Dafne Keen returns as Lyra in season three of His Dark Materials.
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In its third and concluding season, His Dark Materials grapples with ideas poorly suited to small screen adaptation – but comes out swinging.
Issa chimpanzees live in a woodland dominated environment interspersed with riparian forests, grasslands, and rocky out-crops.
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Almost all theories of human bipedalism explain it as a terrestrial adaptation. A new study does not support that view.
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Les conférences COP constituent en général une plateforme pour la négociation d'accords internationaux sur le changement climatique.
Floods in Pakistan have upended millions of lives.
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Heading into COP27, those at the sharp end of climate change are seeking a better deal.
A young Fulani pastoralist from the Tatki region of Senegal who must learn another craft because his future is uncertain.
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Millions of Africans could be uprooted or trapped where they are through climate-induced displacement and migration.
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COP conferences broadly provide a platform for the negotiation of international climate change agreements.
Debt swaps in some countries have involved commitments to protect the ocean.
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Many small island nations are struggling to protect their land from rising seas while also facing paralyzing debt.
Zebras stand in a ranch in South Africa.
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Africa’s designated protected areas don’t handle shocks well - South Africa’s wildlife ranches offer lessons in resilience.
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Netflix’s Sandman is quite different from the comics and that opens up the story to a whole new fandom.
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Slated by critics, Netflix’s Persuasion isn’t as bad as it’s been made out to be.
After the 2018 wildfire in Paradise, Calif., many fire-damaged homes were razed.
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Managed retreat is already common in flood-prone areas, but what about in neighborhoods at high risk from wildfires? Here are four ways communities can pull back for safety.
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Since the second world war, changing ideas about how children should behave have made us fear independent and competent children.
Rachel Austin
A single seagrass plant in Shark Bay is around 4,500 years old, covers 200 square kilometres of seabed, and thrives in harsh conditions.
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A long-term study of wild animal populations shows each generation is on average almost 20% genetically ‘better’ than their parents at surviving and reproducing.
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Potting soils are helping plant seeds travel. Is it benign or harmful?
Martin Whiting
Researchers wanted to understand what happens when chameleons – animals that display dynamic colour change – find themselves in an environment without their natural predators.
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How can we, personally, prepare for a future with not only more frequent natural disasters, but one that will also profoundly change the environment, communities and the economy?
Climate change stresses plants, forcing them to turn off the cellular machinery that helps them grow.
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The climate crisis makes it important to investigate and understand the mechanisms of plant growth if we are to keep agricultural crops sustainable.
Artist’s rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination.
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Cockroaches have been on Earth far longer than humans and may outlast us. Here are a few reasons why.
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Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.