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Corals on old North Sea oil rigs could help natural reefs recover

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Corals on old North Sea oil rigs could help natural reefs recover

Not only are deep-sea coral ecosystems thriving on oil and gas rigs in the North Sea, their larvae may be helping repopulate damaged natural reefs

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Alien grass is making California wildfires three times as frequent

Environment

Alien grass is making California wildfires three times as frequent

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bees

Life

Buzz: A beautiful book shows why modern bees are hippy wasps at heart

Culture

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Earth Overshoot Day – what to make of this moment of reckoning?

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Biosphere 2

Life

What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?

Features

A pack of cyclists pass bare trees in the Belgian countryside

Environment

Cycling race footage highlights climate change effects on trees

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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

Life

When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

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We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

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We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

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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

The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold

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A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

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Earth

Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Life

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

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Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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