Water bodies such as the Nile River, pictured here running through Juba in South Sudan, are included in the new model.
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Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
Oyster gatherers on a Wild Coast beach at low tide. The sea is integral to these communities’ lives and culture.
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Indigenous people’s concerns and considerations could provide a strong basis for climate litigation in South Africa.
Trying to stay cool as temperatures soar in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Tens of millions of people have been exposed to conditions that threaten their health.
The pyramids at Giza, like dozens of others, are located several kilometres west of the current path of the Nile.
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Why build pyramids in the desert? A centuries-old puzzle may be answered by the slow wandering of the Nile.
Police remove a protester during a transgender rights rally attended by opposing neo-Nazi protesters, outside Parliament House in Melbourne, Saturday, March 18, 2023.
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The culture wars have been around forever, but keep taking new forms, and US variants threaten to spill over to Australia – as seen in the recent (overturned) ban on same-sex parenting books in Sydney.
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Without a green energy transition Australia won’t meet its emissions reductions promises. But despite punching above its weight for years, the electricity sector isn’t transforming quickly enough.
More than 180,000 people are homeless in the cities of São Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo alone.
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‘Flying rivers’ of moist air from the Amazon combined with a warming planet have the potential to produce more rain, say scientists.
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Even small increases in temperature can stop our brains from functioning optimally.
Heavy seas engulf Block Island, the first US offshore wind farm.
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Plus, a better way to decarbonise the power sector.
Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific.
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Iron-rich dust feeds phytoplankton. They are a key form of life in the Southern Ocean, which acts as a climate shock absorber.
What makes sense for the planet also increasingly does so for business.
Internal carbon prices – also known as shadow carbon pricing – could prod companies into taking decisions that are good for both business and the planet.
Sunday Abiodun, 40, a former poacher turned forest ranger, armed with a sword, looks for poachers inside the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, 2023. Abiodun is now part of a team working to protect the Omo Forest Reserve, which is facing expanding deforestation from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.
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Interventions to prevent crime against wildlife can be effective, but significant gaps in our knowledge remain.
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On a regional scale, global warming exceeded the Paris agreement’s upper climate target in the northern hemisphere.
Forest areas are in sharp decline in many parts of Ghana.
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Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
Wildfire smoke traveling hundreds of miles caused hazy skies all the way to Virginia in 2023.
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States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
A march for climate action in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in June 2015. Pope Francis praised the participants, who included Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus.
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Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders committed to raising awareness of environmental issues draw on centuries of tradition.
Public water shortages have left people scrambling for alternatives on many of the islands, including Cuba.
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Water is everywhere, but freshwater supplies are limited on many Caribbean islands. Rising demand and climate change are worsening water shortages for the people who live here.
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If the needs of both parasites and hosts are met by the niche, they can move in. Increasing biodiversity may therefore be a double-edged sword.
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When it comes to storing carbon, alpine peatlands are powerhouses. But feral horse grazing and trampling tips the carbon balance in the other direction. We need to protect and restore our peatlands.
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These birds are a harbinger of summer – but their arrival, and the seasons, are no longer predictable.