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Climate change

Environment

Are plans for a carbon-negative power plant too costly to be worth it?

UK energy firm Drax wants to transform a biomass power plant in the north of England into a facility to capture and store carbon, but has seen strong pushback on environmental and economic grounds

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Greenland

Environment

Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

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Environment

Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world

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forest fire

Environment

‘Zombie’ fires in Alaska and Canada may be becoming more common

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iceberg

Environment

World’s largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf

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Life

Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation

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What is fracking? (Oil pumps in Bakken Oil Field)

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flooded region

Environment

Climate change meant Hurricane Sandy caused $8 billion more damage

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Environment

A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears

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Environment

Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

The increasing severity and frequency of droughts in the tropics due to climate change may be accelerating the destruction of Palaeolithic rock paintings in Indonesia

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Life

I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life

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Environment

Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

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Environment

China must act fast to avoid breaching the world’s 1.5°C climate goal

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Environment

President Biden sets new US target of 52 per cent carbon cut by 2030

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