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Since being founded in 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published five sets of “assessment reports” on the state of climate...
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Dr Benjamin Cook is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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Bonn climate talks: key outcomes from the May 2018 UN climate conference
Over the past two weeks, more than 3,000 diplomats and observers have been in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how to bring the Paris Agreement...
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Turkey
In the second article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Turkey’s rising emissions...
‘Foehn winds’ causing Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf to melt in winter
Parts of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf are melting in the depths of winter, when temperatures typically stay well below freezing, research finds.
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The UK and US have jointly launched a five-year research programme this week to study one of the world’s largest – and, potentially, most...
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The first three months of 2018 have been between the fourth and sixth warmest first quarter on record since 1880. This is despite a...
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Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for a student, or recent graduate, to work at our central London office for two weeks this...
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