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‘Flying rivers’ of moist air from the Amazon combined with a warming planet have the potential to produce more rain, say scientists.
On a regional scale, global warming exceeded the Paris agreement’s upper climate target in the northern hemisphere.
The climate ‘flickered’ between wet and dry, before finally drying out for good.
These are some of the most complex and important pieces of software ever written.
The result shows climate change education in schools must become more holistic and empowering, and children should be allowed to shape the future they will inherit.
Climate scientists have simulated Arrakis as a desert and with its long-lost oceans.
To narrow our predictions of global sea level rise, we need to know more about these sudden ‘non-linear’ changes to ice sheets.
Undersea ‘fire-ice’ is vulnerable to leaking greenhouse gas, finds new study.
Is reaching net zero emissions by 2050 enough to halt warming? One leading scientist says no.
Coral reefs are already being lost, and four other vital climate systems may tip soon.
New research finds fresh water losses are concentrated in South America, most of Africa and much of Australia.
The ice will survive if temperatures are soon brought back down – new study.
The preliminary global-average temperature anomaly for September is a shocking 1.7°C. These are the drivers of current record-breaking heat.
Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.
Parts of Argentina and the Chilean Andes experienced some of their highest temperatures on record.
More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.
Expect more extremes and a range of ‘surprises’ to exacerbate the climate emergency.
A thin layer of surface water has been baked by the sun.
A short history of predicting an ice-free Arctic – and why you should listen to this one.
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