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Photo: 'L'Aquila, Central Italy' by Michele Nastasi/Courtesy of Archivio Lotus InternationalThe Lancet : Volume 374, Number 9707, 19 December 2009
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010This bright green 'flying frog' was newly discovered in the eastern Himalayas in 2007. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images Starting Monday, celebrations and events across the world will highlight the beginning of the UN's Year of International Biodiversity and the loss of our richly varied flaura and fauna, which is estimated to be as high as 1,000 times the natural rate as a result of human activities.

