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Guest post: Why the 1.5C warming limit is not yet a geophysical impossibility
Dr Richard Millar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative at the University of Oxford.
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Limiting global warming to 1.5C could save two-thirds of Asia’s glacier ice
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Media reaction: Hurricane Irma and climate change
Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey brought “unprecedented” flooding to Houston, Hurricane Irma has ploughed through the Caribbean and into the southeast US.
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Coffee faces dual threat of farmland loss and bee decline in a warmer climate
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Analysis: UK auction reveals offshore wind cheaper than new gas
The UK government today awarded contracts worth £176m to 11 low-carbon electricity schemes, with offshore wind the big winner. These projects will generate nearly...
Guest Post: Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts
Sophie Marjanac and Lindene Patton are lawyers at ClientEarth in the UK and Earth & Water Law in the US, respectively.
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As many as one in three parasites could become extinct as a result of climate change by 2070, new research suggests.
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UK homeowners could cut their yearly bills by hundreds of pounds by making their properties more energy efficient, a new report says.
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