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Blasts from the past: how ice age ponds are coming back...
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Young people resume global climate strikes calling for urgent action
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‘Sliding towards extinction’: koala may be given endangered listing as numbers...
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England, 2020. Every single river and lake is polluted beyond legal limits. Not one is free from toxic chemicals from industries past and present....
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