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Gas from thawing Arctic permafrost is changing world's climate future

Scientists warn that thawing permafrost in the Arctic is releasing large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide, adding to global warming.
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.

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Climate change’s compounding pressures on rural North Carolina

Areas like Robeson County face some of the greatest climate risks, but have fewer resources to cope with extreme heat and flooding.
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The surprising allies backing Boulder's climate case before the Supreme Court

Ranchers, conservative legal scholars, and former Republican EPA chiefs are siding against oil companies. Here's why.
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‘Thrilling’: Dutch cattle farmers switch to rice as solution to warmer climate and sinking peatlands

Dutch cattle farming dries out peatland and releases CO2. Is switching to Japanese rice-growing a solution?
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Vietnam's largest city lives with floods as climate change raises the stakes

Ho Chi Minh City has learned to live with flooding as high tides from the Saigon River and smaller waterways regularly inundate roads and businesses.
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The zero-bills home: How one family is beating the energy price hikes

The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump.

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States OK solar panels for balconies. Safety guidelines haven't caught up

The “plug and play” simplicity that creates balcony solar’s appeal might not yet work safely with most household electrical systems, experts and utilities say.

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Australia’s climate chief promises harder line on misinformation

Senior public servant says bureaucrats will speak up about misinformation that risks policy progress.

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Oatly joins climate journalism campaign

The world’s largest producer of oat milk, Oatly, is pushing its customers and their governments to act on climate change, in a new milk carton campaign that's taking off in Europe and is expected in the United States within the next few months.
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El Nino: A deadly 'postcard from the future'

The current El Nino could cause 451,000 excess heat deaths. Researchers warn it offers a glimpse of temperatures that may become normal within 20 years.

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