A mosquito-borne disease freshly arrived in Britain has spread large distances, with scientists racing to understand the risks to wild birds. Scientists are monitoring its spread amid warnings that mosquitoes and the diseases they carry may expand their range under climate change.
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‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C, shifting the lush rainforest into a dry savannah.
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New California testing facility aims to scale heavy-duty electric truck charging.
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Opening a third runway at Heathrow Airport could result in pollution equivalent to an additional 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year by 2050.
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With a warming climate exposing more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, Republicans attack rules designed to keep workers safe from heat.
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Amazon could survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but at a high cost. Some parts of the rainforest may lose many of its largest trees, releasing a large amount of stored carbon, and reduce the rainforest's immediate capacity to act as an important carbon sink.
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The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years.
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Redlining shaped the power grid. Communities of color are still paying the price. The clean energy transition is moving forward, but the legacy of segregation leaves many urban neighborhoods locked out.
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Austria walks back support for EU’s 2040 climate target. Austria’s backtracking adds to the political pressure on the Commission to soften the 2040 target.
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Congress begins repeal of clean energy tax credits with ‘sledgehammer approach’. It’s only the first step toward erasing Biden’s key climate policy, but the politics are difficult amid the push for Trump’s tax cuts. The potential climate consequences are profound.
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‘We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation. Known to local Argentinians as the “Impenetrable Chaco”, it is one of South America’s largest ecosystems and one of the region’s last climate-critical forests.
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How ecologists are helping birds adapt to climate crisis. Moving migratory pied flycatchers further north to breed where food remained resulted in twice as many chicks.
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Vermont's Republican governor Phil Scott reverses course on EV sales targets with executive order 04-25.
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With coral reefs in crisis due to climate change, scientists have engineered a bio-ink that could help promote coral larvae settlement and restore these underwater ecosystems before it's too late.
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For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. Emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in the latest 12 months.
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People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds. “These drugs are very effective at helping you lose weight, but when you stop them, weight regain is much faster than [after stopping] diets”
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More than 70% of adaptation plans for European cities are ‘inconsistent’. Nearly half of the 327 cities assessed have not published an adaptation plan, leaving us unsure as to whether or how they are trying to reduce climate threats.
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Methane: Where it comes from and why we're running out of time. Methane concentrations have risen faster over the past five-year period than in any period since record-keeping began.
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Zebrafish bred for heat tolerance show no apparent tradeoffs in fitness or metabolism. Global warming is already very tough for animals in the wild, but it may be toughest for creatures like fish, whose body temperatures are controlled by the water temperatures around them.
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Green raw deal: House Republicans targeting clean energy tax credits in budget proposal. “The legislation would reverse the most reckless parts of the engorged climate spending in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”
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Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters, with the United States alone making up about one in four of those displaced. With weather hazards continuously worsening owing to climate change, there is little to suggest that the trend will not continue.
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Trump’s energy secretary denies freezing federal funding, asking ‘What does frozen mean’? With energy projects nationwide still in limbo, companies impacted by Trump-era “review” left searching for answers on unfinished projects.
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European companies are increasingly lobbying for strong climate action, research has found, in a “profound shift” that analysts say challenges the narrative that businesses see green rules as a threat to profits.
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Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests. Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, with the gap shrinking to 18% after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as income and education.
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Dairy companies ‘turning blind eye’ to global methane emissions, report suggests. Animal agriculture accounts for 32% of global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
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