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Tortoise shells being smuggled in a battered suitcase.

Expert Comment: How can we effectively regulate international trade in wild species?

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Assorted chocolate biscuits, pralines and bars.

Expert Comment: Why has the price of chocolate become so volatile?

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A pile of assorted medicine pill packets.

Expert Comment: The world’s most important antibiotic has become our greatest challenge

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A colourful bird with a orange and black striped ruff of feathers and a bright yellow hood of head feathers.

Blinded by love: some male pheasants restrict their vision in a bid to impress females

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A white woman with blonde hair wearing a red jacket and black skirt stands at a lectern branded 'National Emergency Briefing'

Expert Comment: National Emergency Briefing - Nature is not a ‘nice-to-have’, it is critical national infrastructure

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A person's hands hold a console showing aerial views of elephants.

New study finds that drones can be a valuable ally in elephant conservation

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Amazon river emerges from the forest with an urban centre in the background. Credit: Anderson Coelho, Getty Images

Expert Comment: Reflections on COP30 in Belém

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The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Sir Paul Nurse, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford and António Simões, Group Chief Executive Officer, L&G at the opening of the Life and Mind building (c) Cyrus Mower

Sir Paul Nurse officially opens the Life and Mind building

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Two orangutans sitting side by side incline their heads together so that their mouths are touching.

Ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely kissed, new analysis finds

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The Earth in outer space with curved lines radiating outwards from pole to pole.

New project aims to reveal nature’s quantum compass

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