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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

Environment

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

At least a fifth of Brazil's Pantanal region was burned in 2020 during a historic drought, and the wildfires are estimated to have killed millions of birds, snakes, rodents and primates, among other animals

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Environment

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

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Lulworth skipper butterfly

Life

UK will ‘pause’ publication of data showing biodiversity in decline

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Corallicolids and their hosts

Life

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

Environment

Even tiny green spaces in cities help urban wildlife biodiversity

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Zebra rolling in the dust

Life

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

Environment

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

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Environment

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

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Environment

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

Take a trip aboard a research vessel surveying kelp along England's south coast to see if these plants, crucial for locking up carbon and increasing biodiversity, can recover after a trawler fishing ban went into effect in the area

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Earth

Why chemical pollution is turning into a third great planetary crisis

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Life

First baby beaver born in Exmoor, UK for 400 years

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Environment

UN plan would protect 30% of oceans and land to stem extinctions

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Life

Locally extinct brushtail possums reintroduced in Western Australia

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