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While many surveys show the numbers of wildlife falling, there is good news for some species – including pondskaters and various mosses and lichen.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn’t deliberately deposit their dead in a hidden chamber.
Mosses and lichens have the ability to accumulate and retain air pollutants.
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