Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement.
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
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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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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year
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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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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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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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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
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Iberian lynx no longer endangered after numbers improve in Spain and Portugal
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French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than twenty to thirty years ago, study shows
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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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World's oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark – posthumous discovery gives conservationists hope for the mammals' future preservation
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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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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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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