environment
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Ducks, red deer, cherry blossoms and leopards in the hill forests of Myanmar are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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First WI report on food waste finds confusion persists over ‘best before’ and ‘sell by’ dates, with supermarkets potentially contributing to the problem
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Flies are often the first visitors to a murder scene. Studying their grisly dining habits can reveal vital clues to help catch the killer
talking points
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Vibrant vegetation in a Venezuelan lake, Saharan dust in snowy Sierra Nevada, cloud vortices in South Korea, a vast solar farm in China, and a lone ship in the Atlantic are among our satellite images this month
multimedia
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The World Wildlife Fund released this footage that shows the view from a camera attached to a whale in Antarctica
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It may be the spirtual home of Priscilla and Mad Max, but Australia’s first heritage-listed city is reimagining its future post mining and shifting its focus to renewable energy with large-scale wind and solar farms
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The adder (Vipera berus) is Britain’s only venomous snake. An adder bite can be very painful and cause a nasty inflammation. The males emerge from hibernation as early as February but do little until early April when the females come out
key issues
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WildlifeWildlifeApril the giraffe tends to wobbly newborn calf – videoApril, a 15-year-old giraffe, tends to her newly born calf after giving birth live on a New York zoo’s YouTube channel on Saturday
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PollutionPollutionSix megatrends that could alter the course of sustainable developmentAs the world works to achieve the sustainable development goals, a recent UN report identifies six issues that challenge ambitious targets
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For 40 years I hunted elephants and other big game in the forests of Rwanda. This is how I became an ex-poacher
elephant conservation
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Animal welfare advocates have filmed some of the wild elephants captured in Zimbabwe last year and shipped to China
New study shows worrisome signs for Greenland ice