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Let’s stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption

Every society has topics it does not discuss. These are the issues which challenge its comfortable assumptions. They are the ones that remind us of mortality, which threaten the continuity we...

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Crowded Planet: a conversation with Alan Weisman

Over the course of the past one hundred years, we humans have grown in population at a rate rarely seen outside of a petri dish. Alan Weisman, author of the best-selling The World Without Us, spent two...

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‘Peak soil’ threatens future global food security

LONDON – The challenge of ensuring future food security as populations grow and diets change has its roots in soil, but the increasing degradation of the earth’s thin skin is threatening to push up...

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100,000 Elephants Killed by Poachers in Just Three Years, Landmark Analysis...

Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, according to a new study that provides the first reliable continent-wide estimates of illegal kills. During 2011 alone,...

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Big animals are going the way of the mammoth

Elephants. Rhinos. Hippos. People travel to Africa from all corners of the globe just to glimpse these massive vegetarian wanderers of the wilderness. But take a good look while you can. New research...

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