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Past emissions have ‘locked in’ climate damage. Can we change course?

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More than 12 trillion tonnes of ice lost in climate change's big melt

Ice loss began accelerating in the 1990s, according to a major scientific study.

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Europe named most 'unusually hot place’ on Earth after sizzling summer

“These past three months are a warning sign we cannot afford to ignore – the human and economic costs of fossil fuels are playing out in real time.”

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The 5 positive tipping points that could ‘rapidly’ heal the world

“For too long a sense has prevailed that solutions to the climate and nature are out of reach. This new research explodes that myth once and for all.”

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Mediterranean Sea now at spa temperature, daily average 28.54°C on 13 August

On 13 August the Mediterranean averaged 28.54°C, its highest level since comparable records began in 1940, Aemet reports, capping a summer with the warmest July on record at sea and in mainland Spain.

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Glacier marriages: An ancient solution to a modern problem

Local communities in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan are turning to the Indigenous practice of glacier grafting as water shortages take hold.

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Glacier at centre of Nepal disaster had been retreating for 35 years

Nepal has contributed little to the emissions driving global warming yet it is suffering the worst consequences.

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Hungary’s lakes and rivers hit record lows as severe drought deepens

Hungary is facing a severe water crisis, with prolonged heat and drought driving water levels sharply lower. Around 99% of the country is under severe or extreme drought, while desertification threatens the Great Hungarian Plain.

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Drought on Serbia's Sava River reveals long-lost WWII shipwreck

Serbia has seen the remains of a century-old steam tug emerge from the Sava River near Sremska Mitrovica, after prolonged heat and drought drove water levels exceptionally low.

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Heatwaves push air conditioning to top of French property wish lists

French homebuyers now place much greater weight on a property's exposure, shutters, air conditioning, ventilation and nearby trees to shield them from heat.

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UN urges Europe to bolster renewables amid ‘mega fires’. Here’s why

Climate change made recent fire-prone conditions at least twice as likely in southwestern France and at least 20 times as likely in central Spain, new analysis shows.

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‘Warmer-than-normal August’ looms: Why is Europe so hot this summer?

"The exceptionally warm Mediterranean Sea is leaving a fingerprint on land, and in several places it shows up in the nights rather than the afternoons.”

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EU criticised over major shakeup of its flagship emissions policy

Proposed reforms to the bloc’s emissions trading system (ETS) have been described as a “gift to polluters”.

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Should FIFA consider rescheduling the World Cup amid extreme heat?

Experts have called on World Cup stadium owners to retrofit their buildings to better deal with blistering temperatures.

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Worst week of summer begins as Spain braces for 45ºC heat

Spain's Met Office Aemet says from Tuesday the country will face its third summer heatwave, with highs up to 45°C, as major wildfires rage in Zaragoza and Guadalajara.

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What it's really like living in one of the world's hottest towns

Residents in of Earth's hottest spots share how extreme temperatures, fuelled by the burning of fossil fuels, is making daily life a gruelling challenge.

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The map predicting agricultural decline from climate change

A CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that forecasts, on a 10‑kilometre grid, how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100; Spain’s interior fares worse than the Cantabrian coast.