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The giant magnolia snail was thought to be extinct before living specimens were found in southern Vietnam in 2012. There are ...

I was lucky enough to watch a preview of Ocean with David Attenborough recently. Due for cinema release globally on 8 May ...

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Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

In his series The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson highlights the tension between an unfolding environmental ...

A Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE will be decided shortly. But it has already made history, says ...

There’s no doubt that doing some long-distance running improves our fitness, but at what point does it become too much, asks ...

When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how ...

It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...