Inside the successful, decades-long effort to protect the Humboldt Archipelago in Chile
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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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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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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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Landmark study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
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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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Scientists discover hundreds of unique species in Africa’s newest ecoregion
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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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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest after fire
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Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply
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Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area
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Ecuador prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ vote to stop oil drilling
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What’s the real cost of mezcal?
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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This woman wants to destroy your lawn, and replace it with something better
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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In Finland, where forests cover around 75% of land, the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy has sparked outrage in the forestry industry, as well as the government
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Where to get interesting garden seeds?
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These seed-firing drones can plant 40,000 trees every day
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Clear-cutting has become a political issue after the EU said the technique should be approached with caution, and called for Sweden to protect more of its forests
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‘A poor man’s rainforest’: Why we need to stop treating soil like dirt
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Forests cover 70% of Sweden, but many argue the model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity
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The plan to revive the mammoth steppe to fight climate change
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Restoring farmland could drastically slow extinctions, fight climate change
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Reviving Ozark cuisine through seeds
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
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Cultivating biodiversity at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
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New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
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Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
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The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
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In France, a bloody WWI battlefield has become a wildlife refuge
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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Biodiversity is the highest on Indigenous-managed lands
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With 147 million dead trees, Californians brace for fire
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Brad goes farming in Hawaii | It's Alive
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Are there potential downsides of going to 100% renewable energy?
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A whale’s afterlife
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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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Dan Barber: 'Twenty years from now you’ll be eating fast food crickets'
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Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life
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