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Climate Change
Rising seas, rising stakes: What increasing sea levels mean to humanity
The ocean is rising faster now than at any point in recorded history. The impacts are already being felt and…
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Climate Change
Japan’s ‘2050 Weather Forecast’ highlights extreme heat in the future
As extreme heat becomes an increasingly visible reality across Japan, meteorologists, scientists, businesses and professional footballers are joining forces to…
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Climate Change
The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?
What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it? At a UN desertification conference…
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Europe
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster retelling of The Odyssey has brought the…
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Climate Change
Climate alarm ‘blaring from every direction’
Climate-driven disasters are reaching “nightmare proportions” due to humanity’s “addiction” to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.…
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Europe
Peak heat in Europe just broke historic 1970s records
This year marks the hottest June recorded for Western Europe and the second warmest globally, according to the latest report…
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Climate Change
UN chief: Targeting methane is a climate battle ‘we can win’
Amid efforts to cool global warming, the battle hinges on targeting such super-pollutants as methane, which emits one third of…
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Climate Change
Climate crisis: UN chief lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition
As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued an impassioned appeal for more…
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Americas
Amid crushing European heatwave, things are about to get hotter for transport systems
As European transport officials scramble to deal with melting train tracks and buckling roads amid a crushing heatwave, a UN…
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Climate Change
Triple climate threats affect nearly half the world’s children
Drought, extreme heat and heatwaves are the most prevalent trio of hazards endangering millions of children globally, warned a newly…
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