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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Where have all the insects gone? The tiny creatures on which the world depends seem to be in decline. But what does the data really say — and what is to be done?
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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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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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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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