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climate

Environment

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world

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BRAZIL - MAY 05: The Trans-Amazonian highway, Amazonas State, Brazil. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Environment

The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point

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Solar panels on the North Barren Mountain in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China

Environment

Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

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Environment

Earth is now gaining less heat than it has for several years

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Earth

Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did two decades ago

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C8FAG5 York Minster, northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England,UK

Environment

Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong

Comment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

Environment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

Culture

Environment

Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail

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Environment

The mystery of the missing La Niña continues – and we don't know why

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Environment

Can sensor technology stop a wildfire before it starts?

The US Department of Homeland Security is trialling chemical sensors that detect the first whiff of smoke in the air and alert fire crews while a potential blaze is still smouldering

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Society

What the US election will mean for AI, climate action and abortion

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Environment

Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

Culture

Environment

Warmer winters mean world’s highest places may store less carbon

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Environment

How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes

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