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U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
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More than 30 South Korean college students shaved their heads in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul to protest Japan's decision to release water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, Hyun Yi reports 1/4
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People recovering from COVID-19 may suffer from significant brain function impacts, with the worst cases of the infection linked to mental decline equivalent to the brain ageing by 10 years, researchers warn 1/5
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A shiny metal monolith vanished from Romania’s mountainous Neamt county, four days after its sudden appearance close to an ancient Dacian fortress sparked speculation it may be related to a mystery structure seen in the United States 1/4
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LIVE: Volcano erupts in Iceland after weeks of earthquake activity
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A tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth, scientists said they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor
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A third of COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said
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Researchers unveiled the first calculation of the total Tyrannosaurus rex population during the estimated 2.4 million years that this fearsome species inhabited western North America during the twilight of the age of dinosaurs 1/5
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A group of researchers is proposing that Tyrannosaurus, the most famous of all dinosaurs and the ultimate apex predator, actually includes three species and not just the single T. rex, based on thighbone and tooth variations among dozens of its fossils.
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A Dutch inventor has come up with what he hopes could be a potentially faster and easier method to screen for coronavirus infections: screaming 🗣️ 1/4
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Spurred on by soaring demand for seafood, a Spanish company plans to open the first commercial octopus farm next year but as scientists discover more about the enigmatic animals some warn it could be an ethical and environmental disaster 1/6
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Last year, researchers at the London School of Economics concluded from a review of 300 scientific studies that octopus were sentient beings capable of experiencing distress and happiness, and that high-welfare farming would be impossible 6/6
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Australian scientists and artists are looking to hold the world accountable for the Earth's future by creating an 'indestructible' storage device to record humanity's handling of the climate change crisis 1/5
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Smoke from the fires covered the entire West Coast last week before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. This week the smoke has traveled thousands of miles east, turning skies hazy from New York to Washington, D.C., and reaching as far as Britain 1/7
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Iceberg A68a has been on a slow journey toward cataclysm. The mass broke from the Antarctic peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, sliding through the water for over two years via
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The planet is showing signs it’s in peril. Recently, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the U.S., torrential rains in Africa, weirdly warm temperatures on the surface of tropical oceans and record heat waves from California to the Siberian Arctic
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Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey's Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate change and agricultural irrigation methods 1/5
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Police periodically dispersed crowds, who chanted and held placards, but did not stop the event from taking place, though there is an anti-pandemic ban on gatherings larger than 10 people 2/4
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Malaysia said it sent 267 containers of illegal plastic waste back to their countries of origin since 2019 and is in the process of returning 81 more 1/4
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Previous efforts to farm octopus have struggled with high mortality, while attempts to breed wild-caught octopus ran into problems with aggression, cannibalism and self-mutilation 4/6
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Temperatures dropped across Brazil - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frost 1/5
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The protesters who were shaved were draped in protective sheets emblazoned with messages condemning the Japanese plan and calling for it to be ditched 3/4
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Their analysis put the total number of T. rex individuals that ever existed at about 2.5 billion, including approximately 20,000 adults alive at any one time 2/5
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The researchers did not discover actual life forms, but noted that on Earth phosphine is produced by bacteria thriving in oxygen-starved environments
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Glaciers in China's bleak, rugged Qilian mountains are disappearing at a shocking rate as global warming brings unpredictable change and raises the prospect of crippling, long-term water shortages, scientists say 1/11
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Scientists at the foot of a volcano in Iceland used its lava as a giant grill to cook sausages as they studied the eruption
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In the center of New York City's spring greenery, artist Maya Lin has installed the barren, brown trunks of 49 dead Atlantic White Cedar trees in a Manhattan park to warn of the danger of climate change 1/4
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Scientists are struggling to monitor an active volcano that erupted off the South Pacific island of Tonga at the weekend, after the explosion destroyed its sea-level crater and drowned its mass, obscuring it from satellites 1/6
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As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritize working age adults over the elderly will be closely watched by other countries as it aims to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy
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As
@NASAPersevere
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‘One of the main questions I get asked is "Is it real?"’ says Ole Bielfeldt, 20, from Cologne, Germany.
