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KUNMING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 30: A sign reading 'COP15' is set outside the Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center to welcome the upcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) on September 30, 2021 in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by Yang Zheng/VCG via Getty Images)

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China must lead by example to make the 2022 biodiversity talks succeed

To inspire other countries at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference, China will need to be seen as part of the solution rather than part of the problem, but has a surprising good news story to tell, says Graham Lawton

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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on on Turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) seagrass bed. The Bahamas.

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2022 preview: China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature

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Partha Dasgupta

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China's aims for UN biodiversity summit are unclear, says UK economist

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rogerio Florentino/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (12420427a) A photograph taken with a drone shows sectors burned by a fire in the Pantanal region, Brazil, 06 September 2021. A year after having devastated a large part of the ecosystem, forest fires once again threaten the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world that Brazil shares with Paraguay and Bolivia, where scenes of rescued animals or fleeing the fire are repeated again. Forest fires threaten Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, Brazil - 06 Sep 2021

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Fires in Brazil's wetlands killed almost 17 million animals in 2020

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Will a scramble to mine metals undermine the clean energy revolution?

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Will a scramble to mine metals undermine the clean energy revolution?

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Lulworth skipper butterfly

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UK will 'pause' publication of data showing biodiversity in decline

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Corallicolids and their hosts

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Mystery microbes have been lurking unsuspected in most coral species

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Animals get weighed at London Zoo annual weigh-in

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ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ check for London zoo animals as annual weigh-in gets underway

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Green plants in an urban space

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Even tiny green spaces in cities help urban wildlife biodiversity

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Zebra rolling in the dust

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Zebras rolling in pits help give life to the Namib desert in Africa

Rolling on the ground seems to be essential to life – at least in Africa’s Namib desert, where zebras bathe in dust, creating pits in the landscape that promote biodiversity

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Amazon fires have affected almost all the region's endangered species

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Vacuuming DNA from air can reveal which animals are present in an area

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Kelp surveys on England's south coast monitor a key climate defence

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Why chemical pollution is turning into a third great planetary crisis

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