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CO<sub>2</sub> set to hit levels not seen in 50 million years by 2050

Earth

CO2 set to hit levels not seen in 50 million years by 2050

We are pumping CO2 into the atmosphere so fast that by the middle of this century the gas could soar to its highest levels for 50 million years

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EPA

Earth

US bill restricts use of science in environmental policymaking

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The Columbia glacier

Earth

Warming drives Alaskan glacier to its lowest point in 900 years

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A badger burying a cow

Life

Badger filmed burying a whole cow by itself in Utah mountains

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Sunset from the International Space Station

Earth

Geoengineering the sky is scary but we need to test it now

Comment

Earth

Environment

US climate science in the firing line for Trump's first budget

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Aqueduct and Sierra Nevada mountains

Earth

Quarter of California’s snowpack loss is from human-made warming

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food artwork

Earth

Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk

Features

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3

Humans

Trump's tragic budget kills vital science to boost defence

Comment

Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

Health

Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl

A first look at a top secret report shows that Moscow scientists studied the impacts of nuclear bomb tests on civilians, but the results were never made public

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Earth

Indian Ocean version of El Niño behind drought in East Africa

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Earth

Forget snow, rain will become main precipitation in the Arctic

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Earth

EPA boss says carbon dioxide not primary cause of climate change

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Earth

Green thinking in the era of Trump

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