Report reveals world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk to create a toxic desert
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
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Piece of fossilised fish vomit has been found in Denmark – unusual discovery dated to the end of the Cretaceous period sixty-six million years ago
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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The Cascade Mountains in the west of the United States have been hiding large quantities of fresh water
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Rewilding - the rogue conservation efforts to reintroduce fauna to Europe
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Sweden begins wolf hunt – five entire families can be killed, totalling thirty wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
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‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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As warmer Finnish winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals use to raise their young, humans are giving them a helping hand
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Rare, widespread snowfall in Taklamakan Desert - China
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Will China’s “green Great Wall” save it from encroaching sands?
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Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Grímsey, set some 40km off Iceland's northern coast, is home to one of Europe's most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population
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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in Scotland rewilding project
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Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals – the WWF is suing the state in a bid to halt exploration
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How an English castle became a stork magnet
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Danish lawmakers have agreed to plant one billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into natural habitats over the next two decades
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Inside the successful, decades-long effort to protect the Humboldt Archipelago in Chile
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Plants really do 'scream'. We've simply never heard them until now.
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Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores
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We've been helping rewild this quarry for a few years now and the transformation has been wonderful to witness
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Historic US ship could soon become the world's largest artificial reef
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Native American tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history
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Parts of the Sahara Desert are turning green amid an influx of heavy rainfall
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Malaysian Palm Oil Council urges EU to delay implementation of deforestation law
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Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.
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Finland's Linnunsuo wetland used to be a barren "moonscape" – local fishing communities have transformed it into a biodiverse haven and an important carbon sink
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When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
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Bat loss linked to death of human infants
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Personally protecting a piece of prairie
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Giant 'living tractors', water buffalo are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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Simulating Africa for 100 days
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Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water company to shut down California pipeline
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The ghosts of the Green Sahara
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IKEA has been accused of contributing to the rapid deterioration of Romania's biologically rich forests – campaigners say suppliers benefitting from corrupt environment in the country
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Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon
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How soon might the Atlantic Ocean break?
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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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