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Iceberg being towed away from an oil rig

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Towing icebergs to Cape Town is a poor way to halt water crisis

Hauling chunks of polar ice to dry regions to provide fresh water sounds tempting but there are many reasons to reject it, says Olive Heffernan

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Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought

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Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought

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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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Baffin Bay

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Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Why the US is wrong to say burning wood is carbon neutral

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Why the US is wrong to say burning wood is carbon neutral

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Greenland

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Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away – contributing to sea level rise

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Carbon-free shipping is possible, so why aren't we doing it?

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The Antarctic is melting even in the middle of subzero winter

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2017 was the year of the biggest fire storms ever seen

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Antarctica still losing ice despite big rise in snowfall

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