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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 Maria Paula Rubiano

Rail would rule in a world without planes (Credit: ViewStock/Alamy)
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What if we all stopped flying?
By Jocelyn Timperley
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
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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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
The forest elephant is found across the central African rainforest, where it disrupts vegetation growth (Credit: Getty Images)
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The forest tended by an elusive giant
By Isabelle Gerretsen
In a world of no mining, old wastes and tailings ponds could present an opportunity to access metals (Credit: M.Bernetti/Getty)
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What would happen if we stopped mining?
By Laura Cole
Smog envelopes much of Northern India in the autumn and winter months, blanketing cities in polluted air that comes with extensive health risks (Credit: Getty Images)
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The world's most polluted capital city
By Kamala Thiagarajan
SusGren and its partners now view Ashton Lagoon as fully restored, with over 90% of the mangroves planted in the lagoon still alive. (Credit: Alamy)
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The mangrove that defied destruction
By Jose Alison Kentish
As Europe seeks to decarbonise its energy supply in the long term, and move away from Russian gas in the short term, how much can biogas replace fossil gas? (Credit: Getty Images)
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The alternatives to Russia's gas
By Chris Baraniuk
Some 90% of buildings in Valmeyer were damaged during the floods of summer 1993 (Credit: Dennis Knobloch)
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The town that got up and left
By Marcello Rossi
Massive kites could be a source of power in remote locations, and out in deep waters at sea (Credit: SkySails Group)
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The homes powered by a kite
By Nicola Jones
Charles WW Ng and his team. (Credit: HKUST)
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Hong Kong's answer to landslides
By Matthew Keegan
The arroyo oak's ancestors date back 55 million years (Credit: The Morton Arboretum)
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The puzzle of Mexico's ageing oaks
By Alejandra Martins
Scientists tagged goats for a two year study of their movement patterns to test whether they detect volcanoes (Credit: MPI-AB)
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The animal 'sixth sense' for disaster
By Norman Miller
The Netherlands is a pioneer for water-based developments, as a low-lying country that has had to work alongside the sea for centuries (Credit: Getty Images)
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The country embracing life on water
By Shira Rubin