Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms
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Landslides, a stranded town and two deaths so far reported as extreme weather sweeps across southern Norway
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Heat and smoke are smothering most of the US, putting lives at risk
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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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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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives – and how we can help them
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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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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes
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Pakistan's deadly floods have created a 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images show
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules
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'Inexcusable': Amazon under fire after warehouse collapse kills at least six
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Why do manatees die when power plants shut down?
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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Wisconsin hunters kill over 200 wolves in less than three days
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Body found in Norwegian landslide – rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for ten people missing in a hillside collapse
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Miserable Christmas Day: Typhoon Phanfone kills at least sixteen in Philippines
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NSW fires destroy at least 150 homes, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast communities under bushfire threat in Qld
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Bahamas death toll from Hurricane Dorian reaches thirty, with thousands still missing; 70,000 people in need of food, water or shelter; and estimated $7 billion in damage
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Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
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Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
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Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland
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Heavy rain triggers series of landslides in Norway – at least one person is presumed dead and many others unaccounted for
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British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland
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Death and broken livelihoods: Farmers and wildfires in British Columbia
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India heatwave: Rain brings respite for some but death toll rises
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People left weakened and devastated by California's deadliest wildfire keep dying as hospitals remain overwhelmed
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Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate
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Eleven dead as Brazil's largest city flooded
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Tornadoes in the Southeast are getting worse -- and they're often the deadliest
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Help arrives at areas struck by Sunda Strait tsunami, while death toll reaches 168
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Flash floods and landslides kill at least twenty-seven on Indonesian island of Sumatra
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At least forty-eight killed after series of quakes and a tsunami hit Indonesia
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Storm Ali: Two killed as high winds batter UK
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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India monsoon floods 'kill 164' in Kerala
8 votes