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Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook?

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Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook?

Eco-offsetting – creating habitats to replace ones lost to development – can save wildlife, but may instead help business trump nature, says Fred Pearce

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Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood

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Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood

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Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells

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Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells

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Colorado wildfire leaves landscape of destruction

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Colorado wildfire leaves landscape of destruction

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Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter

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Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter

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Beautiful freak in Ecuador's life raft of the frogs

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Beautiful freak in Ecuador's life raft of the frogs

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Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy

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Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy

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How the cold war spawned the environmental movement

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How the cold war spawned the environmental movement

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Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener

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Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is stimulating photosynthesis and boosting Earth's plant cover – but the long-term consequences remain unclear

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Sunflower mirrors power California's desert farm

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Battle Los Angeles: the fight to stop urban fracking

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Silent forests are bad news for the trees

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Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat

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