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Ecocide must be listed alongside genocide as an international crime |...
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A hare sits on a harvested field next to straw bales near Herrnleis, some 50km north of Vienna, Austria
Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA
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UK government scraps green homes grant after six months
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