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Crabapple trees flower in Beijing

Kelsey crabappletrees are a sight for sore eyes in spring. Their rose-red petals give out a light fragrance. The flowers bloom in spring before leaves appear. After flo

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COVID-19: Vaccine helps protect endangered black-footed ferrets

02:40 Black-footed ferrets are carnivorous mammals that live in North America, mostly in the U.S. Considered an endangered species, the critters nearly went extinct around 1980."We hav

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Suspend sale of wild animals to prevent viral outbreaks, says WHO

Governments must immediately suspend the sale of live wild mammals in traditional food markets to prevent viral outbreaks of diseases like COVID-19, urged the World Hea

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Rare wild animals captured out and about on China's Mount Emei

00:53 Infrared cameras installed at the Golden Summit, the peak of Mount Emei in southwest China's Sichuan Province, have captured footage of rare wild animal species,

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Crown imperial: The flower that appeared in Van Gogh's painting

Crown imperial is a flowering plant in the lily family. It has a long scape with drooping bell-shaped flowers which appear in red, white or yellow colors. The plant's b

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Beautiful hybrid plum blossoms bloom in Beijing Botanical Garden

Known as "Meirenmei" in Chinese, the Prunus × blireana cv. Meiren, which blooms in spring, is a hybrid flower. They have red leaves and their flowers are larger than co

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Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world

Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by gl

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Yulan Magnolia flowers bloom in Beijing

Yulan Magnolia flowers are in full bloom in Beijing. They are among the first that bloom in spring. The gardens and streets in the capital city are decorated with the b

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Biden plan would spend $16B to clean up old mines, oil wells

President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, a longti

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Pesticide pollution threat looms on two-thirds of global farmland

More than 64 percent of agricultural land globally is at the risk of pesticide pollution, which will contaminate surface and groundwater with toxic chemicals harming humans and wildlife, warned a

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Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung sign deep-sea mining ban

Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung have signed up to a temporary ban on deep sea mining following discussions with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).The four companies have agreed not to source any minerals

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Lights out around the world for Earth Hour

Click arrows to view gallery Lights were switched off around the world Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund for Na

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Let's take a moment to practice gratitude toward our planet

Every year on the last Saturday of March, millions of people around the world turn off their lights at 8:30 p.m. to show their commitment to preserve our planet and to raise awareness about protectin

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Endangered primate spotted in S China

01:00 A pygmy slow loris was recently spotted at Guangxi Nonggang National Nature Reserve in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.It is a rare primate under f

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Six lions found dead in Uganda in suspected poisoning

A male lion perches on a branch in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. /CFP Six lions have been found dead and mutilated in one of Uganda's best-known national parks, a conservation o

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Whales are under significant threat from ship strikes. Could new technology save them?

It's hoped the project will lead to an early warning system to help ships avoid hitting whales and to gather sound pollution data.

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Rescued snow leopard released with satellite collar in Qinghai

01:55 A snow leopard was released back into the wild with a satellite collar after recovering from wounds in northwest China's Qinghai Province.The animal's head was sc