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CT2DTA Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, Caribbean Sea, Dominica

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51��s want to restore the oceans with artificial whale poo

Experiments will soon explore ways to emulate the fertilising effect of whale waste, which fuels blooms of algae that feed fish and lock away carbon

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Great barrier reef

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The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

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Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

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Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

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Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

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The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes

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The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes

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Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

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Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents

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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males

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