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Closure of US institute will do immense harm to climate research

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world – but the Trump administration is set to shut it down

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The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year

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Calving at the front of the Hisinger Glacier in Greenland

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Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2

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China's carbon emissions may have started to fall in 2025

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Firefighters working in Spain in August

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2025 is the second-hottest year since records began

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Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning

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Aerial view of the round structures of the AmazonFACE experiment built in a National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) research area, located 80 km north of Manaus. AmazonFACE is one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted in the Amazon. It simulates, in a tropical forest area, the impact of the increase in atmospheric CO2 predicted for the coming decades. Using FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) technology, the project seeks to understand how climate change will affect the forest, its biodiversity, and the beneficial functions it currently carries out.

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Testing the Amazon's ability to soak up increasing carbon emissions

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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past

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Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts

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Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today

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The 13 best popular science books of 2025

Culture

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Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread

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Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf

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