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TOPSHOT - Activists from the climate change group Extinction Rebellion (XR) take part in a protest in Glasgow on November 8, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - The COP26 climate talks resuming Monday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host country Britain during week one riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus among nearly 200 countries. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans

In Glasgow, 196 countries promised to "revisit and strengthen" their plans for curbing emissions, but there is little sign of this happening before the next talks in November

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New Delhi

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India's extreme heatwaves show the need to adapt to a warming world

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We have 48% chance of breaching 1.5°C target by 2026, says Met Office

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A power station in North Yorkshire, UK

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Inside big tech's $925 million plan to speed up carbon removal

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Our Time On Earth at Barbican, London

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Our Time on Earth: Can creativity tackle the climate emergency?

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SHANKSVILLE, PA - MAY 20: For the 6th consecutive year ,volunteers plant trees in a field at the Flight 93 National Memorial as part of a re-forestation initiative in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on May 20, 2017. The volunteers added 11,600 new seedlings across 17 acres of reclaimed mining ground. (Photo by Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Planting trees rather than bioenergy crops sucks more CO2 from the air

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It worked with cigarettes. Let's ban ads for climate-wrecking products

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It worked with cigarettes. Let's ban ads for climate-wrecking products

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Full moon over an iceberg at dusk, Saqqaq, Disko Bay, Greenland, September 2009

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The moon has a small but noticeable effect on climate change

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Fish in the Ceram Sea off Indonesia

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Extreme global warming could see major ocean life extinction

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Cloud of Flying-foxes in riparian monsoon forest on escarpment of central range, Broadmere Station, western Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia

Life

Climate change may increase the spread of viruses between land mammals

Models of mammal migration in response to 2°C of global warming show that there could be more than 4500 new types of viral transmission between species by the end of the century

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EU plan for cutting emissions from planes could end up increasing them

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Rock dust can meet half of the UK's net-zero carbon removal target

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We can now tell how much CO2 in the air is due to fossil fuel burning

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Humans

Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked

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