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dead porpoise

Life

China’s fancy for ‘aquatic cocaine’ could wipe out rare porpoise

Illegal trade in the swim bladder of the totoaba fish fuels fishing practices that may drive the critically endangered vaquita to extinction

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Arctic summer sea ice melts to second lowest level ever recorded

Earth

Arctic summer sea ice melts to second lowest level ever recorded

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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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water

Health

Our water is full of drugs and we don't know their effects

Insight

More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish

Earth

More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish

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Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests

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Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests

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Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide

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Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide

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A map showing an earthquake thought to be the result of a nuclear test in North Korea

Earth

North Korea’s largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity

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Misty forest

Earth

Paradise lost: we’ve destroyed most of the world’s wilderness

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workers watering tree nursery

Earth

A wall of trees across the Sahara is cool – but we don't need it

The African Union is planning an 8000 kilometre stretch of trees across the entire continent, but the Great Green Wall isn't the best way to halt desertification

Insight

Earth

Ocean warming is already spreading diseases and killing corals

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Earth

Where will we find the first telltale signs of the Anthropocene?

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Earth

Court rules in favour of Queensland mega-mine

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Life

How water shortages flow into collaboration not war

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