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Environment

What is the UN high seas treaty and will it save the world’s oceans?

Nations have for the first time agreed on a framework for protecting marine life in international waters, but there are many issues still to be ironed out

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A beekeeper tends to a honeybee hive

Life

Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

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JGBD13 Llangollen, view from bridge of the river Dee

Environment

Why rivers are important for everything from biodiversity to wellbeing

Insight

rock bunting

Life

Avalanches create habitats for a wider range of birds in the Alps

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Emperors penguins huddled on the ice

Life

Most Antarctic animals and plants are set to decline by 2100

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Viviana Figueroa from Argentina speaks during the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Lars Hagberg / AFP) (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

COP15 biodiversity deal is ‘new era’ for Indigenous-led conservation

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Eve Bazaiba Masudi, Vice-Prime Minister and Environment Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil Foreign Minister Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde, left, and Daniel Tumpal Sumurung Simanjuntak of Indonesia raises their arms following a discussion at the COP15 UN conference on biodiversity in Montreal

Environment

COP15: Treaty may unravel over last-minute disputes and vague targets

Analysis

Huang Runqiu and Steven Guilbeault

Environment

Countries agree landmark deal to halt global decline in nature by 2030

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COP15 delegates negotiating on 7 December in Montreal

Environment

COP15: How much money do we need to stop biodiversity loss?

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Environment

COP15: What is the 30 by 30 biodiversity target and is it enough?

Under the 30 by 30 biodiversity target, countries would pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and sea, but that may not be enough to reduce biodiversity losses

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Environment

COP15: Countries debate how to share profits from Earth’s genetic data

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Environment

COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talks break down

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Environment

Tropical forests ravaged by logging can still have thriving ecosystems

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Environment

COP15 target to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is ‘unrealistic’

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