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'Nature Is Unraveling': Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970

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As Amazon and California Burn, New Analysis Warns Human Activity Driving Global Wildfire Surge

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

Given estimates that humans are responsible for around 75% of fires, "this means solutions are in our grasp too."

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Top Global Experts Say Humanity Must 'Heal Our Broken Relationship With Nature' to Prevent Future Pandemics

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is seen inside a cage at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program's rehabilitation center on November 10, 2016 in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The orangutans in Indonesia have been known to be on the verge of extinction as a result of deforestation and poaching. (Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

"We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt...

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Putin Declares Federal Emergency After Diesel Fuel Spill in Arctic River That Could Take Decades to Recover

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

An accident at a power station in the Russia region of Krasnoyarsk caused about 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel to spill into an Arctic River on May 29, 2020.

Reports indicate melting permafrost caused by global heating may have damaged...

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'Sleepwalking Towards Edge of a Cliff': 60% of Earth's Wildlife Gone Since 1970

In 11th Annual Earth Hour, Green Groups Call for Global Effort to Combat Climate Crisis and Defend Biodiversity

World's Oceans and Marine Life Threatened as 'Never Before in Human History'

Global Demand for Meat Amounts to 'Appetite for Destruction,' Says New Study

'The Greatest Single Step' to Help Elephants Was Just Taken

NOAA Issues 'Jaw-Dropping' Assessment on 'Unprecedented' Arctic Warming

Lights Dim Worldwide in 'Call to Switch on Our Collective Power'

Canaries in the Arctic: New Study Shows Stunning Polar Bear Decline

Planet on the Brink: Human Activity Killing the Planet's Life-Supporting Systems

'Clean Coal' Greenwashing Ad Ruled Misleading by UK Regulator

Will Big Oil Execs Ever Stand Trial for Willful Climate Deceit?

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Letters Implicate WWF in Illegal Land Grab and Human Rights Abuses

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Fiore Longo

A Colonialist Land Grab Is Happening Right Now in Congo

Rajesh Makwana

Sharing a (Not So) Living Planet