Extreme flooding in Germany caused roads and railways to be cut off.
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Sci-fi classic The Sheep Look Up has lessons for today on environmental change, says an expert.
Cryptocurrency’s environmental impact is raising concerns.
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Blockchain technology can be made greener if we change the way transactions happen.
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Australia is one of the world’s top exporters of grain. Producing it at lower emissions is crucial for global climate action.
Homes overlook a forest in the wildland-urban interface in Arizona.
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A new study maps vegetation’s fire risk across the West and shows where population in the highest-risk areas from California to Texas is booming.
Mountain glaciers are under threat from global warming.
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Glaciers in North America, Europe and the Andes, in particular, have significantly less ice than people realized.
Southern Africa’s summer rainfall regions currently experiencing the wet-season will likely continue having wetter than normal conditions.
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Southern Africa’s current above-average rainfall is a climate variability signal - a short-term fluctuation in average wet-season conditions.
Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth’s climate to fight global warming.
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The risks of using aerosols to reflect sunlight and cool the planet include creating extreme weather and worsening catastrophes.
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Climate change is throwing plants and pollinators out of sync.
The alpine skiing course at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 2, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. All the snow at this year’s Olympic venues is machine-made.
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An analysis of 21 former Winter Olympic venues found that only one of them would be suitable and offer safe racing conditions for athletes if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
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Some trees explode into bits when lightning strikes. Some seem fine and die later. But others are unaffected.
Transplanting lettuce seedlings from greenhouses to fields in mid-May at VanderWeele Farm in Palmer, Alaska.
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Homegrown tomatoes and corn in Alaska? Climate change could make it possible in the 2030s and ‘40s – a rare silver lining for this fast-warming state.
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The proposal is likely to mean economic and diplomatic costs for Australia, and should ring alarm bells in Canberra.
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Any climate gains from Japan’s shift will be wiped out entirely unless Australia moves to zero-emissions ammonia production.
Predictions indicate that the Madagascar frog Mantella aurantiaca is likely to experience a dramatic decline by 2070.
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While species are and will be affected everywhere by climate change, those already living in a warm climate will reach their tolerance threshold faster.
A recent study found oilsands producers could be four times more likely to default on loans by 2050 if global temperatures stay within 2 C of warming.
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Oilsands producers can expect banks to do extensive reviews of their creditworthiness over the next several months.
Boston got socked with nearly 2 feet of snow in late January 2022.
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Winters are getting warmer, yet Bostonians were digging out from nearly 2 feet of snow from a historic blizzard in late January. Why is the Northeast seeing more big snowstorms like this?
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Labor wants to run the Kurri Kurri gas power station on green hydrogen. But the figures don’t stack up.
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Marine heatwaves will happen so often that reefs will struggle to weather successive bleaching events.
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Around 17% of the mainland coastline is affected.
Heavy rainfall and degrading peatland are putting archaeological artefacts at increased risk of decay.
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Increasing rainfall and degrading peatland are threatening archaeological artefacts buried in UK land.