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<title>Beetle re-emerges after 60 years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The short-necked oil beetle was found by an amateur entemologist during a wildlife survey on National Trust (NT) land between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail. The beetles were last recorded at Chailey Common, Sussex in 1948.]]></description>
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<title>Bird extinction rates far worse than realised</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every year another species of bird vanishes forever, new research suggests, an extinction rate four times higher than traditional estimates. Furthermore, the analysis predicts that by the end of the century the rate will accelerate to 10 extinctions per year. The work was carried out by Peter Raven, at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis, US, and colleagues. By the year 2100, Raven adds, 


we will see total homogenisation 


 an end to regional diversity. The same few bird species will be seen everywhere, whether they are native or not".]]></description>
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<title>Crater Could be Linked to &quot;Great Dying&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ralph von Frese, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University, led a research team that uncovered a crater-like circular ridge buried under more than a mile of Antarctic ice that he believes may be linked to the mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic period, also known as "The Great Dying".]]></description>
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