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How to spend a dwindling greenhouse gas budget

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Ethnocentrism as a defence

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African tropical forest carbon

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A sensible climate solution for the boreal forest

1. Gauthier, S., Bernier, P., Kuuluvainen, T., Shvidenko, A. Z. & Schepaschenko, D. G. Science 349, 819–822 (2015). 2. Bernier, P. et al. Forests 7, 157 (2016). 3. Bright,...

The price of fast fashion

The fashion industry has changed rapidly in recent years with the increased prevalence of fast fashion, impacting the environment. Efforts to green this polluting...

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Elevated increases in human-perceived temperature under climate warming

1. Steadman, R. G. Norms of apparent temperature in Australia. Aust. Met. Mag. 43, 1–16 (1994). 2. Gaffen, D. J. & Ross, R. J. Climatology and trends...

Keeping global warming within 1.5 °C constrains emergence of aridification

1. Collins, M. et al. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (eds Stocker, T. F. et al.) (IPCC, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2013). 2. Huang, J.,...

Inverse relationship between present-day tropical precipitation and its sensitivity to greenhouse warming

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