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Drones plus AI help to spot sick trees and plants in time

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Drones plus AI help to spot sick trees and plants in time

Drones fitted with multispectral cameras are scanning forests for beetle attack, and orchards and vineyards for signs of disease before it’s too late

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Plastic in Space

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Salvaged plastics imitate bizarre and beautiful sea life

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Whale swimming past plastic

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Plastic waste is a problem – but some solutions are even worse

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Biodegradable plastic: Waste that eats itself

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Biodegradable plastic: Waste that eats itself

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plastic bags

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Fixing planet plastic: How we'll really solve our waste problem

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Fertiliser feeds us but trashes the climate – now there's a fix

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Fertiliser feeds us but trashes the climate – now there's a fix

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Hawaii’s erupting volcano may blast out ‘10-tonne cannonballs’

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Hawaii’s erupting volcano may blast out ‘10-tonne cannonballs’

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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents

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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents

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Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought

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Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought

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Rich nations restore their own forests but trash those elsewhere

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Rich nations restore their own forests but trash those elsewhere

As countries get richer, they start replanting their forests – but this is not a big environmental gain because they “export” the deforestation to poor countries

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We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much

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A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

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It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect

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China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

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