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Scientists identify the most extreme heatwaves ever recorded globally

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A new study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world—and remarkably some of these went almost unnoticed decades ago. The research, led...

The threshold between natural Atlantic current system fluctuations and a climate change-driven evolution

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Is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowing down? Is this system of ocean currents, which is so important for our climate, likely to...

Model pinpoints glaciers at risk of collapse due to climate change

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As climate change warms the planet, glaciers are melting faster, and scientists fear that many will collapse by the end of the century, drastically...

Climate change will more than double the risk of intense tropical cyclones by 2050

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Human-caused climate change will make strong tropical cyclones twice as frequent by the middle of the century, putting large parts of the world at...

Europe saw warmest summer on record in 2021

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Scientists say last summer was the hottest summer on record in Europe, with temperatures a full 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than...

Changes in vegetation shaped global temperatures over last 10,000 years

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Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington...

Groundwater level threatens to fall in Germany due to climate change

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Climate change directly affects groundwater resources. Groundwater levels in Germany threaten to fall in the next decades. This is the result of a study...

Keeping climate pledges limits warming to 2 degrees

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If nations do all that they've promised to fight climate change, the world can still meet one of two internationally agreed upon goals for...

Inhospitable climate fosters gold ore formation

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The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa holds the world’s largest gold deposits across a 200-km long swathe. Individual ore deposits are spread out in...

The world is ‘perilously close’ to irreversible climate change. 5 tipping points keep scientists up at night

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Five years ago, the United Nations' panel on climate change was charged with drafting a series of reports detailing its science, the effects on...

Simulating Earth’s changing climate: Why some models exaggerate future warming

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The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released overnight, shows a viable path to cutting global emissions by half by...

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

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It's not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest...
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