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Rewriting the textbooks: Noah's shrinking ark

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Rewriting the textbooks: Noah's shrinking ark

Ask a taxonomist to estimate Earth's total inventory of species, and they'll probably say 30 million. That is almost certainly a huge overestimate, says Kate Douglas

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Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

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Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

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Evolutionary push could help crops self-fertilise

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Evolutionary push could help crops self-fertilise

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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

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Use funds to conserve fittest corals, say ecologists

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Female baboons are victims of domestic abuse

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Female baboons are victims of domestic abuse

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Everglades tree islands are prehistoric trash piles

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Everglades tree islands are prehistoric trash piles

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Will intensified farming save the rainforests?

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Will intensified farming save the rainforests?

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Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction

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Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction

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Ecologists desert Cancún's sinking ship

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Ecologists desert Cancún's sinking ship

As the chances of reaching a deal on climate change decrease in United Nations talks, environmentalists are considering whether to go it alone

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Row erupts over number of big fish in the sea

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Edward Norton: What's the first rule of Peace Club?

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Grey whales took to high seas to survive the ice ages

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Louisiana revival: Eco-engineering on a giant scale

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