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When Brent Hughes started studying the seagrass beds of Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Monterey Bay…
‘The worst of human nature’: UK staycationers’ trail of destruction
Fires caused by portable barbecues, wild flowers being dug up, the disturbance of shorebirds, and an…
The underwater future of the Maldives – in pictures
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Amazon fires: Brazil sees worst start to fire season in 10 years – video
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China’s billion dollar pig plan met with loathing by Argentinians
A government-sponsored plan to turbocharge Argentina’s hog industry with Chinese capital is generating unprecedented resistance among…
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Here is why we are taking the Australian government to the UN over its inaction on climate change | Yessie Mosby
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Pollutionwatch: how lessons from 1920s were forgotten for 50 years
In August 1921, John Switzer Owens had a UK holiday. He went to Holme, Norfolk, and…