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Ishikari Plain

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Ecological toll of Japan's switch to farming revealed by 1850s maps

Ishikari Lowland in Japan was converted to farmland beginning 150 years ago, and an analysis suggests it has experienced a 70 per cent drop in bird numbers since then

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Jackals seen stealing kills from lynx as they expand range in Europe

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Jackals seen stealing kills from lynx as they expand range in Europe

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A Drosophila suzukii fruit fly on a raspberry

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Raspberries are a battleground between flies, yeast and fungi

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Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked

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Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked

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European rabbits (Oryctolagus ciniculus) juveniles emerging from burrow, Cheshire, UK May

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Rabbits face a fresh onslaught akin to myxomatosis – can they survive?

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Three giant oak trees in natural forest among juvenile hornbeam, Bialowieza Forest, Poland, Europe

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Virus outbreak in wild boars led to more oak trees in Polish forest

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Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), British Columbia, Canada

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Fear of predators means sparrows struggle to raise chicks to adulthood

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On September 26, 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured these natural-color images of a large phytoplankton bloom in western Lake Erie. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the bloom contains microcystis, a type of freshwater cyanobacteria. These phytoplankton produce toxins that can contaminate drinking water and pose a risk to human and animal health (skin irritant, respiratory distress) when there is direct contact. A few days earlier, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Terra satellite captured a wider view of the lake. Blooms tend to thrive in Lake Erie during summer, sustained by warm water temperatures and nutrients from farm runoff. This year, the bloom has been ongoing since mid-July. NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

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Algal blooms in freshwater lakes are becoming more common worldwide

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Salmon fish farm in fjord. Norway, Bergen.; Shutterstock ID 1091461793; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Beautiful little Zebra finch in the wild.

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Zebra finch songs alter the behaviour of their chicks' mitochondria

In warm weather, zebra finches sing heat calls to their unborn offspring, and this programs the nestlings to produce less heat inside their cells

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Lakes freezing later in winter leads to less algae in the spring

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Over three-quarters of the world’s vital carbon stores are unprotected

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There are 50 billion wild birds on Earth – but four species dominate

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70 per cent of people live in countries without sustainable resources

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