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Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution

Earth

Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution

We are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, heating the planet, but some plants are using the excess carbon dioxide to make more flowers

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Shark's open mouth

Life

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

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Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem

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Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem

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These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

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These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

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Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

Earth

Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

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Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground

Earth

Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground

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Earth from space

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Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth

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cartoon butcher

Life

Living on the veg: Should we all go vegan?

Features

Australia's A$60 million plan for Great Barrier Reef won't work

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Australia's A$60 million plan for Great Barrier Reef won't work

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Tsunami warning for US west coast after magnitude-7.9 earthquake

Humans

Tsunami warning for US west coast after magnitude-7.9 earthquake

A tsunami alert was issued for the US west coast, and then cancelled, after a major earthquake struck at sea off the coast of Alaska

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Technology

Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground

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Earth

Ruptured Tibetan glaciers triggered massive speedy avalanches

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Earth

Cute cats the size of kittens are seeing their homes destroyed

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Humans

Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times

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