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Life

COP15: What to expect at the biggest biodiversity summit in a decade

After a two-year delay, the COP15 summit will convene in Montreal to hammer out an agreement to address the biodiversity crisis

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This is Lake Powell from the air in 2015 http://michaelfriberg.com/killing-the-colorado/

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Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we can do about it

Features

Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

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Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

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Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

Humans

Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

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Humans

What will a population of 8 billion people mean for us and the planet?

Insight

An aerial view shows the brine pools and processing areas of the Soquimich (SQM) lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat, the world's second largest salt flat and the largest lithium deposit currently in production, with over a quarter of the world's known reserves, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, January 10, 2013. SQM fertilizer company has fired its chief executive after it became embroiled in an election campaign financing scandal that has rocked the Chilean establishment, tainting business leaders and politicians with close links to the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Picture taken January 10, 2013. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT POLITICS) - GM1EB3I04EU01

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Drought, not lithium mining, is drying out Chile's largest salt flat

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Environment

Dismissing environmentalists with an 'anti-growth' label is wrong

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COP27: Causes for concern, and hope, ahead of the big climate summit

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D9GGF5 Fleet of Navy ships transit the Arabian Sea.

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The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War review: US military emissions

Culture

Awaiting clearance

Environment

The Blaze (En Plein Feu) review: A taut eco-thriller about a wildfire

The wildfire that swept across Europe this summer resonates through Quentin Reynaud’s The Blaze, a tense, subtly crafted eco-thriller in which a father and son struggle to escape from a local outbreak

Culture

Environment

Study your local pond to help track algal growth around the world

Regulars

Environment

The Climate Book review: An essential guide to a better world

Culture

Environment

Nord Stream leak may have been largest methane emission ever recorded

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Humans

I am planning my wife's woodland burial, but green funerals are costly

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