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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

Earth

Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

An assessment of Earth’s biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food

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broccoli farm

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Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant's cries for help

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A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out

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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out

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Shark's open mouth

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Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

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Members of the European Parliament, including German co-president of the Greens parliamentary group, Ska Keller (C), take part in a voting session on the 'Conservation of fishery resources and protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures' at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 16, 2018

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Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Humans

Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times

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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars

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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars

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The Great Barrier Reef

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'Super-spreader' coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef

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Variegated green crop circles covering what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas

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If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

Organic food production requires more land, but a study claims cutting meat eating and food waste will solve this problem. It won’t

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Humans

Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife

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Life

A third of animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Evolution’s rules mean life on Earth isn’t that varied after all

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