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Fiji calls for urgency in talks to implement climate accord.

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How climate change drives child marriage.

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How the Trump White House wound up releasing dire climate report.

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Fiji brings first-hand experience with effects of climate change to UN summit.

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Massive government report says climate is warming and humans are the cause.

Enlarge this image Hurricane Harvey delivered record rainfall to East Texas. Many scientists believe that climate change helped to make the storm wetter. Spencer Platt/Getty...

From Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities underwater.

Climate change An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows <!--><!--><!--><!--> How Shanghai...

Rapid CO2 cuts could allow some cool-water corals to adapt to global warming

Some of the world’s most diverse coral reefs are found in cooler parts of the tropics. These corals may be able to adapt to...

Protecting Norfolk from flooding won’t be cheap: Army Corps releases its plan.

The federal government has proposed a $1.8 billion plan to help protect Norfolk, Virginia, from rising seas and increasingly powerful coastal storms by ringing...

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