Fake snow could make it growBernd Zoller/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock Glacier dying? Snow problem! At least that’s the theory behind a pioneering – and outlandish – attempt to save a landmark glacier in …
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Where do the plates go?USGS The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but at least there’s now a map to get you there. The map is the …
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Mind-boggling changes already expected hereDesign Pics Inc/Getty With his executive order to open up the Arctic to drilling, Donald Trump is skating on thin ice. The president’s attempt to overthrow …
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Taking cars off the road is one way to beat air pollution “Unlike finding a cure for cancer, we know how to tackle this problem because we’ve done it before,” …
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Stuart Hay/Australian National University/PA Wi Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new research suggests. Scientists came to …
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Climate-related cases are on the riseLuke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you can’t beat them, sue them. Citizens are increasingly taking governments to court over climate change inaction, with financial …
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Icy on top… but hot down belowNASA/GSFC The plume of hot rock that sits beneath Iceland has long-reaching fingers – two of which stretch all the way to Scotland and …
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Will the Paris agreement be implemented?Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Climate change in a “Trump world” in which the Paris agreement isn’t implemented could see the goal to limit warming to 1.5°C breached …
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Tony Margiocchi / Barcroft Media via Getty Diesel driven cars, lorries and buses churn out far more air pollution than standard testing procedures suggest, leading to many thousands of unreported …
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Plastic in paradiseMichael Brooke/Alamy Stock Phot Nowhere is safe from plastic. A tiny South Pacific island 5000 kilometres from the nearest human occupation has the highest density of washed-up plastic …
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