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Lake Baikal ice

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The sparkling ice hummocks of the world’s biggest lake

Temperature and pressure differences in the water of Russia’s Lake Baikal cause cracks to form, and great transparent slabs of ice rise off the surface

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What to expect if Indonesia's volcano erupts in a big way

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What to expect if Indonesia's volcano erupts in a big way

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Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050

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Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050

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VIIRS

Space

Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes

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Adelie penguins

Life

Let's hope chickless penguin colony can come back from the brink

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Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

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Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

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Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

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Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

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Tesla's new trucks

Technology

Tesla's electric trucks are great but they won't save the planet

Insight

A factory with large plumes emanating from its chimneys

Earth

Bad news: Carbon emissions have suddenly started rising again

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know

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When it comes to climate, Donald Trump is in a club by himself

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Earth

What we're doing now will make the ocean completely unliveable

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Earth

Planting trees could mop up ten years’ worth of greenhouse gases

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Europe and the US were most responsible for deadly heatwave

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