Like many people, he turned to video app TikTok to keep himself entertained during the pandemic. With no expectations, he posted a video and woke up to 7 million views 1/6
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A similar alien-looking pillar, was spotted in a Utah desert in the United States about two weeks ago. It disappeared after generating much excitement internationally among science-fiction fans 2/4
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Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing
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Since the 2020 documentary 'My Octopus Teacher' captured the public imagination with its tale of a filmmaker's friendship with an octopus, concern for their wellbeing has grown 5/6
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'Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the ice shelf are all part of the recipe for ice-shelf break-up,' the Canadian Ice Service said when it announced the loss 2/3
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Instead of unpleasant nasal swab tests, Peter van Wees asks participants to step into an airlocked cabin and to scream, or sing. An industrial air purifier collects all the particles emitted, which are then analyzed for the virus 2/4
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It’s now headed straight for South Georgia Island, a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic, where within days it could smash into the remote world teeming with wildlife 3/5
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All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes how much devastation is caused by miniscule viral particles by
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A mixed vaccination of first AstraZeneca and then a Pfizer COVID-19 shot boosted neutralizing antibody levels by six times compared with two AstraZeneca doses, a study from South Korea shows 1/5
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The ruptures on the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea has led to what is likely the biggest single release of climate-damaging methane ever recorded, the United Nations Environment Programme said 1/5
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Seoul has strongly rebuked the decision, with the foreign ministry summoning the Japanese ambassador and President Moon Jae-in ordering officials to explore petitioning an international court 4/4
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The Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the last 30 years, due to a process known as Arctic amplification. But this year, temperatures in the polar region have been intense. The polar sea ice hit its lowest extent for July in 40 years 3/3
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In Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' movie, an alien monolith is a recurring symbol that appears to play a role in the development of human evolution. Rather than being an alien structure, the truth of the Romanian monolith may be more prosaic 3/4
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A non-peer-reviewed study of more than 84,000 people, led by Adam Hampshire, a doctor at Imperial College London, found that in some severe cases, coronavirus infection is linked to substantial cognitive deficits for months 2/5
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Fossils of a Centrosaurus dinosaur unearthed in 1989 with a malformed leg bone was thought to be a healed fracture. But a new examination has revealed that the malformation was a manifestation of osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer. Read more
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Britain and the United States are among a few countries withholding support for a proposal brought at the United Nations that would recognize access to a safe and healthy environment as a human right 1/5
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'When I enter a dense forest, I feel like I'm holding my life in my hands,' says Parul Haldar
Her husband disappeared on a fishing trip deep inside the forest. He was one of a rising number of humans killed by tigers as they venture into the wild 1/5
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American meteorologist, Chris Vagasky, studied lightning around the volcano and found it increasing to about 30,000 strikes in the days leading up to the eruption. On the day of the eruption, he detected 400,000 lightning events in just three hours 6/6
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Wooded areas up and down the U.S. East Coast are breaking into a deafening buzz. After 17 years spent alone underground, billions of red-eyed cicadas are emerging for their final act: to meet a partner, breed and die 1/6
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Costa Rica eyes permanent ban on fossil fuel exploration and extraction
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President Joe Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years and invoked the Defense Production Act to spur solar panel manufacturing at home, the White House said on Monday, confirming a Reuters report.
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Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed NASA's astronaut training program in the 1960s, will join Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on the first crewed flight into space from his rocket company Blue Origin later this month 1/4
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A top medical organization has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games 1/5
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Inspired by an aeroplane’s flight recorder, the 'Earth's Black Box' will be built in 2022 on the remote west coast of Tasmania, an area deemed geographically and politically stable, its creators said 2/5
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They considered factors including the size of its geographic range, its body mass, growth pattern, age at sexual maturity, life expectancy, duration of a single generation and the total time that Tyrannosaurus rex existed before extinction 66 million years ago 3/5
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Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready, the United Nations climate panel warned in a major report.
Noting that nearly half the world's population was already vulnerable to increasingly dangerous climate impacts 1/5
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Saturday's eruption was so powerful that space satellites captured not only huge clouds of ash but also an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound 4/6
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Researchers who conducted the analysis said it was not clear how the virus was linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression, but that these were the most common diagnoses among 14 disorders they looked at
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The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday recognized access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate change and its devastating consequences 1/5
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Bielfeldt, who now has 5.6 million followers on TikTok, thinks people's fascination with his videos are fueled by their desire to know more about how things work. He chooses everyday objects: ‘People want to understand what a T-shirt or a coffee is made out of’ 4/6
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Residents in northern California’s Bay Area woke up to a doomsday-like skyline, as smoke from the state’s wildfires traveled into the upper atmosphere and blocked the sunlight, casting an orange glow across the region 2/3
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Scientists expect the iceberg to grind over the seabed, crushing the island’s underwater life. If the berg lodges at the island’s flank, it could remain a fixture for up to 10 years before the ice melts or breaks away, Tarling said 4/5
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The device, which will be connected to the internet, will use an algorithm to regularly scrape data relating to climate change using a set of 500 metrics and will store it automatically 4/5
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'I am 62 years old and had never seen the snow, you know? To see nature's beauty is something indescribable,' said truck driver Iodor Goncalves Marques in Cambara do Sul, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, speaking to TV Globo network 2/5
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A Swedish court gave Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other climate activists the go-ahead on Tuesday to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish state for "insufficient climate policy".
