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Hurricanes are becoming so strong we may need a new scale to rate them

Five storms in the past decade had wind speeds that belong in a hypothetical category 6 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale

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Activists at the COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai in December 2023

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Global temperatures may have passed 1.5°C of warming a decade ago

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A floating solar power plant on the Cirata Reservoir, West Java in Indonesia

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Floating solar power booms in South-East Asia as land becomes scarce

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Light-sensitive molecules could make carbon capture more efficient

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Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry periods

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Four new emperor penguin colonies have been discovered

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Huge amounts of rock dust are being spread across farms to capture CO2

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Seabed trawling found to be a major source of global CO2 emissions

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Alpine ibex are becoming more nocturnal as the climate gets hotter

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Hydropower generation in western US set to fall as climate gets drier

A model of US water systems foresees a big drop in hydropower generation by 2050 as the climate gets drier and river flow decreases, while electricity demand is set to increase

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Record growth of renewable energy in 2023 isn't fast enough, says IEA

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Microturbines can generate electricity from drinking water pipes

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2023 was officially the hottest year on record

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Extreme droughts are worse for plants than we thought

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