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Environment

Biodiversity may prove to be the defining issue of our age

It’s an error to think we’ve got bigger problems than extinction. We must take species loss seriously, or it will come back to haunt us

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Life

Is life on Earth really at risk? The truth about the extinction crisis

A close-up of a hedgehog

Environment

Chris Packham: ‘Let’s stop sleepwalking towards mass extinction’

Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

Earth

Africa’s 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

Earth

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

Earth

Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

Earth

A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

Water buffalo grazing in a Welsh marsh

Earth

Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity

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Environment

Gorgeous rainbow frogs come in different colours on every island

In Bocas del Toro in Panama, each island in the archipelago has a different-hued version of the strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio)

Environment

Nearly abandoned lab in Tanzanian mountains is 70s time capsule

Environment

De-extinction dilemma: reviving dead species may doom the living

Environment

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

Earth

Largest lake in southern Europe under threat from “eco-resort”