Conservation

To combat coral bleaching, Kenya turns to reef nurseries

Minutes away from the Kenyan mainland, the densely forested island of Wasini is one of several starting lines for coral reef resto...

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The race to reclaim the dark

hundreds – and, as his eyes adjust, thousands – of stars studding the night sky. th, a region renowned for its rugged moors, g...

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‘River of Grass’: Inside the quest to restore the Everglades

Eight hundred feet up, the helicopter banks hard to the left. The horizon disappears. Mark Cook, an avian biologist, peers out his...

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Call for urgent action as Australia faces biodiversity crisis

Conservationist Gregory Andrews has warned Australia’s biodiversity is the “worst it’s ever been” and that the new Labor g...

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Extinction obituary: how the Bramble Cay melomys became the first mammal lost to the climate crisis

No one knows how the Bramble Cay melomyses – rodents with large, liquid eyes and reddish-brown fur, small enough to fit in the p...

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‘Stop fighting Mother Nature.’ How farmers adapt to extreme weather.

Zack Koscielny has only been in charge of livestock and crops for four years, but the freckled farmer has already become accustome...

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Scotland’s Billionaires Are Turning Climate Change Into A Trophy Game

The wind turbine judders to life with a boom that echoes down its central shaft. It rotates slowly at first, then gathers speed as...

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In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life

Deep in the Rift Valley of East Africa, close to some of the most ancient human remains ever unearthed, one of the continent’s l...

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Managing fish stocks shared by nations must focus on the impacts of climate change

Shared fish stocks of hundreds of marine species have been historically exploited by many countries across the world. s oceans g...

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Tropical rainforests dying at twice the rate from drier, hotter conditions, study finds

One of the longest-running scientific studies of tropical forests has revealed rainforest trees are dying twice as fast as they we...

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Great Barrier Reef bleaching occurred on over 90 per cent of reefs this summer, report reveals

More than 90 per cent of coral reefs surveyed on the Great Barrier Reef suffered some form of bleaching this summer, according to ...

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How phantom forests are used for greenwashing

Capturing carbon by increasing forest cover has become central to the fight against climate change. But there's a problem. Sometim...

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