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How summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the…
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Life lessons from beekeepers – stop mowing the lawn, don’t pave the driveway and get used to bugs in your salad
This is important because, alongside COVID, we are also facing a global climate and biodiversity crisis. Siobhan Maderson The Conversation…
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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age
Roughly one in every 50 species of plant and vertebrate land animal lives there and nowhere else. Oliver Wilson The…
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Australia saves Barrier Reef World Heritage status, cops climate deadline
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) controls World Heritage listings and on Friday night a committee of…
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Europe’s catastrophic flooding was forecast well in advance – what went so wrong?
Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Hannah Cloke The Conversation Communities devastated… Europe’s catastrophic flooding …
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Record number of manatees die in Florida as food source dries up
More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida’s recorded history, primarily from starvation due…
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‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
‘The shore doesn’t usually crunch when you walk’ Leyland Cecco The Guardian More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada’s…
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Reforesting Europe would increase rainfall – new research
There are good reasons for this. Authors The Conversation Multiple studies have shown that as well as trees being a…
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Friday essay: trees have many stories to tell.
As tree scientist, I am fascinated by the magnificent biology of trees. I also find it enthralling and encouraging that…
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We discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab (and named it after David Attenborough)
But the fossil record shows that hundreds of millions of years ago they came in a huge range of shapes…
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Friday essay: a rare bird — how Europeans got the black swan so wrong
The official emblem of Western Australia, depicted in the state flag and coat-of-arms, it decorates several public buildings. David Haworth…
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People’s odds of loneliness could fall by up to half if cities hit 30% green space targets
Our longitudinal study, just published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, finds adults in neighbourhoods where at least 30% of…
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‘Dark’ ships off Argentina ring alarms over possible illegal fishing
But there’s a similar scenario playing out off the coast of Argentina: each year, hundreds of foreign-owned vessels are also…
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China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders from town to town, causing over $1 million in damage
Asian elephants are native to the south-western province of Yunnan, but one herd has migrated unusually far northward this year,…
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Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds
Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from China, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in…
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Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature
But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding out about people’s relationships with the natural…
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