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Auckland recently scored highest in a ranking of the 'sponginess' of seven global cities (Credit: S E Barbour/Getty)
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Why Auckland is the 'spongiest' city

By Kate Evans

The bus covers six villages, chosen for having witnessed the most human-elephant conflict (Credit: Ecoexist Trust)
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The elephant buses safeguarding kids
By Calistus Bosaletswe
The blue crab is a resilient species prized in many parts of the world – as it now is in Tunisian fisheries too (Credit: Alamy)
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The crab invading the Mediterranean
By Aïda Delpuech
The peat bogs of Flow Country are full of unusual plants specialised to the region's cool, wet conditions (Credit: Alamy)
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Scotland's most misunderstood landscape
By Martha Henriques
Mine water is cleaned at a facility in the UK (Credit: Coal Authority)
A skyline showing the warm yellow stone of Yazd's wind catching towers (Credit: Alamy)
A close-up shot of the Salvinia water weed (Credit: Alamy)
A man walks past wind turbines in Indonesia at dusk (Credit: Getty Images)
A woman looks at the train times displayed on screens in a station (Credit: Getty Images)

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Rural communities have helped protect endangered species such as pangolins in sacred groves across India (Credit: Alamy)
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How religion is saving species in India
By Kavitha Yarlagadda
Rina Sarkar, a Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteer, during an early warning drill in Chila village, Bangladesh (Credit: Catherine Davison)
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How to stop storms killing women
By Catherine Davison
Southern resident killer whale off San Juan Island, Washington (Credit: M Malleson/Getty)
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The unseen whale killer
By Ally Hirschlag
Architects say mud buildings are resilient to extreme weather, such as heatwaves, floods and earthquakes (Credit: Alamy)
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The ancient material that cools homes
By Isabelle Gerretsen
A man hikes beneath giant Sequoia trees (Credit: Jordan Siemens/Getty)
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Why the world's tallest trees are dying
By Jim Robbins
Imagining the impact of putting all roads underground raises important questions about how our global transport system is developing (Credit: Zhuang Wang/Getty)
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The promise of a world without roads
By Laura Paddison
The Milky Way rises over Lanyon Quoit, a neolithic burial chamber in Land's End, Cornwall (Credit: David Clapp/Getty)
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The English town that welcomed the dark
By Frankie Adkins
Most discarded plastic waste is still with us - entombed in landfills or polluting the environment (Credit: Alamy)
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Could we live without plastic?
By Kelly Oakes
FAO's work with Wayuu communities included improving livestock techniques to keep goats - used for food in hunger emergencies - in better health (Credit: FAO Colombia)
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Predicting famine before it strikes
By María Paula Rubiano A.
A render of the Energy Vault Resiliency Centre™, a variant of Energy Vault's EVx gravity battery building (Credit: Energy Vault™)
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The batteries powered by gravity
By Alasdair Lane
From 2054, Gwynedd Council has said the Welsh village of Fairbourne will no longer be inhabitable. (Credit: Getty Images)
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The UK’s disappearing village
By Isabelle Gerretsen
A hot spring with a temperature of around 100C erupts from a fumerole on Dayoukeng volcano (Credit: Taiwan Volcano Observatory)
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The hidden volcano beneath a city
By Dinah Gardner