The World Wildlife Fund's latest Living Planet Report shows that the world is still consuming more resources than the Earth can replenish.
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The World Wildlife Fund's latest Living Planet Report shows that the world is still consuming more resources than the Earth can replenish.
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The report also highlights a widening and "potentially catastrophic" gap between the ecological footprints of the world's rich and poor nations.
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The report also highlights a widening and "potentially catastrophic" gap between the ecological footprints of the world's rich and poor nations.
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A satellite image of the Canary Islands shows unique cloud formations, created by Von Karman vortices. Named after aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, the vortices form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to split and create eddies in its wake.
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A satellite image of the Canary Islands shows unique cloud formations, created by Von Karman vortices. Named after aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, the vortices form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to split and create eddies in its wake.
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The meticulously planned cultivated landscape of the autonomous communities of Aragon and Catalonia in north-eastern Spain. The circular shape of many of the fields indicates that central-pivot irrigation is being used.
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The meticulously planned cultivated landscape of the autonomous communities of Aragon and Catalonia in north-eastern Spain. The circular shape of many of the fields indicates that central-pivot irrigation is being used.
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A phytoplankton bloom stretches across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe's most northern point, Cape Nordkinn, highlighting the whirls of ocean currents in spectacular shades of blue and green.
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A phytoplankton bloom stretches across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe's most northern point, Cape Nordkinn, highlighting the whirls of ocean currents in spectacular shades of blue and green.
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The heart-shaped northern tip of the South Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation.
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The heart-shaped northern tip of the South Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation.
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