In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4°C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning?
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Denver is capturing geese from city parks to be killed and given to hungry families
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Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia
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Joel Sartore, an acclaimed National Geographic photographer, is a man on a mission. He's trying to photograph every species, every animal, bird, fish, reptile and insect, in captivity.
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Dragon quest: Australia kicks off search for possibly extinct lizard
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To drive eagles away from deadly wind turbines, researchers turn to sound
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Malaysia could lose last male Sumatran rhino
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First nesting behavior of released ʻalalā, almost two years post-release
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Seven-mile ‘bee corridor’ of wildflowers will feed London’s pollinators this summer
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Spain’s struggle with light pollution
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A Brazilian drug bust led to a parrot’s arrest. The feathered vertebrate almost foiled an undercover raid.
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The happiest cats on Earth
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Africa's rarest carnivore fights for survival in the Ethiopian highlands
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These animals have the world's biggest ears
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The monarch’s stupendous migration, dissected
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How bad is it to let your cat outside?
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Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate
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Long live the monarch
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Plants and birds need privacy online, too
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The ten best horns in the animal world: The definitive list
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Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban
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A whale’s afterlife
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Not seen for 100 years, a rare Galápagos tortoise was considered all but extinct – until now
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Pack of wolves hunt a bison
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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'If it gets me, it gets me': The town where residents live alongside polar bears
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Dogs "becoming major threat" to wildlife
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Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
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World’s oldest known wild bird is a mother again on Midway Atoll
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Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania
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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
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Analysis: Rat poison found in 85% of tested mountain lions, bobcats, fishers
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'Sonic attack' or just crickets? New analysis shows recording of 'attack' on US embassy was Caribbean wildlife
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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Who wants to shoot an elephant?
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After bloodbath, the National Zoo’s naked mole-rats finally choose their queen
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Monarch butterfly populations in the west are down an order of magnitude from last year
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The insect apocalypse is here
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Wild horse groups clash with US Bureau of Land Management over new policies
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Elephants have a zombie gene that comes back to life to fight cancer
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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Raccoons bust into Toronto woman’s home, stare her down while defiantly eating her bread
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There's no stopping Toronto's 'uber-raccoon'
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Can't bear more news? Take a break with funny wildlife furtography.
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Climate change has caused a catastrophic drop in the numbers of terns, kittiwakes and puffins
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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The super bowl of beekeeping
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Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
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Invasion of big, voracious lizards threatens US South
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Bats act as pest control at the library of the Palace of Mafra in Portugal
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