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Biodiversity

Environment

The proposed Anthropocene definition is unscientific and harmful

Evidence shows our impact on the planet started long before 1950, the date chosen by the Anthropocene Working Group for the start of the new epoch, so I resigned from the group in protest, says Erle Ellis

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Life

The US is doing its biggest-ever survey of nature and wildlife

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Life

One third of all vertebrate species are exploited by humans

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The Auchencorth Moss air quality monitoring station in Scotland (credit: National Physical Laboratory / Local Site Operator)

Environment

Air pollution monitors have been accidentally harvesting wildlife DNA

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Life

We鈥檝e been drastically underestimating Earth鈥檚 microbial diversity

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Life

5000 species not known elsewhere live in area set for deep-sea mining

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380 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Region EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01GMT May 22 Calotes goetzi The Cambodian blue-crested agma, an aggressive lizard that changes color as a defensive mechanism ? Henrik Bringsoe

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Hundreds of species new to science discovered in South-East Asia

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Life

Insects are thriving in England’s rivers after fall in metal pollution

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A pair of Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoises on Isabela Island in the Galapagos archipelago

Life

Galapagos giant tortoise argument may threaten conservation efforts

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Life

The shocking decline of Earth鈥檚 microbiome 鈥� and how to save it

Bacteria, fungi and other microbes, which are vital to life on Earth, were long thought impervious to threats endangering larger lifeforms. Now biologists are warning of a microbial extinction event

Features

Environment

Farmland could feed 20 billion people but it might wreck the planet

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Environment

Squid fishing is booming in unregulated parts of the ocean

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Environment

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

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Life

Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

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