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![Aerial view of London at night]()
![Aerial view of London at night]()
A year after pledging to go ‘net-zero’, what has the UK achieved?
“Setting a target is one thing, hitting it is quite another."
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![Saharan dust blankets san juan, puerto rico]()
![Saharan dust blankets san juan, puerto rico]()
Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US
Every summer, an atmospheric event propels desert dust thousands of miles across the Atlantic. This year is particularly bad, and timed terribly with Covid-19.
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![A fire burning over a large swath of the Arctic, amid record heat in 2019.]()
![A fire burning over a large swath of the Arctic, amid record heat in 2019.]()
Summer just started, and the Arctic already topped 100 degrees
100.4 degrees in Verkhoyansk, Russia, looks like an Arctic record.
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![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
What greater good? COVID is unmasking America’s collective action problem.
The debate over masks shows the limits of American cooperation.
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![Thawing permafrost soil]()
![Thawing permafrost soil]()
Arctic forecast: Sunny with a higher chance of carbon emissions
A process called photomineralization could release an additional 30 billion metric tons of carbon from melting permafrost.
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![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
Construction begins on the world’s biggest liquid air battery
The battery will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.
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![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
A prescription for a post-COVID economy: A national climate bank
It probably won't happen if President Trump wins in November.
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![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
This Alpine glacier is melting. So a ski resort put a tarp on it.
Alpine resorts get creative to combat rising temperatures.
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![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
Clean clothes or clean oceans? Now you don’t have to choose.
The key to lowering your microfiber footprint: wash your clothes on cold.
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![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air
A new study reveals that the continent's green patches act as a carbon sink.
