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    A person kneels as he watches his home being consumed by fire in Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia, October 3, 2024 in this screengrab taken from a handout video. Riberalta Government Handout/Handout via REUTERS
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    Bolivia Wildfires Burn Record Area, Scorching Homes and Farms

    Wildfires in Bolivia have burned through more than 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) this year

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    The bald-tip beard orchid was thought to be lost for ever until a small surviving population was discovered in 1968 at a site near Whroo in central Victoria. Photograph: Jeff Jeanes
    conservation Environment Flowers Orchids Plants

    Fewer than 10 of these orchids remain in the wild. Victoria was about to burn them into extinction

    Critically endangered flowers get stay of execution after local environmental group threatens legal action against Victorian government

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    Photo by Jim Denny, drepanis coccinea, ʻIʻiwi at Hosmer Grove, Maui
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    VANISHING VOICES: Saving Our Hawaiian Forest Birds

    Native Hawaiian Forest Birds face imminent extinction from non-native mosquitoes spreading deadly avian diseases.

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    One of two Vincent van Gogh paintings after Just Stop Oil activists poured soup over them. The paintings were unharmed. Photograph: Just Stop Oil/PA
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    Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings

    Three protesters have been charged with criminal damage and will appear in court after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh paintings on Friday.

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    A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive reserve in Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)
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    Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation

    A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected area of former rainforest in the Amazon

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    Take a look inside a $1.1 million ‘zero emissions’ home

    Residential and commercial buildings account for almost a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Nazly Ahmed Thalangama Wetland in Colombo used to be filled with rubbish but is now teeming with life (Credit: Nazly Ahmed)
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    From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka’s natural flood buffers

    Sri Lanka’s capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life.

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    Fragments of Constantine's Arch lie on the ground after lightning struck it during a storm in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Alberto Lingria/Reuters
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    Constantine Arch in Rome damaged by lightning during violent storm

    Residents tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after more than 60mm of rainfall falls on Rome in less than an hour

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    Phanor Montoya-Maya, the coral reef restoration program manager for the Coral Restoration Foundation, examines staghorn corals growing on Pickles Reef, near Key Largo, Fla. on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Pickles Reef is one of the reefs in the Florida Keys where CRF has planted corals raised in their nursery as part of an ongoing restoration project.
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    Coral Restoration’s Wake Up Call

    Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality.

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    (Credit: Getty Images)
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    Why air pollution bamboozles pollinating bees

    Contaminated air is not only bad for us, it can also disrupt bees’ highly attuned senses for finding flowers.

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    This figure depicts how nearly 25% of the European continent is primed for rewilding opportunities, which include passive rewilding (gradients of blue) that allows the natural recolonization of animals, as well as active rewilding (yellow, brown, and red) where animals are manually reintroduced to the area. Credit: Araújo and Alagador, Current Biology.
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    Nearly 25% of European landscape could be rewilded, say researchers

    Europe’s abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention.

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    Juvenile African penguin called 'Charlie' Image Credits : SABC News
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    African penguin “Charlie” recovering at uShaka after shark attack

    A juvenile African penguin is making good progress. It’s being nursed back to health at Durban’s uShaka Sea World, after sustaining severe injuries in a suspected shark attack.

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