Eco-destruction and habitat loss are key themes that run through the new Snufkin game.
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In Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, restoring harmony with nature against exploitative forces is key to the game’s narrative.
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We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
An underwater forest formed by the purple gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) off Marseille at a depth of 60 metres.
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Forming tightly woven populations, these bush-like corals offer a refuge to a myriad of marine species.
The ultra-trail Transvulcania 2017, on the island of La Palma, May 13, 2017.
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The sport of trail running is one of the fastest growing in the world, but now is facing two major challenges at the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic and ecological crisis.
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Mining is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well.
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Humans have caused ecosystems to collapse on purpose for millennia, to grow food or build settlements. But unplanned collapses are a different matter.
Activists dress in blue to raise awareness of marine species extinctions.
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Extinction Rebellion’s ‘apolitical’ stance deprives it of allies, and leaves the movement vulnerable to co-option.
People work in a rice field in Nepal.
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To reverse the current climate and ecological crises, governments must put an end to the damaging forms of technology, innovation, investments and incentives that contribute to it.
A crowd observes the world’s first Earth Day on April 23, 1970, in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
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When the current crisis passes, we must seize the opportunity to re-imagine, and to create, a different kind of future.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate strike outside the Swedish parliament, December 20 2019.
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Instead of Tudors and Churchill, history students need to learn how civilisation has arrived at the point of no return.
Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist, addresses a press conference during the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22 2020.
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Jane Goodall’s comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
Corals release millions of sperm and eggs in synchrony to reproduce.
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The largest reproductive event on the planet is under threat.
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Writing vividly about her beloved Aberdeenshire landscape has reconnected many readers and writers to nature, underscoring the need to protect our fragile environment.
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Climate change is accelerating and species are dying out at a record rate. Experts imagine how inviting nature into our lives could help.
Children play in a cabbage patch near their home in Modderspruit, near Rustenburg, South Africa.
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The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
Mining is a highly destructive endeavour towards our environment but demand for gems and minerals is non-stop; early colonial relationships continue to define these industries.
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Much of the devastation of our globe’s natural resources traces its origins to early colonialism. These relationships continue to define the extraction of resources that severely impact ecosystems.