Nature
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‘Unprecedented’: How bird flu became an animal pandemic
In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly. India Bourke ΒΒΨ The tips of…
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These photos show how a warmer climate is damaging Earth’s waters
In her new book, Entropy, photographer Diane Tuft explores the damage that a warmer climate will have on bodies of water.…
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‘I want to erase my own footprint’: The women looking after an island paradise
She knows the loss of trees reduces oxygen and that dumped garbage kills the sea turtles that keep the ocean…
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What is Earth Day, when is it and what has it achieved?
The event began in 1970 in the United States, and is now marked around the world. Mark Poynting & Maddie…
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‘Worst I Have Seen’: 75% of Great Barrier Reef Suffers Coral Bleaching
“We cannot expect to save the Great Barrier Reef and be opening new fossil fuel developments.” Brett Wilkins Common Dreams…
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Thanks to termite tents, California is top U.S. emitter of a planet-warming pesticide
Despite its aggressive reputation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, California releases more of a climate-warming pesticide than all other states…
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Ocean forests: how ‘floating’ mangroves could provide a broad range of ecological and social benefits
The 2022 report “The State of the World’s Mangroves” estimates that since 1996, 5,245 square kilometers of mangroves have been lost…
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Ex-Obama officials rue missed chances on climate action
In oral histories, senior Democrats recounted how climate legislation took a back seat to President Barack Obama’s signature health care…
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Why we can’t overlook people in addressing climate change
As an old king from the floodplains of the Kwando River in Angola used to say, “A landscape without people…
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Star dune: Scientists solve mystery behind Earth’s largest desert sands
Star dunes – or pyramid dunes – are named after their distinctive shapes and reach hundreds of metres in height.…
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Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations
The environment minister Susana Muhamad says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisis Patrick Greenfield The Guardian The…
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Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea
Researchers have discovered a 33,000-foot-wide (10 kilometers) underwater canyon that was carved out of the Mediterranean seabed shortly before the…
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Mining the depths: Norway’s deep-sea exploitation could put it in environmental and legal murky waters
Now it is leading into another area, leveraging its long legacy of offshore oil and gas production into developing deep-sea…
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Energy transition: Charting a fair course for fishing fleets
The fishing industry, reliant on fossil fuels and vulnerable to climate change, needs to shift to alternative energy – but…
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Amazon’s record drought driven by climate change
It was the main driver of the Amazon rainforest’s worst drought in at least half a century, according to a…
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The UK environmental protections dropped since Brexit
The scale of the law changes means environmental legislation in the UK is facing death by a thousand cuts Helena…
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