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Governments need to look at the “worst case scenario” outcomes of climate change, scientists have warned.
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The Indonesian conservationists saving endangered gibbons
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“We can now only sometimes hear the sounds of the gibbons in the morning or evening. Before, according to locals, it used to be very noisy.”
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The number of seals living in Britain's River Thames has fallen
After the river was declared dead in the 1950s, it's a miracle anything is living in the waters now.
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This is the algorithm that could save elephants from extinction
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