Drones are showing us sharks like never before
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Analysis: Pollution time bombs — Contaminated wetlands are ticking towards peat ignition
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The secret life of deep sea vents
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100 days ago I built a terrarium. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem with scorpions, jumping spiders, millipedes and so much more.
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Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out.
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
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Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
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How Big Beef is fueling the Amazon's destruction
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Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
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How US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling might affect wetlands, clean water
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Iceland is a strange place to plant trees, but for us it is one of the most logical places to try and bring back forests
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Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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Producers of the latest Mission: Impossible film have dropped their attempt to obtain permission for dozens of helicopter landings on Svalbard
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Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse - Ultima Online, which just turned 25, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds
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100 days ago I built a terrarium and documented my little chunk of the desert. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem.
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Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages
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Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
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Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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One year ago I built an ecosystem, this happened
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How a volcanic eruption and a mysterious phenomenon known as a mast year were perfectly timed together to create a new forest in Iceland
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Closed for maintenance – how the Faroe Islands shook up the voluntourism game
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Putting the Icelandic Lupin debate under the microscope to try and find out the good and the bad about this invasive species
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Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest
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Why Ireland got mad at mud
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Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearing
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In San Francisco’s salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is seeking to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future
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Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
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Iceland is bringing back the forests razed by Vikings – recent data shows tree-cultivating efforts are paying off
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
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The strange appeal of garden lawns
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The Vikings cut them down, we want to bring them back – bringing back the ancient forests of Iceland
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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The last of the marsh Arabs
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Brown bears switch habitats in the spring so they can hunt reindeer and moose calves, researchers have said
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How our hills got golden. The floral colonization of the Americas.
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