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The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Qi Ye
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Climate change’s impact on groundwater could leave ‘environmental timebomb’
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Guest post: Climate change brings threat of ‘bluetongue’ virus to UK farms
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State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2018
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Guest post: Observations and models agree that the oceans are warming faster
Dr Lijing Cheng is an associate professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in China; Prof John Abraham is a professor in the School...
Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2018
In a year dominated by events such as Brexit, royal weddings, the Salisbury poisonings, US Supreme Court nominations and the World Cup, there was...
Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s weather in 2018
Dr Mark McCarthy is science manager of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, which provides monitoring and analysis of UK climate variability and...
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