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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

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Wombats are the only animals whose poop is a cube. Here’s how they do it.

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Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year’s 2024 winners bring captivating creatures into view

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Why is blue the rarest colour in nature?

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Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

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Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

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Why birdsong matters more than you think

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Why bird feet don’t freeze in cold

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Why are trees still standing next to burned-out buildings in Los Angeles? The answer is simple

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Why are most female raptors larger than males?

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Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist

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Whooping cranes were almost extinct — until Canadian ornithologist George Archibald learned to dance with them

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While you sleep, these insects are working hard on the night shift to keep our environment healthy

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What is a unit of nature? New framework highlights challenges in biodiversity credit markets

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Week in wildlife in pictures: happy elephants, a tiny koala and baboons taking liberties

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Week in wildlife in pictures: a very lost penguin, cloned baby ferrets and a mystery mollusc

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Week in wildlife in pictures: a diva beaver, 100 hungry raccoons and the fattest bear

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We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

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Wasps are everywhere this summer in Alberta. Extreme heat and dry conditions are to blame

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Want to get a prescription for nature access in Canada? Here’s how it works

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Virtual Field Trips at the American Museum of Natural History

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Unexpected Twist Saved Iberian Lynx From Extinction, Ancient DNA Reveals

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Ukrainian artist Nataliia Kononova finds solace in painting Ottawa’s Hog’s Back Falls

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Twin grizzly yearlings shot on Lil’wat reserve

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Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change

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Thousands of kilometres from the battlefield, these Ukrainian veterans are finding solace in the Canadian woods

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This trio of eagles — 1 female and 2 males — are raising a family together

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This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains

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The secret lives of fish-eating, beaver-ambushing wolves

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The Radioactive Wolves of Chernobyl

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The power of one: Study finds solitary carnivores outkill group hunters

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The only species of venomous mammal in North America calls Ontario home

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The Next Generation of Indigenous Leaders

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The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer

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The Limits of Math: Study Shows Forests Are More Complex Than Thought

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The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

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The good bear: Co-existence on Yukon’s Klukshu River

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The Fall And Rise Of A Fearless Fox

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The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider

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The birds that fear death

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The biodiversity jukebox: How sound can boost beneficial soil microbes to heal nature

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The Billion Year Partnership Between Plants And Fungi

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The best science and nature books of 2024

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The ‘alpha male’? It’s just a regular dad, says local expert busting wolf myths

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Tasmanian tiger is back from the dead

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Tadpoles steal show in wildlife photography contest

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Study Challenges the Idea of Innate Morality

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Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005)

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Some birds may use ‘mental time travel,’ study finds

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Slime fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days

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Sharks Found Inside An Active Volcano — Alive

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Scientists repurpose stargazing tools to protect endangered species

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Scientists mystified by massive structures found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean

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Scientists ‘speechless’ at Arctic fox’s epic trek

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Sask. ranchers stunned as beaver herds 150 cattle

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Researchers find evidence that bumblebees make the same memory errors as humans

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Rare species of Dracula ant snaps up record for world’s fastest animal movement

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Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

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Pursuing the void: The discovery of Canada’s new longest cave system

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Power of aesthetic species on social media boosts wildlife conservation efforts, say experts

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Pine trees send chemical warning to each other when pine beetles attack

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Pigeon Politics: Pigeons Vote On Leaders With Their Wings

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No Humans Born In The 1800s Are Still Alive, But These 3 ‘Ultra Surviving’ Animals Are—Here’s Their Story

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Nature’s Secret: Why Honey Bees Are Better Politicians Than Humans

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Move aside, moose — a new study has found the most distinct animals in Canada

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Move along moose: Study reveals the ‘most Canadian’ animals

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Mountain goat kills attacking grizzly bear

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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains

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Meet the skeleton-eating bird that dyes itself the colour of blood

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Meant to protect the land from wildfires, fire retardant could be doing damage of its own

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Many species reach their heat limits at similar temperatures, leaving ecosystems at risk of sudden climate-driven collapse – new study

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Manatee mum and calf charm wildlife photo judges

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Magnetic displacement experiment challenges long-held theories on how migratory birds navigate

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Magic moment: Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen

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Los Angeles Is Starring in an All-Too-Real Disaster Story

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Less than 7 mm in length, this Atlantic Rainforest flea toad is the second-smallest vertebrate described in the world

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Killer Whales Hunt Moose For Prey In This Region—A Biologist Highlights One Of Nature’s Most Unique Interactions

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Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology

