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How we predicted global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years ago

11 December 2019

New Scientist was well ahead of the curve in 1979 when we warned that the 'so-called carbon dioxide greenhouse effect' threatened long-term climate change
HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

3 May 2019

An intense new HBO miniseries about the world's worst nuclear accident turns the Chernobyl Soviet scientists into unlikely heroes in its portrayal of a world superpower approaching meltdown

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