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Guest post: What do we know about climate change mitigation in cities?
Dr William F Lamb is a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin.
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Interactive: Can the Great Barrier Reef survive climate change?
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Factcheck: Is 3-5C of Arctic warming now ‘locked in’?
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The Carbon Brief Profile: India
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Article invité: Un plan pour résoudre les mystères des vastes tourbières du Congo
Simon Lewis est professeur en sciences de changement global à l’Université de Leeds et à l’Université College de Londres, ainsi que collaborateur à la...
Halving global warming with solar geoengineering could ‘offset tropical storm risk’
Engineering the climate to reflect away sunlight could halve global warming and offset the risk of increases in tropical storms, new research suggests.
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Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change
A misleading graph purporting to show that past changes in Greenland’s temperatures dwarf modern climate change has been circling the internet since at least...
Guest post: China’s CO2 emissions grew slower than expected in 2018
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