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Why is Hurricane Beryl of so much global scientific concern?

Posted by July 3, 2024

Major storm batters Caribbean earlier and with more ferocity than in previous seasons.A hurricane rips through the Caribbean – causing devastation, but alarm

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Why is July the hottest month of the year?

Posted by July 1, 2024

EXPLAINERThe world has faced its 12th straight month of historic heat, with this summer on track to be among the hottest yet.While summer has only just begun in

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A right to drink? Inside the debate to protect US…

Posted by June 25, 2024

Dallas, Texas – More than a decade later, Eva Marroquin’s voice still shakes when she talks about it. The 51-year-old mother of five had been working constr

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How 2024’s US election could affect the global fight against…

Posted by June 20, 2024

With climate change fuelling more extreme weather events around the world — from record wildfires to powerful hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and drought — U

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‘The future is dark’: Inside the Brazilian businesses shattered by…

Posted by June 11, 2024

Rambo’s store is one of around 45,000 businesses in the state capital that have been impacted by these devastating floods. Porto Alegre’s Chamber of Store M

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Photos: Nepal’s honey gatherers say fewer hives threaten tradition

Posted by June 6, 2024

Aita Prasad Gurung dangles off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees

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‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief calls for ban on…

Posted by June 5, 2024

Antonio Guterres urges a 30 percent cut in global fossil fuel production and use by 2030 amid record high temperatures.Each of the past 12 months ranked as the

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If we are to lower food prices and support farmers,…

Posted by June 5, 2024

Land restoration is the key to a well-functioning food system, healthier nature and stable climate.In recent years, people everywhere have endured soaring foo

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How do activists sustain momentum while advocating online?

Posted by June 4, 2024

We’ll explore how organisers find new ways to ‘beat the algorithm’ and keep their audiences – and themselves – engaged.Social media fatigue and desens

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Tripling clean electricity by 2030 ‘achievable’, says leading energy report

Posted by June 4, 2024

A global goal to triple the production of electricity from clean sources such as solar and wind power by 2030 is “ambitious but achievable”, says the world

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Photos: Four dead as floods sweep southern Germany

Posted by June 4, 2024

Rescuers battled to evacuate people from flooded areas in southern Germany that have claimed four lives, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it a “warning” tha

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Why are South Korean babies and children suing their government?

Posted by June 1, 2024

As a 20-week-old embryo, Choi Hee-woo became one of the world’s youngest-ever plaintiffs by joining a landmark climate lawsuit against South Korea. In late Ma

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