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Pencil pines in Tasmania. Researchers say 19 of the 20 ecosystems they examined are experiencing potentially irreversible changes, including species loss. Photograph: Auscape/UIG via Getty Images
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Leading scientists working across Australia and Antarctica have described 19 ecosystems that are collapsing due to the impact of humans and warned urgent action is required to prevent their complete loss. A groundbreaking report...details the degradation of coral reefs, arid outback deserts, tropical savanna, the waterways of the Murray-Darling Basin, mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and forests stretching from the rainforests of the far north to Gondwana-era conifers in Tasmania.

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