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After deadly floods, can Germany adapt to its climate future?

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After deadly floods, can Germany adapt to its climate future?

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to release a major report on adapting to climate change, Adam Vaughan visits the site of 2021's deadly floods in Ahr, Germany, to discover how locals are rebuilding

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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

Features

CT2DTA Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, Caribbean Sea, Dominica

Life

Scientists want to restore the oceans with artificial whale poo

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Coal mine

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Can a tech billionaire squash Australia’s coal industry by buying it?

Analysis

A CO2 dense phase pump facility at the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 28, 2021. The Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant is designed to process 4.0 billion standard cubic feet per day of sweet gas as pilot project for Carbon Capture Technology (CCUS) to prove the possibility of capturing C02 and lowering emissions from such facilities. Photographer: Maya Siddiqui/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Most schemes to capture and reuse carbon actually increase emissions

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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Semi Submersible Oil Rig during Sunrise at Cromarty Firth in Invergordon, Scotland; Shutterstock ID 554842060; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Oil giants accused of greenwashing for failure over energy transition

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KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY, RUSSIA - APRIL 17, 2021: An aerial view of the village of Nosok, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. It is also the location of the Zarya Taimyra [Taymyr Dawn] state reindeer farming enterprise. Alexander Ryumin/TASS (Photo by Alexander Ryumin\TASS via Getty Images)

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A collaborative approach is needed to avoid the next pandemic

Leader

2HJF0FC DRAX POWER STATION, DRAX, UK - JANUARY 19, 2022. An aerial view of a rail freight train delivering renewable biomass fuel to Drax Power Station

Technology

The race is on to tackle climate change by pulling carbon from the air

Insight

Folmannia orthoclada on rock in Atacama Desert, northern Chile (March 2020). This lichen contains a Trebouxia photobiont.

Life

Lichens may take a million years to adapt to 1°C of climate warming

Lichens are important for stabilising soils and providing some animals with food, but the algae within them are adapting to climate change at a rate of just 1°C every million years

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Flower growth in Antarctica is accelerating due to warming climate

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Cold blob in Atlantic may be slowing ice loss from Iceland’s glaciers

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Fix the Planet newsletter: When net zero means not zero

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