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New insights into biodiversity hotspots could help protect them from potential deep-sea mining
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Plant hedges to combat near-road pollution exposure
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Staying clean keeps seafish smart
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Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater
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Discovery in northern lakes may be key to understanding early life on Earth
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How Neolithic people adapted to climate change
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Weather satellites aid search and rescue capabilities
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The long memory of the Pacific Ocean
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Greenhouse gases: First it was cows, now it’s larvae
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Addendum: Biomass enables the transition to a carbon-negative power system across western North America
Nature Climate Change 5, 230–234 (2015); published online 9 February 2015; addendum published after print 2 March 2017.
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