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Analysis: ‘Global’ warming varies greatly depending where you live
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‘Worrying trend’ in UK emission cuts beyond power and waste, says CCC
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Guest post: Unprecedented summer heat in Europe ‘every other year’ under 1.5C of warming
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‘Atlantification’ of Arctic sea tipping it towards new climate regime
Rising temperatures and declining sea ice are driving a “rapid climate shift” in the Arctic’s Barents Sea, a new study says.
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Japan
In the third article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Japan’s gradually falling...
Land uplift ‘could prevent’ collapse of West Antarctic ice sheet
The rapid rise of bedrock beneath one of the fastest melting regions of the West Antarctic ice sheet could help prevent it collapsing, new...
Climate change to become ‘greatest pressure on biodiversity’ by 2070
The combined effects of global warming and land-use change could cause the world’s ecosystems to lose more than a third of their animal species...
Explainer: How scientists estimate ‘climate sensitivity’
The sensitivity of the Earth’s climate to increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration is a question that sits at the heart of climate science.
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