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Designing for microscopic life in the great indoors

Life

Designing for microscopic life in the great indoors

It's time we start thinking about the microbes that live on – and in – our buildings and gadgets, says ecologist and engineer Jessica Green

Opinion

Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

Earth

Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

Regulars

Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook?

Earth

Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook?

Comment

Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

Earth

Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

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Beavers are born to bite wood, not people

Earth

Beavers are born to bite wood, not people

Comment

Silent forests are bad news for the trees

Life

Silent forests are bad news for the trees

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Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat

Life

Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat

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Earth

Developing a cartography of fear

Opinion

Scared to death: How intimidation changes ecosystems

Earth

Scared to death: How intimidation changes ecosystems

Features

Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife

Earth

Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife

The UK's wildlife isn't faring too well, but lost and new species of wild insects and plants are appearing there and elsewhere in Europe

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Earth

New Red List to focus on ecosystems rather than species

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Life

The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy

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Life

Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail

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Earth

Bees need Europe's pesticide ban, whatever the UK says

Comment

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