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For the most part, tackling climate change does not require new, monumental scientific breakthroughs. We know how to generate energy without emitting greenhouse gases. We know how to build cars that ...

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking ...

BELEM, Brazil, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Every year, the U.N. climate conference conjures hundreds of headlines on global efforts to spare the world from climate catastrophe. This year's begins on Monday in ...

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People wade through a flooded market in South Sudan in 2024. Heavy rains over several years have contributed to a widespread humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. People affected by the negative effects ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

Countries will collectively need to spend trillions of dollars to reach their decarbonization goals and protect the most vulnerable nations from climate disasters, but experts say that current funding ...

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