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« Les migrations liées aux aléas climatiques sont de courte distance et de courte...
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Desertification and monsoon climate change linked to shifts in ice volume and sea level
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China premier promises to 'make skies blue again'
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—China's skies will one day be "blue again," vowed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday. In his address to the National People's Congress,...
Forest Policy: Media influence on debate
Climatic Change http://doi.org/bzpd (2017)
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is an important instrument for mitigating climate change, particularly in forest-rich countries like...
A lesson on warming, from an icy river.
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