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Environment

Richest nations ‘exporting extinction’ with demand for beef, palm oil and timber | Deforestation

The world’s wealthiest nations are “exporting extinction” by destroying 15 times more biodiversity internationally than within their own borders, research…

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A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’? | Environment

Donald Trump has already begun dismantling parts of the envied US endangered species protections in his quest to boost oil…

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Environment

Britons urged to join hunt for rare daffodil breeds amid extinction fears | Plants

Britons have been asked to hunt for rare pink, white and “bonfire yellow” daffodils in order to save threatened varieties…

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World

The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species

A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99…

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Environment

‘The risk of extinction is accelerating’: world’s botanic gardens raise alarm with space to protect endangered plants running out | Conservation

Botanic gardens around the world are failing to conserve the rarest and most threatened species growing in their living collections…

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Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused…

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World

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the…

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