Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
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Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere
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With CO2 levels rising, world’s drylands are turning green
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Turning brownfields to blooming meadows, with the help of fungi
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Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
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Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
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Iberian lynx no longer endangered after numbers improve in Spain and Portugal
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Iceland wants to switch up its tourism tax to protect nature – and fight overtourism
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A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come. The arrival of Brood XIX and Brood XIII will send shockwaves through forest food webs.
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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Twenty minutes of good news around the globe
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Illegal tin mining due to smart phone demand tied to deadly crocodile attacks
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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Grizzly bears will be returning to the Cascade mountain range
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Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
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Scientists discover hundreds of unique species in Africa’s newest ecoregion
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Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil
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The fish doorbell
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Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
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Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help
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Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it's spreading
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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Sweden has vast old growth forests – but they are being chopped down faster than the Amazon
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Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
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Coywolves are prospering in Eastern North America
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Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
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Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand as climate change and habitat loss disrupt food chains and lead to starvation
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How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest after fire
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Hungry sea otters play a role in coastline protection
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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A wolf killed EU president Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia's rare earths stronghold
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
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As the sun falls over a vast Danish marshland, more than a million starlings undulate in mesmerising murmurations – but how they do it remains mysterious
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Sound maps that predict poachers' movements improve government deterrence and response
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Imagining a reverse kibbutz
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Ephemeral pools of Moab - The nature and creatures of water pan/potholes with retired United States Geological Survey scientist Tim Graham
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US government court filing promises to spend $1 billion to help depleted salmon populations recover
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The site of a mining town on Svalbard is now being returned to nature in one of Norway's biggest-ever restoration projects
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Our strange plan to transform this industrial firth: oysters
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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Our search for Scotland's lost highland trees
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Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia
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