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Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs (Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago) © Alex Boersma)

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs not only lived in the Arctic 'but thrived there' (An artist impression of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs © Andrey Atuchin/Plos One))

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs ‘not only lived in the Arctic but thrived there’

20 per cent chance of missing Paris climate target in next five years © Getty Images

20 per cent chance of missing Paris Agreement climate target in next five years

Effects of emission cuts on global warming 'may take decades' © Getty Images

Effects of emission cuts on climate change ‘may take decades’

Last month was the joint second hottest June on record world-wide © Getty Images

June 2020 was joint-second hottest on record as global temperatures soar

Water is coming...

After humanity A timeline of the Earth after we go extinct

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Five ways humanity might become extinct

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How human extinction would change the Earth

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster © Fabio Manucci

Dinosaur extinction Asteroid impact ‘only plausible explanation’

China's manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi (or Deep-sea Warrior) © Sun Qing/Getty Images

Toxic mercury pollution found in the ocean’s deepest point

NGOs call for a post-COVID green recovery © Getty Images

NGOs call for a post-COVID green recovery

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac: Has climate change determined our future? © Getty Images

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Has climate change determined our future?

Tom Rivett-Carnac:

Climate change Can we really achieve net-zero emissions by 2050?

Stonehenge during the summer solstice © Getty Images

Summer solstice: five big questions

48000-year-old arrowheads found in Sri Lankan cave © Langley et al., 2020

48,000-year-old arrowheads found in Sri Lankan cave