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Earth breaching key warming threshold in 2029
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In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate

A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate.
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air pollution heats and cools the planet
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How air pollution heats and cools the planet

Some types of air pollution slow global warming — but at the cost of millions of deaths a year.
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Montreal Protocol & ozone depletion
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By fighting the ozone hole, we accidentally saved ourselves

With the Montreal Protocol, life on Earth dodged a bullet we didn’t even know was headed our way.
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wildfire smoke from Australia affected climate events
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How wildfire smoke from Australia affected climate events around the world

New research implicates emissions from the 2019-2020 Australian fires in the emergence of a three-year super La Niña that fueled droughts in Africa and hurricanes in the Atlantic.

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One of climate change’s great mysteries is finally being solved

For over a decade, the largest scientific uncertainty about how the planet will respond to warming temperatures has come from clouds.
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aerosols counteract warming world
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Tiny aerosols pose a big predicament in a warming world

Fossil fuels are rapidly heating the planet, but their aerosols also help cool it. Just how much, though, is a major uncertainty in climate science.
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Aerosols: Do they make more or brighter clouds?

A volcanic eruption in Iceland has resulted in some scientists rethinking the impact of aerosols on climate change and global warming.
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U.S. Department of Interior nominee Doug Burgum speaks at a podium.

Doug Burgum pushes for fossil fuel expansion as Interior nominee

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Wildfires in Los Angeles bring widespread economic and health fallout

A firefighter running up to a burning section of dry grassland

How raging wildfires overwhelmed Los Angeles suburbs, creating a catastrophe

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Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick for EPA administrator, speaks at a podium.

Trump’s EPA pick faces Senate grilling over climate rollback plans

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Oil industry figures celebrate Trump inauguration with exclusive DC party

Supreme Court tof the United States in Washington, DC.

Supreme Court declines to intervene in key environmental and climate disputes

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Closing coal plants in environmental justice communities first would save more lives: Study

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Climate change could cut global GDP in half by late 21st century