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COP27: Causes for concern, and hope, ahead of the big climate summit

A year on from the make-or-break climate conference in Glasgow, nations have failed to make progress of cutting emissions. But there are reasons for optimism from beyond the meeting rooms

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13007378a) A cow grazes on the dried-up bed of a natural pond on a hot summer day, amid the ongoing heatwave in New Delhi, India on June 27, 2022. The intense and prolonged heatwave has damaged the wheat crop, and made conditions for people who work outside very difficult. Climate scientists say the prolonged heatwave is undoubtedly the result of global heating. INDIA-WEATHER-HEAT, New Delhi - 27 Jun 2022

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Most days could be dangerously hot for 5 billion people by 2100

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Satellite image of drought in western Europe

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Europe’s extreme drought is exacerbating food and energy crises

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Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

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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

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Climate change may increase the spread of viruses between land mammals

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In September 2017, the Atlantic Ocean was brewing with several large hurricanes. This view of the hurricanes, and our home planet, was created by assembling images acquired throughout Sept. 6, 2017 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi-NPP.

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Climate change may mean Atlantic has fewer but more intense hurricanes

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After deadly floods, can Germany adapt to its climate future?

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After deadly floods, can Germany adapt to its climate future?

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devastating coral bleaching due to global warming. These corals are dying.

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Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear with 2°C of global warming

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TOPSHOT - The sun sets near a windmill in Palmdale, California where temperatures reached 106 degree Fahrenheit (41.1 degrees Celsius) today, July 12, 2021. - Wildfires were burning across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada on Monday, as scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

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Climate change made the past 7 years the warmest on record

The UN's World Meteorological Organization found that 2021 was the seventh hottest year to date, at 1.11°C above pre-industrial levels

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Methane's climate impact was just one truth finally accepted at COP26

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Trees cool the land surface temperature of cities by up to 12°C

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We need behaviour change to beat climate crisis, says Patrick Vallance

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Satellites find close to 800 methane leaks in past four years

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