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Discoveries & Research
Conservation paradox: Invasive species are often threatened in their native range
Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline – they were partly responsible for…
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Technology
Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from Forest Fires to Threatened Species
You are in a lush forest. Sunlight filters through the bright green canopy, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Towering…
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Literature:
The big idea: on Remembrance Day for Lost Species, here’s why it matters | Extinct wildlife
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth, causing the extinction of around 75% of all species. This event was…
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Discoveries & Research
A fossil first: Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot
More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday…
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Politics
Fossil footprints suggest 2 early human species coexisted 1.5 million years ago
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbours some 1.5 million…
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Literature:
‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money | Books
Richard Flanagan had only just got home from a trek through the wilderness when “the phone started going off like…
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Discoveries & Research
More than one third of Vietnam’s mammal species are at risk of extinction, study finds
A recent study highlights that over one-third of Vietnam’s 329 mammal species are threatened with extinction. Conducted by German scientist…
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Discoveries & Research
The Shellowship of the Ring: Two new snail species named after Tolkien characters
Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings. Described…
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Politics
Albania has greenlit a Trump-connected resort that could endanger bird and turtle species
“You see those white pinkish dots in front of us?” asked Xhemal Xherri, peering across a lagoon along the southern…
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Technology
Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water
“You can see an ecosystem change overnight—specifically with hydrilla. You’ll see a normal pond, and then at the end of…
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