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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know

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Get closer to death to make the most of life

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What we're doing now will make the ocean completely unliveable

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What we're doing now will make the ocean completely unliveable

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Planting trees could mop up ten years’ worth of greenhouse gases

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Planting trees could mop up ten years’ worth of greenhouse gases

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Pallbearers carry the casket of Jeff Miller, 53, to his green burial site at the Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster, South Carolina

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Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Aerial view of a road cutting through a forest

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A third of animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests

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Colorado river

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Rivers and forests need the same legal rights we grant to people

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Bird of prey

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People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it

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Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in

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Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in

126 countries have signed up to cross-border protection measures to conserve whale sharks and many other endangered migratory species

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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Steep decline of wasps and other flying nasties is a bad sign

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Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

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Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award

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