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Kihansi spray toad (Image: IUCN/Tim Herman)
UN 'wake-up call' on nature loss
The UN launches a Year of Biodiversity, warning that the on-going loss of species affects human well-being worldwide.
Species' extinction threat grows
In pictures: Threatened species
World 'to fail' on nature target

Neanderthal (Science Photo Library) Neanderthal 'make-up' discovered
Scientists claim to have the first evidence that Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago.

Baroness Greenfield Science body sued over job loss
The former director of the UK's Royal Institution (RI) is to sue for sexual discrimination after losing her job.

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How aircraft contrails turn into clouds
Red panda at Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford, west England, on 06/01/10 Creature comforts
How the cold snap is affecting the animal kingdom
cylinder of uranium hexaflouride gas at Kazakhstan site Nuclear solution
Uranium 'bank' offers way to stall atomic disputes

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Climate sculpture in Copenhagen (Image: AFP) We must not accept Copenhagen’s failings
killer whale Two killer whale types identified
A green Christmas to all

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