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Globally, the air is getting hotter and drier, which means flash droughts and risky fire conditions are developing faster and more frequently.
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Sea-level rise isn’t the only climate-related problem for our coasts – extreme waves that cause flooding and erosion are also changing, but exactly how is hard to predict.
Temperature anomaly in Europe, Jan 1. Much of the continent was 10°C or more (dark red and grey) above the long-term average.
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Europe’s recent heatwave was one of the most severe ever.
Mountains are home to a diverse range of plant and animal species.
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Mountain environments are rich in plant and animal species, but the dual threat of human habitation and climate change means urgent action is needed to protect them.
Several areas were hit with 1,000-year floods in 2022.
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A monster hurricane, destructive storms and a drought that disrupted businesses across the economy led the list of the year’s costliest disasters.
Heavy rainfall from an atmospheric river triggered mudslides in the Los Angeles area on Jan. 9, 2023.
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Mudslides start with destabilized land, often from wildfires, and then rain drives the cascading disaster.
An electric bus charging on the side of a street in Montréal. Funding public transit is a good way to reduce greenhouse emissions while ensuring economic equality in moving to clean transportation.
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Rather than promoting individual electric vehicles for lower-income consumers, governments should fund electric public transit instead.
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For years, the ‘safeguard mechanism’ has been widely criticised for lacking teeth. Labor’s new reform doesn’t change that much.
England may flood in February.
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The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.
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The majority of the world’s population identifies with a religion – could their faith be used to save the planet?
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More must be done to ensure the Albanese government truly delivers the emissions reductions it has promised.
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There are a range of new flashpoints and ongoing deadly conflicts the world has largely ignored due to the focus on Ukraine.
Batches of copper sheets stored in a warehouse at Mopani mines, Mufilira, Zambia.
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The coming copper boom presents Zambia with an extraordinary opportunity – not only to enable mining profits, but to power inclusive growth.
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A team of scientists unravelled the mystery of how plant roots make the most of soil moisture.
Scientists say that wasting coffee and water while making a cup of coffee has a larger carbon footprint than using coffee capsules.
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Coffee capsules aren’t the biggest carbon culprits. It’s better to use a capsule than to waste coffee and water.
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If the situation doesn’t change, Africa – indeed, the world – may lose one of its most iconic animal species.
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Companies seen as big polluters suffer little in terms of reputation and sales when they are found making misleading claims about protecting the environment.
Participants during the closing ceremony of the UN Climate Summit COP27. Photo by Christophe Gateau/picture alliance.
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African leaders must take radical actions to strengthen the continent’s voice and participation in future events.
An artist’s reconstruction of the giant Dromornis stirtoni .
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The findings have repercussions today: it is clear that slow-growing animals will be the most vulnerable to extinction amid shifting climates.
Following historic drought in 2021, reservoir levels dropped down in the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, which gets its waters from the melting snowpack from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming.
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Unprecedented droughts leave the subsurface drier than usual, affecting water supply in subsequent years.