Climate change
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Weatherwatch: Meteorologists are counting ‘thunder days’ – and checking they’re not hearing jet planes or fireworks
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Leave victory risks delaying EU ratification of the Paris deal, leaving the door open for Obama’s successor to unpick the pact
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The uneasy truce between the PM and his party’s right on climate change and marriage equality is under threat, while the Brexit vote challenges his stability v chaos message
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Dana Nuccitelli: Cook et al. (2013) has remained the most-read paper in Environmental Research Letters for most of the past 3 years
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Our new alliance unites 600m city dwellers in fight against climate change
Michael Bloomberg and Maroš ŠefčovičCities are huge carbon emitters but are ideally placed to tackle climate change. Michael Bloomberg on how the Global Covenant can give them the tools to do so -
Leadership forum hears of ‘huge gap’ between experts’ advice on phasing carbon out of the economy and public willingness to go along with that advice
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Galaxy polling finds only 17% of voters think the Coalition has a credible climate plan and only 20% think Labor does
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Weatherwatch: Thousands of people labouring in hot temperatures have been succumbing to a deadly kidney disease, and as the planet warms, the problem is likely to spread
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New dietary guidelines could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1bn tonnes by 2030, and could lessen country’s problems with obesity and diabetes
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Survey shows a majority of Chinese tourists and about a third of US and UK visitors will travel to somewhere other than Australia
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Braunschweig prosecutor’s office looking into Martin Winterkorn and another senior figure over suspected market manipulation
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World heritage site of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, is suffering a dramatic fall in species due to warming seas
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Dry weather in California and growing fire risks are prompting a new effort to cull dead trees affected by bark beetles and use them to make electricity
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Government is accused of pouring money away with payments to companies including Shell and Drax
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Lobby group says ‘guerilla street nannas’ are out in the PM’s electorate hanging climate change posters below Turnbull’s own
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President extols national parks on visit to Yosemite and says climate change ‘no longer a threat, it’s a reality’
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From soaring temperatures in Alaska and India to Arctic sea ice melting and CO2 concentrations rising, this year is smashing records around the world
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Environment 360: The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5C, rather than the previous threshold of 2C. But what would be the difference?
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