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Jane Goodall has been famous for decades. At 90, the primatologist still isn’t used to it

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Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

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Insect and spider biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across ecosystems, large-scale study shows

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Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

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If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow

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I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life

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Humpback whales make custom fishing nets — out of bubbles

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How trees secretly talk to each other in the forest

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How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences – podcast

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How do birds communicate? Network science models are opening up new possibilities for experts

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How Diverse Personalities Help Animals Survive

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How Bringing Back Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park Would Impact Earth’s Ecosystem Explained By Expert

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How Billy met Molly – the orphaned otter who is now part of the family

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How bighorn sheep use crowdsourcing to find food on the hoof

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How a mountain lion made a home in a Los Angeles neighbourhood

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How 17 wild New York turkeys took over Vermont

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Historic forestry deal

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Here are our best wildlife photos from 2024

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Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say

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Heat waves are damaging beetle sperm, and that could be bad news for the entire planet

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Grizzly bear adopts her mom’s abandoned cub in Kananaskis Country

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Grizzlies act as nature’s gardeners for huckleberries to reshape Rocky Mountain ecosystems

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Great Bear Rainforest

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Golf courses can be safe havens for wildlife and beacons of biodiversity

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Globe Climate: A site for Canada’s nuclear waste

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Get ‘inspidered’ – from fear of spiders to fascination

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Freeze frame: Calgary photographer Angela Boehm captures fragile winter wonderland in new book

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Foxes encourage boreal forest growth

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Five animals that behave differently in moonlight

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Fighting snow leopards clinch top spot in the prestigious Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 competition

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Family reunion? 13 grizzly bears gather in Montana

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Fallen ancient civilizations show us why we must not ignore climate warnings

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Fact Check: The Truth About Posts Claiming an ‘Albino Brown Bear’ Was Mistaken for a Polar Bear and Airlifted to the Arctic

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Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US.

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Europe’s big carnivores are on the rise – but can we live with bears next door?

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Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them

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Elephants may have names for each other that humans don’t know, study finds

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Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people

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Coyote or coywolf: What’s in a name?

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Cougar Travels 1,000 Miles East in One of the Longest Recorded Treks

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Canadian wins prestigious wildlife photography award

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Butterfly brains reveal the tweaks required for cognitive innovation

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Bumble bee queens illustrate the complex effects of pesticide exposure on pollinator health

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Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid trophy hunting dispute

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Birds hold ‘funerals’ for dead

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Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story review – a pleasure of a film about an unlikely bond

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Bigfoot Sightings Are Almost Always This Animal in Disguise

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Best trees for climate change – 7 choices to beautify your yard and help the planet

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Best Of Nature: 20 Shortlisted Photos For Close-Up Photographer Of The Year

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Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River

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Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?

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Are giant rats the future in sniffing out wildlife trafficking? Watch the rodents at work

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AP photographers capture stunning scenes of nature and wildlife in 2024

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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Canadian Photos of the Year competition

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Animals that are all black or all white have reputations based on superstition − biases that have real effects

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Animals in the machine: why the law needs to protect animals from AI

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Animals become less sociable as they age in similar way to humans, research shows

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Ancient Lions and Bears Colonized North America in Multiple Waves, DNA Study Says

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Alberta photographer wins international award for lynx photo

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AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

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After a 1,000-km journey, lone chinook salmon makes ‘milestone’ return home to kɬúsx̌nítkw

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Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing

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A new way to review scientific literature is being tested

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A life of hard work on the hills of a Welsh valley – photo essay

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A Biologist Spotlights 4 ‘Invincible’ Animals That Survived The 5 Mass Extinctions

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A bear’s eye view of Yellowstone

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A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells a Deep Story of the Passage of Time

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30 Of The Funniest Photos From This Year’s Nikon Wildlife Photography Contest That Are Comedy Gold Interview

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15 Confusing Plant and Animal Misnomers

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‘The waters become corrupt, the air infected’: here’s how Ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with environmental damage

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‘Meep’ sound in darkened forest leads to ‘ivory’-eyed creature. It’s a new species

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‘It shouldn’t be that easy’: inside the illegal wildlife trade booming on social media

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‘I think it’s awesome’: Hundreds of bats move into historic Nanaimo area schoolhouse

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‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals

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‘Better than medication’: prescribing nature works, project shows

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‘World’s biggest’ youth-led conservation scheme begins in Wales

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‘Namgis First Nation touts success of land-based fish farming

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‘It’s pretty unique to see them’: Salamander migration in full swing in Manitoba

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