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How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the buildings of the future

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Aerial view of the round structures of the AmazonFACE experiment built in a National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) research area, located 80 km north of Manaus. AmazonFACE is one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted in the Amazon. It simulates, in a tropical forest area, the impact of the increase in atmospheric CO2 predicted for the coming decades. Using FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) technology, the project seeks to understand how climate change will affect the forest, its biodiversity, and the beneficial functions it currently carries out.

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Testing the Amazon's ability to soak up increasing carbon emissions

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

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Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

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Crescent moon rise at dawn with passing passenger jet

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How pie-in-the-sky conspiracies distract from climate dangers

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Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91

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'We're precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event'

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'We're precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event'

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DTYENM A sign on the site of a proposed wind farm at Reeves Hill (Stonewall Hill) on the Herefordshire and Powys border. The project was later abandoned

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Exciting new research shows ways to defuse the "green backlash"

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Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. General Santos is known as the Philippines? tuna capital and hub for tuna fishing and exports of the products. The city hosts numerous processing facilities where the fish, primarily tuna, is packaged or canned for sale to the Filipino market and for export worldwide.

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Powerful images show dark side of South-East Asia’s fishing industry

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

Societies can be united and inspired by ideas of the future. We urgently need more of them, argues futurist Sarah Housley

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The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is still concocting new poisons

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Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

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Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

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Exposure to microplastic makes animals want to eat it more

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