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Queensland Ocean Crusader volunteers fight a losing battle in ‘phenomenal’ flood debris clean up

Seven months on from February's flood disaster, conservation group Ocean Crusaders is still cleaning up tonnes of debris from sout...

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To build for a warming planet, architects look to nature – and the past

Fifteen years ago, Kyle Isacksen and his wife, Katy Chandler, lived in what most people in their home city of Reno, Nevada, would ...

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Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species. That may be about to change

BINGHAMTON, New York — A soaring bald eagle is spellbinding. A growling grizzly is awe-inspiring. A swimming hellbender? You mig...

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Solar panels provide shade and a second source of revenue for this enterprising German farm

An apple farm in western Germany is reaping a second harvest - but it's not what you might expect. Solar panels providing much-n...

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Four-year forests: The Japanese way to ‘rewild the world’

Hannah Lewis couldn’t stop reading. She knew she was on to something. An article in her local paper described how, facing a prop...

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Dealing with drought: how fog collectors are providing trees with water in Spain

As summer fires continue to devastate huge areas of woodland in Spain, France and Portugal, and drought plagues Europe and the...

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Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Food plants intermingle on the second-floor rooftop of a house in Medan, the biggest city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The...

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Big lessons about biodiversity loss from a little French river

Even while drought is bringing many of Europe’s rivers to record lows and damaging biodiversity, the threat of catastrophic floo...

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‘Walking’ forest of 1,000 trees transforms Dutch city​

May, volunteers have been transporting the native trees planted in wooden containers along a 3.5km stretch through the centre of t...

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How Seoul failed its most vulnerable, flooded in their basement homes

As rainwater gushed into Yoon Jin-hyeok’s semi-underground apartment on Monday,the night of South Korea’s historic downpour, t...

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River Cleanups Move to the Next Level Using Grasses and Oysters

On a recent summer morning near Camden, New Jersey, two divers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hovered over a patch ...

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Farmers tackling climate change critical of State of the Environment Report

Farmers say a report outlining the deterioration of Australia's environment fails to acknowledge the millions being spent to addre...

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