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Global warming and climate change

The availability of safe lake ice for recreation will decrease, on average, by 13 and 24 days in response to global warming of 1.5°C and 3°C, the scientists say.

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Thinning ice: How climate change is making frozen lakes unsafe

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Egyptians clean up the Nile ahead of COP27

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‘These kids can do anything’: The inspired ideas from this year’s Children’s Climate Prize.

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Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia's founder, has signed away the company he built in 1973.

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Billionaire Patagonia boss gives company away to fight climate crisis

15/09/2022

Electrical storms over southern France

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Torrential rain and floods put much of southern France on orange alert

07/09/2022

Climeworks' Orca carbon capture plant in Iceland with founders Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher.

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Cutting emissions isn't enough to reach net zero. Here's why.

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Emissions contribute to our rapidly warming world - and fossil fuel company projections will 'bust' the Paris agreement

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Shell, BP, Equinox threaten Paris climate goals, warns study

17/08/2022

A resort in Tulum last week, with a barrier of sargassum appearing unusually early in March 2023.

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Foul-smelling seaweed is washing up on Caribbean beaches again

15/08/2022

Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex, the largest oil refinery complex on the US's East Coast, shut down after a fire in 2019.

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These 10 finance firms alone own half of all future carbon emissions

10/08/2022

The month from hell: Firefighters are on the frontline of Europe’s climate crisis

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Burnout: Firefighters look back on July's 'gamechanging' heatwave

07/08/2022