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Environment

Death toll rises as thousands seek shelter from Australian bush fires

Twelve people have died and thousands more have been displaced by three months of bush fires in Australia, as temperatures have soared to 45°C

Alexandre de Juniac

Environment

Aviation chief criticises Greta Thunberg and ‘flight-shaming’ movement

Environment

Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions

Greta Thunberg

Environment

The world started to wake up to climate change in 2019 – now what?

Earth

What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

Greta Thunberg

Environment

We live in testing times, but there are many reasons to be optimistic

Demonstrators protest outside the UN Climate Change Conference COP25

Environment

COP25 climate summit ends in ‘staggering failure of leadership’

Thwaites glacier

Geese fly in formation

Technology

Airbus to test flying planes closer together to cut carbon emissions

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Environment

Arctic sea ice may vanish sooner than we thought – it happened before

A strange discrepancy in global temperatures 8000 years ago can be explained if sea ice is more vulnerable to the effects of warming than we thought

Environment

How we predicted global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years ago

Environment

Greenland lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years

Environment

Scientists issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceans

Environment

A vital project for monitoring ocean currents has been saved – for now