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Watch: Seedlings from Sycamore Gap tree sprout up

New life has sprung from the rescued seeds and twigs of the Sycamore Gap tree mysteriously cut down last year.

BBC News saw the new shoots on a rare visit to the secret National Trust centre protecting the seedlings.

Read more here about tree-lovers' efforts to preserve its future and how they raced against time on the day it was felled.

9 March 2024

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Shenzhou-18 astronaut waving in space gear

Watch Chinese space crew return to Earth

Mini the monkey

Moment BBC reporter returns tortured monkey into wild

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster fires out of its exhaust at the bottom of the rocket itself while it lands into the rocket launcher holder that it fired out of, during SpaceX Starship's fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2024

Watch: Why is the latest SpaceX rocket test a big deal?

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Curlew, brown bird with speckled wings, mid-flight

The curlew's return to Lower Lough Erne

Elephants wade through floodwaters at sanctuary

Watch: Elephants escape floodwaters in Thailand

A swan and her cygnets swim across a body of water. There is no suggestion of blue green algae in the water. It is a stock image

What is the effect of blue-green algae on wildlife?

Northern Ireland

A gold and green leopard frog peers out of some leaves

Endangered leopard frogs released into the wild

Cow and man sitting together

What is it like to cuddle a cow?

Lough Neagh's blue-green algae has returned

Lough Neagh blue-green algae back as Earl meets minister

Northern Ireland

A bronze diplodocus statue at the Natural History Museum

Walking through time at the Natural History Museum

Hurricane Beryl as seen from space

Hurricane Beryl seen from space in Caribbean

picture of hay whirlwind

'Hay devil' spotted in farmer's field

Gloucestershire

Cow

'They don't understand what farmers are doing'

Northern Ireland

Humpback whale's tail

Why scientists are using a crossbow to study whales

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Wendy Hurrell meets Martin Hojka from the Hyde Park super nursery

Behind the scenes at Hyde Park 'super nursery'

Sea lion on row boat

Malnourished sea lion jumps into rowing boat

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The pile of rusting cars and scrap metal in the quarry

Watch how volunteers clean 'cavern of lost souls'

A toad on the road near Haltwhistle, shortly before being saved

'Toad girl' recruits volunteers for road patrols

GWR Train at West Ealing

Watch: Inside London’s new battery-powered train

Picture of new Banksy tree artwork

BBC takes a close-up look at new Banksy London mural

People in high-vis jackets walk next to a car submerged in floods on the left of a split screen with a snowy road on the right

Atmospheric river dumps snow and record rain on California

The weather event has multiplied damages from the 'bomb cyclone' seen in the US north-west earlier this week.

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A man walks in front of an uprooted tree, the roots of which tower over him

Fallen trees cause widespread damage after bomb cyclone

Two people died in the storm that hit the West coast of the US and Canada overnight.

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A yellow alert for high winds gusting up to 60 mph (97km/h) covers the whole of Scotland

Weather forecast ahead of Storm Ashley

A yellow alert for high winds gusting up to 60 mph (97km/h) covers the whole of Scotland.

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The Hunter's supermoon is seen shining brightly between two buildings, as the moon shines through London's skyline on 17 OCtober

Stargazers around the world catch supermoon

The brightness of the moon would allow ancient communities to increase hunting at this time of year - hence the name.

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SpaceX Starship booster caught in mid air

Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'

It’s the first time the "chopsticks manoeuvre" has been attempted, with previous boosters landing in the ocean.

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Split screen showing weather presenter giving remote update and Hurricane Milton satellite image

Meteorologist becomes emotional giving Hurricane Milton update

The weather system has rapidly intensified into a category five storm with winds of up to 175mph (281km/h).

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Suni Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore grin as they float aboard the International Space Station

'Space is my happy place,' says stranded astronaut

Suni Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore gave an update from the ISS on their extended stay in space.

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Sarah Gillis emerges from a capsule into dark space

Watch: Key moments from first non-professional spacewalk

Isaacman said the Earth looked like a "perfect world" as he stepped out into space for the first time.

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Bow of Titanic missing section of railing

Video shows Titanic missing large section of railing

The discovery was made during a series of dives by underwater robots this summer.

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A video grab shows the northern lights (Aurora Borealis) flickering over the earth's surface with the moon setting in the background, and parts of the Internation Space Station (ISS) visible in the foreground. The Earth's curvature can be seen as it rotates

Watch: The Northern Lights seen from space

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.

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Pink and green Northern Lights hang in the sky above a car in a field

Timelapse shows Northern Lights glowing above Wisconsin

The footage reveals the light show that concurred with the Perseid meteor shower earlier this week.

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The Titan Arum plant took 12 years before it successfully flowered in the venue's Glasshouse in 2015.

Rare 'corpse flower' blooms in botanical gardens

The Titan Arum plant produces a stench that has been compared to decaying flesh or smelly socks.

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Column of fire after rocket sets off from launch pad

Moment Ariane-6 rocket blasts into space on first flight

The vehicle set off from a launchpad in French Guiana on a demonstration mission.

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High winds and waves on coast

High winds and heavy rain as Caribbean hit by hurricane

Hurricane Beryl has made landfall with floods in Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada.

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Female duck and chicks

Duckling family march to safety at Hardwick Hall

The annual duck march has been a tradition at Sedgefield’s Hardwick Hall Hotel for the past 24 years.

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Mountain lion in Los Angeles

Video captures new mountain lion spotted in Hollywood

While the giant cats are native to California, it is rare for them to make their way into the city of Los Angeles.

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Squid attacking camera

Rare footage shows deep-sea squid attacking camera

Watch video of the super-fast Dana squid getting a close-up 1km below the Pacific Ocean's surface.

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BBC Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher asks Water Minister Robbie Moore

BBC asks if quality of water for bathing really is improving

BBC environment correspondent talks to water minister about bathing water quality

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Black hole

This is what it's like inside a black hole

A black hole is a region of space with such strong gravity not even light can escape.

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BBC News Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt talks to a marine biologist about our warming oceans

'If I were a barnacle I'd be worried'

BBC News Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt talks to a marine biologist about our warming oceans

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