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Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards during its amazing 65,000-kilometre journey

Seabirds are the sentinels of ocean health and are also the most rapidly declining birds on the planet, and the odyssey of the sooty shearwater highlights many of the obstacles...

Climate change: Iceland without ice is just "land"

Iceland, a land forged by fire and ice, is losing the latter.

Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons

A decade of blanketing Africa with pyrethroids has fuelled resistance to this frontline chemical weapon in the war against malaria. Now immune mosquitoes are spreading quickly...