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Warmer winters mean world’s highest places may store less carbon
At high altitudes, global warming is having its strongest effect on winter temperatures – and that might mean soils there store less carbon than we expected
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How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes
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Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going back
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Extreme hurricane season is here and it is fuelled by climate change
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Growing number of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
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Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an ‘astounding’ rate
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Technology
Bill Gates’s Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future
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Ancient plankton suggests extreme El Niños will become twice as common
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Here’s how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans
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Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night
An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced by aircraft have a net cooling effect in the daytime because they reflect sunlight back into space
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Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice
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Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague
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Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
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Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon’s worst-ever drought
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