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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

Photographer Nicole Tung captures the tough world facing South-East Asia’s fishers and their families in this series of images, which won her the Carmignac Photojournalism Award for fieldwork

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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Deadly poisonous white mushrooms (Amanita phalloides, death cap) grow in forest

Environment

The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is still concocting new poisons

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In the village of Tshabula, villagers search for cobalt and copper in the waste tailings dumped by the lorries of the Chinese company Commus, which extracts minerals from one of the town's largest open-cast mines.

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Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

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2T96G2H Harvesting shrimp in a shrimp farm in Loc An, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam

Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

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Life

Exposure to microplastic makes animals want to eat it more

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Incredible images show a huge iceberg drifting dangerously close to the shore in Greenland this week. The towering structure has been edging closer to a harbour in Innaarsuit, where local authorities have issued warnings to the public. It is now near the Royal Greenland fish factory and the local food store, where people are being advised to take care when visiting.

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Greenland village has close encounter with giant iceberg

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Have we found an unlikely solution to the climate impact of flying?

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Have we found an unlikely solution to the climate impact of flying?

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Fish rescue wins �鶹��ý Editors Award at Earth Photo 2025

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Fish rescue wins �鶹��ý Editors Award at Earth Photo 2025

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Sentinel-5 seafloor scene

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Could undersea living be the future as sea levels rise?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened

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Earth

A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources

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Life

Remarkable photos highlight the haunting resilience of nature

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Health

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

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Environment

Captivating images expose a 'staged version' of nature

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