Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'

'We're not really guilty. We didn't deliberately set out to heat the world'

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Stroud - printing their own currency

Proponents of local currencies say they boost community economies by keeping money in the area, but critics dismiss them as fashionable gimmicks and tantamount to protectionism.

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Tiny cube to tackle space debris

UK researchers have developed a device to drag space debris out of orbit.

They plan to launch a demonstration of their "CubeSail" next year. It is a small satellite cube that deploys a thin, 25-sq-m plastic sheet.

Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft's low-Earth orbit will catch the sheet and pull the object out of the sky much faster than is normal.

The Surrey Space Centre team says the concept could be fitted to larger satellites and even rocket stages.

The group also envisages that a mature system would even be sent to rendezvous and dock with redundant spacecraft to clean them from orbit.

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Obama's full speech following passing of health bill

Bombast in victory.

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Persian new year celebrated

The Persian New Year has been celebrated for 3000 years across a whole swathe of the world which used to form the ancient Persian empire.

This year, the United Nations General Assembly recognised Nowruz as a national holiday.

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Cliff-edge house hosts last party

The owner of a house on a Scarborough cliff edge has hosted a special dinner as a farewell gesture to the property.

Teetering on the edge of Knipe Point in Scarborough, the property is at risk of falling off the cliff as it crumbles. Owner Kane Cunningham invited twelve guests to the bungalow's "last supper" to highlight the perils of climate change.

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1984 for 2012 - UK develops 'intelligent CCTV'

Whatever you do, don't attempt street theatre or situationist art, because the video monitoring system will know you're a terrorist and the auto-arrest mechanism will be triggered. Then. because the cuts have 'streamlined' the courts removing 'inefficiencies' you'll be allocated a punishment on a cheapest available basis, probably shipped abroad for punishment which the UK is buying in as part of its committment to the developing world...

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Insect that fights Japanese knotweed to be released

Up, up and away..

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Bonobos opt to share their food

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