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moisseyev/Getty To meet demand from artificial intelligence companies, some of the world’s largest data centres are planned for the outskirts of major Australian cities. Dozens more are planned. OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said Australia could be a global leader. This week, Prime Minister Anthony A...

A stretch of sand dunes will receive the highest statutory protections as a national nature reserve.

A grey squirrel control officer says there is no other option to trapping and killing the greys after a number of cases of squirrelpox were confirmed in the Borders.

Share trading in Elon Musk’s rocket company has been volatile since it went public a month ago.

Shut out of the sport for generations, women, disabled players and minority groups are flooding into grassroots clubs The post The marginalised groups finding community through football appeared first on Positive News.

The current heatwave has been hot, dry and exceptionally sunny with some locations seeing double the number of sunshine hours usually recorded at this point in the month, as Darren Bett explains.

YoungNH/Getty In Germany, Japan and the United States, famous carmakers are in trouble. One reason is intense competition from Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers – and growing public demand for EVs. The automakers who dominated the 20th century have largely failed to shift to electric. Volkswag...

Experts suggest more than 2,700 people may have died from heat-related causes during the heatwaves.

Maksym Belchenko/Getty Humans have been turning seeds and soil into food for thousands of years. We first started cultivating edible plants at the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 12,000 years ago. Ploughing made this possible. Ploughing, also known as tilling, is the process of turning over soil to...