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Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage

Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage

3 April 2018

Governments are dithering over whether to limit climate change to 1.5°C or 2°C, but it seems the stricter target would avoid food shortages and major economic losses
A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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

7 March 2018

Britain’s native red squirrels have been retreating for decades in the face of invasive grey squirrels, but predators called pine martens could help save them

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