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A plane flies over the icey Antarctic landscape

Earth

Huge never-before-seen lake spotted hiding under Antarctic ice

The subglacial lake is second in size only to Lake Vostok, but much nearer to research stations, making it easier to hunt there for new life forms

Arjen Hoekstra

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

Dried out river in Greece

Earth

A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

A group of men and women mountain climbing on the Mer de Glace, France, circa 1870

Earth

Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

Paris climate

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Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

Forest in Basel, Switzerland

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Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

Water drips into the sea from an ice shelf

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Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather

A black and white ruffed lemur stares at the camera from a tree

Environment

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

The financial district near Canary Wharf in London

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Capitalism must be re-engineered if we want a low-carbon world

Ruth Gates

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I’m creating supercharged corals to beat climate change

By giving evolution a helping hand, Ruth Gates aims to produce corals tough enough to survive in increasingly hostile oceans

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Anger as coal mine that could damage Great Barrier Reef approved

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Colonise Mars as humanity’s plan B? It’s a dangerous fantasy

Earth

Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Unexpected Antarctic melt could trigger 2-metre sea level rise