A proposed scientific balloon flight in northern Sweden has attracted opposition from environmental groups over fears it could lead to the use of solar geoengineering
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history
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How many people did nuclear energy kill?
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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Lapland town of Salla highlights climate crisis with 2032 Olympics campaign – tongue-in-cheek promotional video seeks to highlight alarming climate variations
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It is 100 seconds to midnight: 2021 Doomsday Clock statement
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Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume four billion kWh of energy by 2025
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Sorry, wrong apocalypse: Horizon Zero Dawn, Heaven’s Vault, and the eco-critical video game
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How human activity threatens the world’s carbon-rich peatlands
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Animation representing the global annual temperature anomaly over time, discretised by month, from 1880–2020
@Scott Duncan: Wait for it...Our planet is pulsing warmer and warmer. 2020 will serve as a stark reminder that our climate is continuing to rapidly change.Each bar of colour represents a month of global temperature as we loop through 140 years of data from 1880 to 2020.[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/geNg2kDeYd
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Hawaii is famous for its spectacular beaches. But over the past century, three of the state’s major islands have lost roughly one-quarter of their sandy shores.
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Experts lay out the criteria for choosing Biden's CTO, who will be faced with using tech to tackle everything from climate change to vaccine distribution
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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Planned Harvard balloon test in Sweden stirs solar geoengineering unease
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One of Australia's most famous beaches at Byron Bay is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?
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Is planet Earth full?
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Georgia Power receives first nuclear fuel shipment for Vogtle Unit 3
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'We are speeding in the wrong direction' – climate striker Greta Thunberg speaks before UN event marking five years since the Paris accord
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Climate Change Performance Index – Scandinavian countries power the European Union's climate action but coal-reliant eastern member states lag behind
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Aston Martin in row over 'sock puppet PR firm' pushing anti-electric vehicle study. Report disputing green benefits of EVs attributed to company registered to wife of carmaker’s director.
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How Joe Biden can ensure federal agencies fight climate change
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Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
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Study indicates climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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Covid-19 is a symptom of a planet that's been pushed past a tipping point
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The pandemic, the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement: US emissions drop 7% year on year due to effects of COVID-19
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Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal: Forging a new America
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Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades
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Suing for climate action: Can the courts save us from the black hole of political inaction?
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An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
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Greta Thunberg reflects on living through multiple crises in a 'post-truth society'
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Geoengineering: A horrible idea we might have to try
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Boiling point: Want to stop climate change? Look to farms, forests and wetlands
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Seven species which have evolved at hyperspeed, because of us
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Greta Thunberg has accused MEPs of surrendering on the climate and environment by voting in favour of a watered-down reform of the EU's common agricultural policy
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Restoring farmland could drastically slow extinctions, fight climate change
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The fake futurism of Elon Musk
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Driving the 2021 Cadillac Escalade was one of the most stressful experiences of my life
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Can we save energy, jobs, and growth at the same time?
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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New maps show how climate change is making California's "fire weather" worse
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The Arctic is unravelling, and it’s happening faster than anyone could have imagined just a few decades ago
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The implications of California’s first million-acre fire
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Find air quality near your exact location
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Insurance giant Suncorp to end coverage and finance for oil and gas industry
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Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
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Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions
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Cities without people
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Ammonia on route to fuel ships and planes
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