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China’s fancy for ‘aquatic cocaine’ could wipe out rare porpoise
Illegal trade in the swim bladder of the totoaba fish fuels fishing practices that may drive the critically endangered vaquita to extinction
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Arctic summer sea ice melts to second lowest level ever recorded
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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant
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Our water is full of drugs and we don’t know their effects
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More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish
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Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests
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Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide
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North Korea’s largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity
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Paradise lost: we’ve destroyed most of the world’s wilderness
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A wall of trees across the Sahara is cool – but we don’t need it
The African Union is planning an 8000 kilometre stretch of trees across the entire continent, but the Great Green Wall isn't the best way to halt desertification
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Ocean warming is already spreading diseases and killing corals
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Where will we find the first telltale signs of the Anthropocene?
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How water shortages flow into collaboration not war
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Court rules in favour of Queensland mega-mine
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