Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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One year ago I built an ecosystem, this happened
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How a volcanic eruption and a mysterious phenomenon known as a mast year were perfectly timed together to create a new forest in Iceland
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Closed for maintenance – how the Faroe Islands shook up the voluntourism game
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Putting the Icelandic Lupin debate under the microscope to try and find out the good and the bad about this invasive species
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Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest
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Why Ireland got mad at mud
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Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearing
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In San Francisco’s salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is seeking to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future
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Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
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Iceland is bringing back the forests razed by Vikings – recent data shows tree-cultivating efforts are paying off
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
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The strange appeal of garden lawns
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The Vikings cut them down, we want to bring them back – bringing back the ancient forests of Iceland
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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The last of the marsh Arabs
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Brown bears switch habitats in the spring so they can hunt reindeer and moose calves, researchers have said
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How our hills got golden. The floral colonization of the Americas.
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Adored and endangered: The complex world of the Japanese eel
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Excerpts from the Atlas of Poetic Botany
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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Massive oil spill sends crude onto Orange County, CA beaches
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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Rights of nature: How granting a river personhood could help protect it
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How returning lands to native tribes is helping protect nature
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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England’s largest seagrass planting programme gets underway
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Proof by underpants
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‘A poor man’s rainforest’: Why we need to stop treating soil like dirt
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How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
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The plan to revive the mammoth steppe to fight climate change
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Farms, feathers, and fins share water in California
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Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought
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The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut
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Satellite imagery shows northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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Humans control majority of freshwater ebb and flow on Earth, study finds
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