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Dubai skyline reflected, stormy sky, seen from old town

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Fake mountains to make rain? It's last-gasp geoengineering

That a desert nation such as the United Arab Emirates should even think about building a mountain to make it rain is a sign of desperate times, says Jamais Cascio

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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

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Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Ground up mineral in a person's cupped hands

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Adding rocks to oceans could de-acidify water and save coral

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Mangrove in Mahakam Delta 80% destroyed because of tiger shrimp farm, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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A fifth of all plants threatened as habitats shrink worldwide

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Homes in Solomon Islands close to edge of sea

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Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise

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Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert

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Long line of traffic with massive smoke plume above forest

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Canada's huge wildfires may release carbon locked in permafrost

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A pic of okenia rosacea, which is an inch long pink sea slug, covered in tentacles, looking a bit like a sea anemone or a pink mophead

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North Pacific's sea slug invasion linked to mystery ocean blob

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Rainclouds roll in over a field

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Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

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Kingdom-busting volcanoes linked to the rise of the Roman Empire

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Kingdom-busting volcanoes linked to the rise of the Roman Empire

Unrest that spelled the end of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, paving the way for the Roman Empire, may have been triggered by droughts caused by eruptions

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A new politics of climate change could save the world

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An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

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Bear dung helps Japanese cherry trees survive climate change

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Half a degree extra warming would lead to catastrophic impacts

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