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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on on Turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) seagrass bed. The Bahamas.

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2022 preview: China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature

Will governments finally take action to halt the devastating biodiversity crisis at the COP15 meeting in Kunming, China, in April?

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Partha Dasgupta

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China's aims for UN biodiversity summit are unclear, says UK economist

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rogerio Florentino/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (12420427a) A photograph taken with a drone shows sectors burned by a fire in the Pantanal region, Brazil, 06 September 2021. A year after having devastated a large part of the ecosystem, forest fires once again threaten the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world that Brazil shares with Paraguay and Bolivia, where scenes of rescued animals or fleeing the fire are repeated again. Forest fires threaten Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, Brazil - 06 Sep 2021

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Fires in Brazil's wetlands killed almost 17 million animals in 2020

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Will a scramble to mine metals undermine the clean energy revolution?

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Will a scramble to mine metals undermine the clean energy revolution?

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Lulworth skipper butterfly

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UK will 'pause' publication of data showing biodiversity in decline

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Corallicolids and their hosts

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Mystery microbes have been lurking unsuspected in most coral species

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Animals get weighed at London Zoo annual weigh-in

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Health check for London zoo animals as annual weigh-in gets underway

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Green plants in an urban space

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Even tiny green spaces in cities help urban wildlife biodiversity

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Zebra rolling in the dust

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Zebras rolling in pits help give life to the Namib desert in Africa

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andre Penner/AP/Shutterstock (10753127a) Fire consumes land deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil Amazon Fires, Novo Progresso, Brazil - 23 Aug 2020

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Amazon fires have affected almost all the region's endangered species

Fires set in the Amazon to clear land for farming have affected almost all the endangered species in the Amazon rainforest, cutting down on animal habitats and threatening plant species

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Vacuuming DNA from air can reveal which animals are present in an area

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Kelp surveys on England's south coast monitor a key climate defence

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Why chemical pollution is turning into a third great planetary crisis

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First baby beaver born in Exmoor, UK for 400 years

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