The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during...
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Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in...
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NEW ORLEANS — On an overcast day in April, on the edge of Chalmette Battlefield, a few miles outside the city, Liz Marchio exami...
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Capturing carbon by increasing forest cover has become central to the fight against climate change. But there's a problem. Sometim...
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Every year, more than a billion people sweat their way through India and Pakistan's dreaded heatwaves, which usually begin in lat...
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In the midst of the African rainforest, one elusive animal wreaks havoc on vegetation – and in doing so, offers a big favour for...
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Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according ...
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More than 92,000 solar panels in the shape of plum blossoms, floating on the surface of a reservoir in South Korea, offer a vision...
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Once you know what plankton can do, you’ll understand why fertilising the ocean with iron is not such a crazy idea...
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Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the “skin” covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This “biocru...
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As sea levels rise, temperatures become unbearable, and disasters grow more severe, tens of millions of people may not be able to ...
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Planting more trees is one of a combination of solutions to combating climate change, but some trees are far better than others. W...
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