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Life

Is life on Earth really at risk? The truth about the extinction crisis

Earth’s biodiversity isn’t just beautiful, it ensures human survival. But to protect nature’s bounty we first need to know exactly how we’re harming it

Features

A close-up of a hedgehog

Environment

Chris Packham: 'Let's stop sleepwalking towards mass extinction'

Comment

Hybrid embryos made to save the doomed northern white rhino

Environment

Hybrid embryos made to save the doomed northern white rhino

News

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

Earth

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

Earth

Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

News

EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

Earth

EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

News

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

News

Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

Earth

Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

News

Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

Earth

Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

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Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat

Earth

Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat

Palm oil consumption in the EU jumped by 7 per cent in 2017 because it is increasingly used as a biofuel – driving the destruction of orangutans’ habitat

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Earth

Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax

News

Life

In big cities even the fish are always rushing around the place

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Life

Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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Earth

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

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