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It could block some of the island’s 2 million penguins from reaching the waters to feed their young. The melting freshwater could also make the waters inhospitable for phytoplankton and other sea creatures that are crucial parts of the food chain 5/5
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A spokeswoman for Piatra Neamt police, Georgiana Mosu, said officers are conducting an inquiry into the illegally-installed structure, which was positioned in a protected archeological area from Nov. 27 4/4
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Pope Francis said on Sunday that recent heat waves across many parts of the world and flooding in countries such as South Korea showed that more urgent action was needed to tackle climate change.
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Chile's Environment Minister Maisa Rojas, a leading climate scientist with a PhD from Oxford who made the leap into politics this year, is on a mission to strengthen the Andean country's environmental rules and hold mining firms to account.
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As many as 33 rivers in China have risen to their highest levels in history during the current wave of floods, a senior water ministry official said
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It comes after U.N. climate talks in Glasgow ended last month with a deal that kept alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5° Celsius.
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The cognitive deficits were 'of substantial effect size,' particularly among people who had been hospitalized with COVID-19, researchers said, with the worst cases showing impacts 'equivalent to the average 10-year decline in global performance between the ages of 20 to 70' 4/5
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French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.
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Cognitive tests measure how well the brain performs tasks - such as remembering words or joining dots on a puzzle. Such tests are widely used to assess brain performance in diseases like Alzheimer’s, and can also help doctors assess temporary brain impairments 3/5
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shows how organic carbon is released into the atmosphere during the fires. The smoke contains a substantial portion of fine particulate matter known by the particles’ size as PM2.5, which can have a major impact on people’s health 2/7
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A young protester holding a sign reading 'Strike for Climate' on a Moscow square didn’t have long to wait for police to arrive. His one-man protest lasted just 30 minutes before he was detained this summer for a second Friday in a row 1/5
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The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said 1/3
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The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300 kilometers, roughly 1,430 miles, away in New Zealand 2/6
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Hadj Benhalima sized up the building in front of him then took a run at the wall, pushed off its surface with one foot, twisted around in mid-air and reached out to flick a switch a few meters off the ground 1/6
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Signs of life on Venus: Scientists say they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond our blue planet
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'The concern at the moment is how little information we have and that's scary,' said Janine Krippner, a New Zealand-based volcanologist with the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.
'When the vent is below water, nothing can tell us what will happen next' 3/6
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And then, like a speed skater, it was on its way. The current propelled the berg on a fast track through what scientists call 'iceberg alley,' a northeast route traveled by chunks of ice that break from the peninsula 2/5
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It will be filled with storage drives containing climate-change related data such as average temperatures and global energy consumption 5/5
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Fossils of more than 40 T. rex individuals have been found since it was first described in 1905, providing a wealth of information about a beast that thrives in the popular imagination.
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They also heeded a doctrine called Damuth's law linking population to body mass: the bigger the animal, the fewer the individuals 4/5
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says the minerals and rock deposits at Salda are the nearest match on earth to those around the Jezero Crater where the spacecraft landed and which is believed to have once been flooded with water
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The Biden administration on Tuesday said it would substantially reduce the cost of building wind and solar energy projects on federal lands to help spur renewable energy development and address climate change.
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Experts said the volcano, which last erupted in 2014, had been puffing away for about a month before rising magma, superheated to around 1,000 degrees Celsius, met with 20-degree seawater on Saturday, causing an instantaneous and massive explosion 5/6
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‘I started the TikTok channel about a year ago, so it’s not that old. I’ve always been interested in photography and especially the different perspectives you could create.’ He decided to post one of his videos on the app - and reached 400,000 views in just a couple of hours 3/6
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Post-COVID cases of stroke, dementia and other neurological disorders were rarer, the researchers said, but were still significant, especially in those who had severe COVID-19
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Deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go on the offensive against the blazes
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month's United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being "held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights."
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Tuvalu's foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow (
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Haldar fishes in the river most days. Twice a month, she travels deeper into the forests to catch crabs, rowing six hours on a rickety boat along with her mother and staying in the undergrowth for several days 2/5
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Milan and Costa Rica were among the winners of the Earthshot Prize on Sunday, an environmental award created by Britain's Prince William, who has criticized world leaders for an uninspiring response to the climate change crisis.
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A plume of highly concentrated methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent but shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, was detected in an analysis of satellite imagery by researchers associated with UNEP's International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), the organization said 2/5
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A volcanic eruption in eastern Congo left a smoking trail of destruction half a mile wide that buried hundreds of houses and left residents searching for missing loved ones, before halting just short of the city of Goma 1/5
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Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher via
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