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waste pile

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How can India clean up when all of its waste has an afterlife?

Waste has a complicated cultural significance in India. A new book looks at how that affects the country's efforts to get clean

Culture

lake

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Acid bath: The new threat to lakes and rivers

Features

Baffin Bay

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Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Greenland

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Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

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World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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The Antarctic is melting even in the middle of subzero winter

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The Antarctic is melting even in the middle of subzero winter

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

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2017 was the year of the biggest fire storms ever seen

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Antarctica still losing ice despite big rise in snowfall

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Spending on renewables in rich countries has halved in six years

Analysis

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Congestion charge can cut childhood asthma attacks by half

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