Passengers disembark high speed trains at London’s St. Pancras International station in London, UK.
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All modes of high-speed travel come with a cost to the environment.
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The global warming potential of different greenhouse gases is often poorly understood, distorting which are the biggest concern.
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Forests are remarkable at drawing carbon from the atmosphere, and they’re getting better at it. New research highlights how important it is to protect forests so they can help us fight climate change.
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Taxes designed to encourage a green transition can instead penalise smaller businesses and ensure they’re left behind.
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CO₂ will need to be removed from the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic heating. Can the process be incentivised?
Industrial activity is a major emitter of CO₂.
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An innovative method of carbon capture and storage could substantially reduce the emission of small industries while using geothermal energy to heat homes and thus replacing fossil-fuel energies.
What lies beneath? Not a lot.
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Areas of the UK may lose their topsoil in little over a century according to new research.
Montréal is one of the most congested cities in Canada. In 2018, a total of 145 hours per capita were lost by people stuck in rush hour traffic.
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Traffic congestion causes more problems than just being stuck in traffic. There are real effects on the health, quality of life and wallets of taxpayers.
A lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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Lakes are the final resting place for many of the Earth’s plants – and these organic graveyards are about to get a whole lot busier.
Old and new in Milton Keynes, UK.
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Developers pay more tax to refurbish than demolish and rebuild – but there’s a very easy fix.
Close-up of a marine nitrogen fixer colony.
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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help tropical phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide, creating a biological pump in the oceans.
Sulfur pollution causes respiratory health problems.
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Sulfur contaminates gasoline and coal, and when these fuels are burned, sulfur dioxide is emitted, causing pollution and respiratory issues. Now there may be a new, cheaper way to remove it.
Shouting out loud.
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Scientists from all over the world agree that the impacts of climate change will get worse, unless action is taken now.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite makes precise measurements of Earth’s carbon dioxide levels from space.
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Carbon dioxide makes up less than one-twentieth of 1% of Earth’s atmosphere. How does this relatively scarce gas control Earth’s thermostat?
Smoke from a coal-fired Beijing power plant that closed in 2017 as part of China’s transition to cleaner energy.
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The United Nations is calling on world governments to step up action against climate change. Can China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, fulfill its pledges?
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The Amazon will take a lifetime to recover from this year’s fires – if it ever does.
Women fetching water from a borehole drilled by an aid foundation in Babile, Ethiopia.
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Parts of Ethiopia will likely be hotter, drier, and more water stressed - with consequences for human and economic development.
Fighting fire during training session.
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What exactly is inside those red fire extinguisher canisters, and does it work better than water?
It’s been four decades since the first credible, global report on the effect of carbon dioxide on the global climate.
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Scientists introduced credible climate change to the world in 1979, but it’s taken decades for their message to sink in.
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Could our best shot at stopping climate catastrophe be restoring forests on a massive scale?