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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

Recent discoveries of horizontal gene transfer reveal that animals and plants are swapping genes across different species - but how do they do it and what might it mean for evolution?

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Semi Submersible Oil Rig during Sunrise at Cromarty Firth in Invergordon, Scotland; Shutterstock ID 554842060; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Oil giants accused of greenwashing for failure over energy transition

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$KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY, RUSSIA - APRIL 17, 2021: An aerial view of the village of Nosok, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. It is also the location of the Zarya Taimyra [Taymyr Dawn] state reindeer farming enterprise. Alexander Ryumin/TASS (Photo by Alexander Ryumin\TASS via Getty Images)$

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A collaborative approach is needed to avoid the next pandemic

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2HJF0FC DRAX POWER STATION, DRAX, UK - JANUARY 19, 2022. An aerial view of a rail freight train delivering renewable biomass fuel to Drax Power Station

Technology

The race is on to tackle climate change by pulling carbon from the air

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Folmannia orthoclada on rock in Atacama Desert, northern Chile (March 2020). This lichen contains a Trebouxia photobiont.

Life

Lichens may take a million years to adapt to 1°C of climate warming

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Deschampsia antarctica

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Flower growth in Antarctica is accelerating due to warming climate

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Cold blob in Atlantic may be slowing ice loss from Iceland’s glaciers

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A demonstration by Rainforest Action Network, Stop the Money Pipeline and Bank Track at COP26, Glasgow, Scotland

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Fix the Planet newsletter: When net zero means not zero

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photographed while on an assignment for Indonesia?s largest coal mining company, South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Six graphics that reveal what materials we consume – and what we waste

We are devouring ever more biomass, fossil fuels, metals and minerals each year. These graphics show how, and the shocking picture of how much we throw away

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Janez Potočnik interview: How a circular economy can help us go green

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How to cut material use in buildings, clothes, electronics and plastic

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The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

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Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

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