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A 15-minute walk on the wild side
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Oil giants struggle to wash blood off their hands
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Violent words beget violent actions
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To save our world, we must fall in love with nature
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Bringing airborne plastic pollution down to earth
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Best of times, worst of times
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Oh! What a Lovely War for fossil fuel profiteers
While 2022 may have been the year when full-scale war returned to Europe for the first time since 1945, with massive spikes in energy...
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Jailhouse shock: Taiwan prison aims to jump-start island's solar power dream.
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Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past seven days.
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VIDEO: 'Difficult slog' ahead to undo Obama climate legacy, says former EPA chief.
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Methane emissions from trees
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Action required: Invasive fungus is killing European salamanders
A new fungal disease brought in from Asia is threatening European salamanders. Once the amphibians become infected, they die within a brief period of...