From sea to table to sea: How recycled oyster shells are restoring the Alabama coast
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Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion
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Researchers discover stunning ecological changes after reintroducing wolves to national park: young Aspens are growing again
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Quebecer breaks Guinness world record, planting more than 23K trees in 24 hours
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In Norway's far north, members of the Sámi minority and environmental activists are trying to block the construction of a copper mine
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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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Welcome to the Great Bear Sea: After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska
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Not every day that Father Christmas briefs his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30°C for days on end
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In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway's unique coastal ecosystem
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A passage of water in the North Sea known as the Skagerrak is a hotspot for young Greenland sharks, according to a new study. But what are the elusive animals doing there?
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Why America built a forest from Canada to Texas
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We are setting out to rewild an Icelandic wetland in a complex project involving birds, freshwater habitats and large areas of degraded peatland
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Beaver activists claim they are 'doing God's work'
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One man's vision brought water back to a drought-ridden Ecuadorian town. He used a map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon.
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New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air
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Decades of searching and a chance discovery: Why finding Leadbeater’s possum in New South Wales is such big news
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Saving the sea cows of Vanuatu. There’s still hope for “the friendliest ‘fish’ in the water.”
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Ring the fish doorbell!
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One year ago we created a reef - now it's full of life
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Nearly 70% of Swedish territory is covered by forests, with half belonging to the private sector – what does that mean for the nation's economic and environmental ambitions
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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Snorkeling where Florida Springs meet a tannic river
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TIL there's a region in northeastern India (Mawsynram) that receives around 11,872mm (467.4 in) of rain each year
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The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost laboratory in Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic
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This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a signal of what will be coming to many more ecosystems thanks to human interference
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Swedish study finds surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals
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'Sobering statistic:' paper claims one-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
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Underwater ‘doorbell’ helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida
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The impact of sand mining - current rates predicted to be unsustainable
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Coastal Peregrine falcons’ mysterious decline
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Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm
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For more than twenty years, scientists have followed polar bears in Norway's Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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Global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast
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Report reveals world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk to create a toxic desert
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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The Cascade Mountains in the west of the United States have been hiding large quantities of fresh water
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Rewilding - the rogue conservation efforts to reintroduce fauna to Europe
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Sweden begins wolf hunt – five entire families can be killed, totalling thirty wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
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‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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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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Rare, widespread snowfall in Taklamakan Desert - China
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Will China’s “green Great Wall” save it from encroaching sands?
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Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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