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Life

India’s salt harvesters toil for crystals under the baking sun

The salt pan workers of Gujarat collect tonnes of our most basic seasoning every day in the dry season, for meagre rewards

Regulars

Iberian lynx

Life

Iberian lynx beats extinction as cats are released to the wild

News

A desert, with a few stones and dry branches in the foreground and a very bright sun shining in a clear, dark blue sky

Earth

Planets with too much carbon dioxide could lose oceans to space

News

Pic-scanning AI estimates city air pollution from mass of photos

Technology

Pic-scanning AI estimates city air pollution from mass of photos

News

Australia's plan to make a digital representation of everything

Earth

Australia's plan to make a digital representation of everything

News

Earth

Competition results: Winning words to describe the Anthropocene

CultureLab

slavery cartoon

Humans

Realising slavery's environmental impact will hasten its end

Comment

chickens

Life

Meathooked: How eating meat became a global obsession

CultureLab

Houses surrounded by flood water from river

Life

Floods in Europe will cause five times more damage by 2050

News

Honeybees know it’s going to rain, so work more before it starts

Life

Honeybees know it’s going to rain, so work more before it starts

Busy bees put in longer hours in anticipation of a day off work because of rain. But why they do so is still a mystery

News

Earth

Decades-long heatwaves may hit Europe as climate change bites

News

Earth

Doomsday Clock: The retro metaphor that's still relevant today

Comment

Earth

Shock of the Anthropocene: Winners and losers in new world era

CultureLab

Life

How to save Flint in Michigan from lead-poisoned drinking water

News