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The Messengers
How do we get people to care about the environment? What if we're asking the wrong question? By Brooke Jarvis.
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Warming Oceans Putting Marine Life ‘In a Blender’
An analysis of nearly 13,000 species of fish, invertebrates and other marine organisms is an ambitious effort to map the future ranges of ocean life. By Carl Zimmer.
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The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South
A naturalist cuts through the myths surrounding the invasive plant. By Bill Finch.
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Escaping the tragedy of the commons through targeted punishment
Failures of cooperation cause many of society's gravest problems. It is well known that cooperation among many players faced with a social dilemma can be maintained thanks to the possibility of punishment, but achieving the initial state of widespread cooperation is often much more difficult. We show here that there exist strategies of ‘targeted punishment’ whereby a small number of punishers can shift a population of defectors into a state of global cooperation. By Samuel Johnson.
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Palm Oil Plantations Threaten African Primates
As Asian agribusinesses eye new opportunities in Africa, conservationists work to protect gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys
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Bambi and Tong Tong
Julia Adeney Thomas reviews Ian Jared Miller’s “The Nature Of The Beasts: Empire And Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo.” (January 2014)
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Humans cling to their primal fear of the dark
Your chances of being attacked, robbed, or struck by a car are no worse on a dimly lit street. And yet, like cavemen huddled around a campfire, humans are still comforted by light. By Eric Betz.
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The Archdruid Report: The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three
The End of the Dream.
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This Beautiful But Destructive Fish Is Resorting to Cannibalism
Efforts to tame Florida’s invasive lionfish haven’t worked. Now these venomous fish are eating each other, though it probably won't reduce their numbers substantially. By Katie Pyzyk.
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Alien Animals and Tortured Seascapes off the Galápagos
“Worms” that aren't actual worms, super octopus moms, and collapsed lava formations populate the seafloor surrounding the Galápagos. By Jane J. Lee.
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Can Rewilding Bring Nature Back to Modern Britain?
Rewilding Britain aims to deliver a more dynamic countryside. The author is a zealous participant in a growing movement. By Isabella Tree.
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Slow Life
(Full HD)
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The big five extinctions
Biologists suspect we’re living through the sixth major mass extinction. Earth has witnessed five, when more than 75% of species disappeared. Palaeontologists spot them when species go missing from the global fossil record, including the iconic specimens shown here...
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In Texas, a French Killer Is Hired to Do Job Americans Couldn’t
They’ve burned it, bulldozed it, hacked it and poisoned it. Now they want to try wasps -- imported from France, no less...
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Glowworms in Motion - A Time-lapse of NZ’s Glowworm Caves in 4K
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In massive expansion of lands legacy, Obama creates three new national monuments
The new protected lands includes desert, vineyards and antiquities. By Juliet Eilperin.
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Carnivorous plants communicate with bats
A large, meat-eating pitcher plant in Borneo has evolved a unique way to communicate with bats that it hopes to attract.
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How can wind energy and Africa’s vultures co-exist?
Wind farms are one of the solutions to Africa’s energy crisis, but they have the potential to jeopardise threatened bird species such as eagles and vultures.
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The ‘jellyfish invasion’ story one newspaper didn’t want you to read
TV presenter and naturalist Steve Backshall was asked by a British newspaper to write about the ‘invasion’ of jellyfish this summer. But they didn’t like what he had to say, so we’re publishing it here in full instead.
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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius. By Hari Kunzru.
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