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Unprecedented continental drying driven by severe droughts and groundwater overuse are reducing freshwater and contributing to sea level rise.
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The story starts with a single thread of polyester, dislodged from the weave of a cheap, pink acrylic jumper as it spins around a washing machine. This load of washing will shed hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic fragments and threads – up to 700,000 in this one washing machine cycle.
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Britain is at risk of a worsening “climateflation” crisis amid the fallout from increasingly extreme weather that could drive up food prices by more than a third by 2050.
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The Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi (EAD) has announced a major success in the Government of Abu Dhabi’s efforts to rehabilitate blue carbon ecosystems such as mangrove forests and seagrass meadows and to launch a global initiative to restore coral reefs by planting four million coral colonies by 2030.
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UAE, Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank, Syria and Oman record 30% less cumulative rainfall than their respective historical average.
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Heat waves aren't just getting worse on land, the majority of the world's oceans are experiencing record-breaking temperatures too. These marine heat waves are getting longer, more intense and reaching farther than ever before. In particular, 2023's marine heat waves (MHWs) exhibited the longest duration, widest extents, and highest intensities on record—and 2024 wasn't any better.
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A new attraction opened at Kew Gardens on Friday, featuring 6,500 new plants and 35 trees.
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Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their survival.
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Millions of tonnes of rubble left by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza could generate more than 90,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – and take as long as four decades to remove and process, a study has found.
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Today the European Union and China released a joint climate statement during a high-level summit in Beijing marking 50 years of diplomatic relations. The announcement included a commitment from both sides to strengthen emissions reduction efforts and submit updated national climate plans ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. ...more |
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