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How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years – and this may be why we evolved big brains

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seed sowing

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To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good

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coral reef

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Coral Whisperers review – How global warming is changing researchers

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

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An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

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An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

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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

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

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

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Great Barrier Reef

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Our grandchildren may never see the Great Barrier Reef recover

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We need hope, not eulogies, for the Great Barrier Reef

Writing obituaries for the world’s greatest coral reef is attention-grabbing but scientifically wrong and ethically irresponsible

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

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Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars

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Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it

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