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Environment

Humans may be trading far more species of wildlife than we thought

Estimates based on two wildlife databases suggest 5000 species are traded around the world, with larger, more distinctive animals most at risk

Walrus in the sea

Humans

Vikings probably hunted Iceland’s walruses to extinction for ivory

Picture of ancient worm

Life

540-million-year-old worm was first segmented animal that could move

Cave bear skeleton

Life

Europe鈥檚 extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived

Life

We’re pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction

Fossilised fish

Life

Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid

Earth

Don’t panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos

Earth

Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

Earth

Britain鈥檚 hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

Earth

Africa’s 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting

Earth

Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

Earth

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

Earth

Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct