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Kettleman City, CA - Jan 29, 2022: Many cars charging at a Tesla Supercharger station. Supercharger stations allow Tesla cars to be fast-charged at the network within a hour.

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California's electric car boom reduces pollution – but not everywhere

A programme to increase electric vehicle adoption in California increased air pollution in lower-income communities and communities of colour – groups that are less likely to own electric cars

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2H56E72 Activists from Friends of the Earth during a demonstration calling for an end to all new oil and gas projects in the North Sea, starting with the proposed Cambo oil field, outside the UK Government's Cop26 hub during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Sunday November 7, 2021.

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How a campaign to keep fossil fuels underground is gaining traction

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Spanish heatwave: Is climate change behind record heat in Europe?

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Can we use salt to lock away carbon for thousands of years?

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early summer morning Canadian Lynx (Lynx canadensis) in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; Shutterstock ID 1566601432; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Wildfires have drastically reduced lynx habitat in Washington state

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TOPSHOT - Aerial view of homes submerged under flood waters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky, on July 28, 2022. - Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least eight people in eastern Kentucky and left some residents stranded on rooftops and in trees, the governor of the south-central US state said Thursday. (Photo by LEANDRO LOZADA / AFP) (Photo by LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Once-a-century extreme precipitation could occur every 30 years in US

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Norway's Svalbard archipelago viewed from a satellite

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2022 was Europe’s hottest summer but warmer years are likely to come

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Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) grows in a thick, underwater forest near the Channel Islands in California. This area is part of a National Park and is teeming with thousands of marine species.

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Kelp forests capture nearly 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually

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The settlement of Qassiarsuk in Greenland was once probably the site of Brattahlid, the home of Viking Leif Erikson

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Vikings left Greenland after growing ice sheet caused sea level rise

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A well for hydrogen production in Geneva, Nebraska

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World's first drilling project to seek natural hydrogen hits a snag

A well in Nebraska is the first in the world to have been drilled in search of naturally occurring geologic hydrogen, but tests to determine how much of the gas it might supply are on hold because of a broken pump

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Europe to become a hotspot for flash droughts caused by climate change

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Florida floods: How much rain has fallen and could it happen again?

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Climate change is fuelling the spread of viral diseases in plants

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Rich people use so much water that it is threatening the global supply

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