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Restoring Mexico’s mangroves can shield shores, store carbon
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Restoring Mexico’s mangroves can shield shores, store carbon

PROGRESO, Mexico (AP) — When a rotten egg smell rises from the mangrove swamps of southeast Mexico, something is going…
Pope: Use pandemic to give the environment a vital “rest”
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Pope: Use pandemic to give the environment a vital “rest”

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the Earth can recover “if we allow it to rest”…
Pandemic: Less air pollution means thousands fewer die
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Pandemic: Less air pollution means thousands fewer die

There will be 11,000 fewer deaths in European countries under coronavirus lockdown due to a sharp drop in fossil fuel…
Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ stocks up on more food seeds
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Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ stocks up on more food seeds

An Arctic “doomsday vault” is set Tuesday to receive 60,000 samples of seeds from around the world as the biggest…
Fire-hit Australia gets $1.4bn recovery fund as troops deployed
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Fire-hit Australia gets $1.4bn recovery fund as troops deployed

Reserve troops fanned out across fire-ravaged regions in three Australian states on Monday after a horror weekend, as the government…
Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ for lucrative animal tourism
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Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ for lucrative animal tourism

Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food — many Thai elephants are tamed by…
Oil giant Total’s chief announces new unit to invest in forests
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Oil giant Total’s chief announces new unit to invest in forests

The head of French energy giant Total announced Saturday that the company would invest a hundred million dollars annually on…
UN report says nature is in worst shape in human history
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UN report says nature is in worst shape in human history

Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million…
China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos
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China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos

From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China’s…
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