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Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season
If you celebrate Christmas, it doesn't have to be a feast of rampant consumerism and devastating gluttony. Read our guide to cleaning up your Yule
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Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
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New blues: The quest to make the world鈥檚 rarest colour
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Earth
England’s soggy place names could predict the climate future
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Humans
How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke
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The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
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We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home
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Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
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Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
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Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Pests and disease threaten our supply of cocoa beans, but in a field outside London biologists are working to prevent a chocolate meltdown. We paid a visit
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The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
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Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat
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鈥橲no substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste
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Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time
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