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Tesla head Elon Musk (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s climate change prize is empty and worthless

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This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

There’s a straight line from Trump’s trade war with China to the destruction of the Amazon

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(AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

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A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2014 file photo shows a deforested area dotted with blue tarps, marking the area where miners reside, and craters filled with water, caused by illegal gold mining activities, in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Peru's government declared an emergency across a broad jungle region because of mercury contamination, much of it caused by wildcat gold mining. Photographer Rodrigo Abd of The Associated Press and three other journalists in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador won the 2016 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) (AP)

How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

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Tuah, the five month-old Bornean orangutan looks on in the Great Ape Building at Utah's Hogle Zoo Friday, April 10, 2015, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP)

“Poached” takes you into the trenches of wildlife crime

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Why fieldwork is still crucial for science research

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(AP/Achmad Ibrahim)

How one invasive plant can change a rainforest

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(AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

The hidden costs of fieldwork are making science less diverse

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2015, file photo, deer forage after a night of fresh snowfall, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file) (AP)

Animals feel a “landscape of fear” – just like humans

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