Earth is getting darker and it’s changing the planet’s climate balance
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He knew Greenland's melting ice better than anyone. Then he disappeared into it.
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Climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely, study says
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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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Not every day that Father Christmas briefs his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30°C for days on end
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New study attributes nine trillion dollars of climate change related damages to just five companies, and outlines how they could be held accountable for specific local damages
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In 2024, the warmest year on record in Europe according to the EU's Copernicus system, Swedish and Norwegian glaciers melted by an average of 1.8 metres
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In 2019, scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water – photo quickly went viral as it revealed reality of Greenland's rapidly melting ice
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As warmer Finnish winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals use to raise their young, humans are giving them a helping hand
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The Swedish photographer capturing the vanishing glaciers – Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer
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Climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year
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Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border
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Maelstrom under Greenland's glaciers could slow future sea level rise – pioneering mission into mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
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I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.
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Monday breaks the record for the hottest day ever on Earth
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Research on Earth’s raging fever of 2023-24 is picking up
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New Environmental Protection Agency regulation requires coal plants in the US to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
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Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks.
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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Developing countries emit 2/3 of the world's carbon: they can't afford the lending terms of renewable projects
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Nations at climate summit agree to move away from fossil fuels
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Denmark, Finland and Panama aim to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit – that will take giving nature a boost
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In the face of mounting climate risks, the US insurance safety net is falling apart
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Earth briefly surpasses key climate threshold for first time
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Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
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One huge contradiction is undoing our best climate efforts
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Greenland's massive ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets – but even then quick action could stabilize it
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New research suggests Antarctica warming faster than previously thought
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Scientists at the Askö research base in Sweden are investigating a methane mystery – levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly and nobody is quite sure why
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
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Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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UN Chief proclaims 'era of global boiling' as July set to be hottest month ever recorded
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Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world.
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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World Meteorological Organization says Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world
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We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming (2018)
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate
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World's northernmost permanent settlement, Longyearbyen, is estimated to be heating at six times the global average – so what is being done to save it?
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How sand made from crushed glass rebuilds Louisiana’s shrinking coast | World Wide Waste
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Why did the US military dig a tunnel in the Alaskan tundra? What is the tunnel used for now?
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This is what 3°C of global warming looks like
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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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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An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
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