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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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Clothes that cool you, warm you — and make power as you move

In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that switch on cooling and heating when you need it.
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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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Montana officials praise repeal of power plant emission regulations, watchdog groups pan decision

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back greenhouse gas emission requirements for U.S. power plants, which the agency said will save $310 billion, in a press release earlier this month. 
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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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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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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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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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Evidence builds showing climate change could be intensifying El Niño events

As temperatures rise in the future, the number and frequency of strong El Niños could increase even further, some experts say.

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Heatwaves, wildfires expose a third of world to extreme ozone pollution

Heatwaves and wildfires helped expose 34 percent of the world’s population to “extremely poor” ozone air quality in the first eight months of 2026, according to a European Union report.

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Fifty billion seedlings: Can Ethiopia replant its ravaged forests?

Ethiopia is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will survive.

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