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climate

How everyone decided trees will save the planet – and why they won’t

Earth

How everyone decided trees will save the planet – and why they won’t

Everyone seems to agree trees are a major solution to climate change, but there is a danger that mass reforestation could see us to continue pumping carbon into the atmosphere

Insight

Svalbard doomsday vault gets first big seed deposit since upgrade

Environment

Svalbard doomsday vault gets first big seed deposit since upgrade

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Climate protest

Environment

UK government refuses request to explain cost of hitting net zero

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Jenny Offill’s sharp new novel Weather examines individual anxieties about the climate emergency.

Environment

Weather by Jenny Offill review: A powerful portrait of climate anxiety

Culture

Antarctic ice melt could push sea levels to rise 1.5 metres by 2100

Environment

Antarctic ice melt could push sea levels to rise 1.5 metres by 2100

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Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders

Humans

Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders

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The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought

Environment

The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought

Analysis

Extreme hot days and nights to soar by 2100 even in best-case scenario

Environment

Extreme hot days and nights to soar by 2100 even in best-case scenario

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Record-breaking hot years look set to continue through the next decade

Environment

Record-breaking hot years look set to continue through the next decade

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Lyme disease cases may rise 92 per cent in US due to climate change

Health

Lyme disease cases may rise 92 per cent in US due to climate change

Climate change could nearly double new cases of Lyme disease by the end of the century in the US, even if the world manages to limit warming to levels agreed under the Paris climate deal

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Life

Climate change is killing off bumblebees in Europe and North America

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Environment

Net zero goals are galvanising action on climate change at long last

Comment

Environment

We can’t let Boris Johnson politicise crucial COP26 climate talks

Comment

Environment

We need nuclear power to fight climate change, but is it doomed?

Insight

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