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Dozens of ‘frost quakes’ hit a Finnish town in just 7 hours

Fears are growing that seismic activity known as frost quakes or ice quakes – which can cause huge cracks in roads and houses – are becoming more frequent because of climate change

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Bigger butterflies may cope better with climate change

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Cows produce a large portion of global methane emissions

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Kangaroo faeces could reduce methane emissions from cows

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What is longtermism and why do its critics think it is dangerous?

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Antarctic ice melt may be reversible due to rising land beneath

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Lab-grown meat could be 25 times worse for the climate than beef

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Extreme rainfall could lead to 'big disaster' for rice yield in China

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Kettleman City, CA - Jan 29, 2022: Many cars charging at a Tesla Supercharger station. Supercharger stations allow Tesla cars to be fast-charged at the network within a hour.

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California's electric car boom reduces pollution – but not everywhere

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2H56E72 Activists from Friends of the Earth during a demonstration calling for an end to all new oil and gas projects in the North Sea, starting with the proposed Cambo oil field, outside the UK Government's Cop26 hub during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Sunday November 7, 2021.

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How a campaign to keep fossil fuels underground is gaining traction

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Spanish heatwave: Is climate change behind record heat in Europe?

A spring heatwave across parts of southern Europe is seeing temperature records for April broken in many countries. Why is this happening, and will the summer also be hot?

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Can we use salt to lock away carbon for thousands of years?

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Wildfires have drastically reduced lynx habitat in Washington state

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Once-a-century extreme precipitation could occur every 30 years in US

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2022 was Europe’s hottest summer but warmer years are likely to come

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