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Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster

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Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster

It's the biggest spill in US history, but it might not do the most ecological damage – it all depends on what kind of slick hits the coastal marshes

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Could domestication save the bluefin from extinction?

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Could domestication save the bluefin from extinction?

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Overfishing began with the Victorians

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Biodiversity: try as we might, things just keep dying

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Biodiversity: try as we might, things just keep dying

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Whale poop is vital to ocean's carbon cycle

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Whale poop is vital to ocean's carbon cycle

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Living world: The shape of life to come

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Living world: The shape of life to come

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Toxic asphalt sludge is home to hardy microbes

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Toxic asphalt sludge is home to hardy microbes

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Living world: Why the tropics are hotbeds of evolution

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Living world: Why the tropics are hotbeds of evolution

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Forensic DNA blow to commercial whaling proposals

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How interfering humans helped Amazon diversity

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How interfering humans helped Amazon diversity

Even before Europeans arrived, farmers were changing South American ecosystems with a landscaping method previously unrecognised in the region

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Recipe for rarity: fish threatened by cookbooks

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Boom time for Arctic animals

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Bugs beware: we're gunning for your genes

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Warmer seas may rob corals and rainforests of clouds

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