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Climate chief: How coronavirus shows us we can beat global warming

Climate chief: How coronavirus shows us we can beat global warming

27 May 2020

Forget the naysayers: what we must do to combat climate change is far less drastic than coronavirus measures, says World Meteorological Organization head Petteri Taalas
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England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

19 December 2017

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

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