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The ancient arthropod, whose blue blood underpins global vaccine safety testing, is among ten finalists in the Guardian's annual poll. Voting closes ahead of a result due on 17 August.
Europe is heating up at roughly twice the global average rate, according to the EU's Copernicus climate service, and this summer's heatwaves have already caused thousands of excess deaths across the continent.
A female Amur tiger named Umit has been released into a Kazakh nature reserve, marking the first practical step in a decade-long plan to restore a big cat population lost since the mid-20th century.
After the US National Science Foundation rejected renewed funding for a 64-year marmot study, UCLA researchers turned to OnlyFans to raise money. The account, called OnlyMarms, is free and strictly G-rated.
Simultaneous fires in France and Spain have triggered one of Europe's largest peacetime evacuations in decades, burning a combined area larger than any previous wildfire in Spanish history. A fresh surge in temperatures threatens to undo the fragile progress firefighters have made.
A week of record-breaking temperatures in June wiped £1.15 billion from the UK economy in lost output and stripped 24 million hours from the working week, according to new research from the London School of Economics and an Italian climate institute.