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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected

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Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?

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Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?

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How fear drastically shapes ecosystems: Best ideas of the century

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How fear drastically shapes ecosystems: Best ideas of the century

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Hui Yu photographed this imposing portrait of a tropical flat-faced longhorn beetle on a family photography trip to a tropical rainforest at Gunung Jerai in Malaysia. A light bulb in a mosquito net attracted local invertebrates during the night, and in the morning there were lots of them to look at. Hui Yu is keen on macro-photography and chose the most colourful animal to take a portrait of. 'It had a strange look, like an alien, but it wasn't angry. It sat still on the branch all the time,' she says. 'I want people to know that all creatures, even small ones, count. So don't destroy the forest.'

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Stunning images highlight fight to save Earth’s rich biodiversity

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'We're precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event'

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'We're precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event'

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Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. General Santos is known as the Philippines? tuna capital and hub for tuna fishing and exports of the products. The city hosts numerous processing facilities where the fish, primarily tuna, is packaged or canned for sale to the Filipino market and for export worldwide.

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Powerful images show dark side of South-East Asia’s fishing industry

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How to tackle environmental issues when the world can't agree

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Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound

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Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon

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Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?

With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new limit for temperature rises – but not everyone agrees that we should

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What will be the climate fallout from Trump's 'big beautiful bill'?

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Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’ – will it work?

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Unlocking genetic secrets of the world's most vital fungi collection

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Promises to improve nature are being broken by English house builders

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