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The Paris Agreement included groundbreaking text on the need for a mechanism to help identify risks beyond adaptation and support the victims of climate-related...

Drought-tolerant species thrive despite returning rains in the Sahel

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‘Robomussels’ used to monitor climate change

Tiny robots have been helping researchers study how cli­mate change affects bio­di­ver­sity. These “robo­mus­sels” have the shape, size, and color of actual mus­sels, with...

Temporary extinction reprieve for some frogs

Australian scientists have good news for frog conservation: there may be longer than expected time to intervene before climate change causes extinction of some...

Emission reductions hampered by EU internal policy processes, new research finds

Current policy processes at the European Commission are having a detrimental effect on achieving reductions in harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector,...

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