Saving the sea cows of Vanuatu. There’s still hope for “the friendliest ‘fish’ in the water.”
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Ring the fish doorbell!
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One year ago we created a reef - now it's full of life
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Nearly 70% of Swedish territory is covered by forests, with half belonging to the private sector – what does that mean for the nation's economic and environmental ambitions
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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Snorkeling where Florida Springs meet a tannic river
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TIL there's a region in northeastern India (Mawsynram) that receives around 11,872mm (467.4 in) of rain each year
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The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost laboratory in Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic
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This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a signal of what will be coming to many more ecosystems thanks to human interference
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Swedish study finds surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals
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'Sobering statistic:' paper claims one-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk
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A new wave of positive-impact experiences in northern Finland is finally allowing the Sámi to benefit from the tourism boom
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
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Underwater ‘doorbell’ helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida
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The impact of sand mining - current rates predicted to be unsustainable
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Keystone molecules: a new, chemical view of ecosystems
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Coastal Peregrine falcons’ mysterious decline
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Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm
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For more than twenty years, scientists have followed polar bears in Norway's Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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Global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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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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