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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years
The loss of Antarctica’s ice has been accelerating ominously since 2012, and could lead to big rises in sea level if the rate of loss keeps increasing
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Africa’s 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off
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Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat
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A day used to be less than 19 hours long 1.4 billion years ago
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The Great Barrier Reef has died 5 times in the last 30,000 years
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
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Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought
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We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much
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Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought
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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
A gene variant that helps humans cope with colder climates also seems to have put people living in northerly regions at a higher risk of migraine
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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them
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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away
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