The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California tribes' way of life
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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‘We felt so betrayed’: Indigenous tribe continues activism after decision excluding Morro Bay from US marine sanctuary
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Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
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Norway wants to begin deep sea mining in the Arctic – here is why it's a bad idea
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Iceland is turning to taxes to reduce the impact exponential growth in tourism has on its pristine wilderness
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Respect laws of nature by moving to a circular economy
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Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C
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Human alteration of the global floodplains 1992-2019
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Why does Norway want to extract seabed minerals – an explainer
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How deep-sea mining for EV materials could wipe out tuna populations
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Why (some) fireflies are going extinct
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Climate change is changing the ocean’s color
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Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
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Melbourne plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species, study finds
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An underground network of environmentalists are beaver bombing local rivers in some countries in Europe
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As offshore wind based energy production ramps up, scientists flag potential impacts, costs and benefits
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Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area
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Ecuador prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ vote to stop oil drilling
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Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents
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Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland. Introducing more beavers could increase drought resilience and mitigate fires.
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Outrage as Alaska's Attorney-General asks US Supreme Court to reverse Environmental Protection Agency's Pebble Mine veto
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Drones are showing us sharks like never before
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Analysis: Pollution time bombs — contaminated wetlands are ticking towards peat ignition
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The secret life of deep sea vents
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100 days ago I built a terrarium. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem with scorpions, jumping spiders, millipedes and so much more.
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Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out.
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
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Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
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How Big Beef is fueling the Amazon's destruction
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Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
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How US Supreme Court’s Environmental Protection Agency ruling might affect wetlands, clean water
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Iceland is a strange place to plant trees, but for us it is one of the most logical places to try and bring back forests
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Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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Producers of the latest Mission: Impossible film have dropped their attempt to obtain permission for dozens of helicopter landings on Svalbard
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Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse - Ultima Online, which just turned twenty-five, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds
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100 days ago I built a terrarium and documented my little chunk of the desert. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem.
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Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages
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Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
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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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