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A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa challenges a long-standing scientific narrative about the decline of ...

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Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published in Nature ...