year for British wildlife – especially insects
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Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore tells US Senate there is "no proof" humans cause climate change
Moore claims Greenpeace has taken a "sharp turn to the political left" and lost interest in science
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Citizen clean: Campaigners frustrated with the Government's failure to cut the amount of air pollution are uniting to tackle 'invisible killer'
If you live within earshot of the M1 in Sheffield, don't be alarmed if you spot a furtive character attaching small plastic tubes to lamp posts and garden fences across the neighbourhood. It's probably just Neil Parry, a clean air campaigner, and he's not up to anything sinister, unless you are a developer trying to build a new road or a supermarket planning a lorry-filled depot.
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Zoos in Europe ‘kill 5,000 healthy animals a year’
Revelation comes in wake of controversy over healthy giraffe put down in Copenhagen
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Awards recognise the clangers to have disgraced the screen this year
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galleryWhat would Audrey Hepburn, Marlon Brando and Spock look like if they were heavily tattooed?
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film
Paul Walker was killed in November
News
peopleIggy Pop was a punk before punk was invented but now the master revivalist is set to take a regular BBC Radio 6Music slot
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peopleLab campaigns to make sausage meat out of celebs' body tissue
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musicKaty Perry music video edited after causing Muslims offence
Life & Style
food + drinkAfter the arrival of lamb beer, we look at some other weird and wonderful flavours
Arts & Entertainment
oscarsMusic stars muscle in on Academy Awards glory
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Figures emerge showing that up to a fifth of culled badgers took more than five minutes to die during recent trials
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Family of wild beavers seen in England for first time in centuries
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Northern lights from around the world
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Now the two most famous scientific institutions in Britain and the US agree: 'Climate change is more certain than ever'
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Zoos in Europe ‘kill 5,000 healthy animals a year’
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Saudi preacher who 'raped and tortured' his five -year-old daughter to death is released after paying 'blood money'
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Is the right or left side of your brain more dominant? Take this quiz to find out
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14-year-old floors the world with deceptively simple poem
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Carrie Underwood: US country queen speaks out for gay marriage – but how will conservative fans take it?
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The idea that Katy Perry meant to insult Islam in her new video 'Dark Horse' is ludicrous
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