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Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions

Researchers estimate that plants transfer more than 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year to mycorrhizal fungi, which grow around their roots

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Glass Mountains, situated in the north tip of the Chihuahuan Desert, as seen from Alpine, Texas. - Image ID: R97NY1 (RF)

Environment

US desert grassland collapse is linked to changes in the Pacific Ocean

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Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans and seas. Zooplankton.

Environment

Geoengineering the seas could be catastrophic for marine life

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Rubbish pulled from the great Pacific garbage patch

Environment

Great Pacific Garbage Patch hosts stable community of coastal animals

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Life

Ecologists are infecting trees with fungi to make them age prematurely

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Urban Jungle review: The new challenge of cities teeming with life

Life

Urban Jungle review: The new challenge of cities teeming with life

Culture

A jewel damselfish

Life

Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with invasive rats

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Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

Life

Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

Features

Logged forest

Environment

Tropical forests ravaged by logging can still have thriving ecosystems

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A gliding seed from a Javan cucumber

Technology

Gliding sensors inspired by floating seeds will biodegrade after use

A biodegradable glider based on the seeds of the Javan cucumber, which float for long distances, could be used to monitor the environment without leaving polluting e-waste

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Environment

Mussel numbers in the river Thames have dropped by up to 99 per cent

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Environment

Making Australia’s native animals poisonous could curb feral cats

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Life

Camera trap images reveal the hidden wildlife of New York City

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Life

Ecological toll of Japan's switch to farming revealed by 1850s maps

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