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As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps
Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...
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I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)
The first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that I worked on was in 2009. I didn’t actually go ...
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Thousands of birds seized in massive Indonesian bird-trafficking bust
Authorities in Indonesia have rescued more than 6,500 wild birds being trafficked from the island of Sumatra and destined for ...
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The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon
The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...
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Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage
Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...