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Earth
Living with climate change: What’s the worst that can happen?
Features
Earth
Living with climate change: Convincing the sceptics
Features
Earth
World’s largest annual wildlife drowning boosts river ecosystem
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Earth
Billion-dollar dams are making water shortages, not solving them
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Health
Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster
Features
Earth
EU nations set to wipe out forests and not account for emissions
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Earth
We are on track to pass 1.5°C warming in less than 10 years
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Humans
A population paradox could help us outrun our doom
Culture
Environment
Mega-canals could slice through continents for giant ships
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Environment
Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010
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Earth
A year on thin ice: Four seasons in a radically changed Arctic
Features
Health
A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week
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