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Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight climate change

Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global warming

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2A1B24J Global Climate Strike London

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We can't get to net zero without tackling inequality

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WW4018 Planes at Las Vegas airport

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The world just experienced the hottest February on record

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A bird in branches during a forest fire in Santiago, Chile
Coast Mountains #16, British Columbia, Canada, 2023 "Recent reports on the world's remaining glaciers provide sobering news. Estimates are that most of Western Canada's glaciers will be lost to melting within the next 80 years. By the end of this century, they could all be gone. My daughters, who are in their 20s, will not be looking at the same world when they are my age. These images are a reminder of what's being lost - relics of ancient ice and an essential resource for ecosystems and freshwater in these parts of the world

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Stark mountain landscapes exposed in Canada as glaciers shrink

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Quantum quirk explains why carbon dioxide causes global warming

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TOPSHOT - A man wades through floodwaters brought about by heavy rains at a residential neighbourhood in Propseridad town, Agusan del Sur province on southern Mindanao island on February 1, 2024. Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed six people in the Philippines, with one other person missing, rescuers said February 1. (Photo by Erwin MASCARINAS / AFP) (Photo by ERWIN MASCARINAS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Forget what long-lived sea sponges say, focus on reaching net-zero

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Will global warming continue even after we hit net-zero emissions?

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Saudi Arabian desert extreme heat experiment

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Extreme heat: Inside the expedition to find out how humans can adapt

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A huge chunk of glacier ice collapsing and falling into the sea

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Scientists 'shocked' by extreme events in Antarctica as Earth heats up

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The flowering shrub Tidestromia oblongifolia can still photosynthesize in 50°C conditions

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Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation

Insights into how Death Valley’s Tidestromia oblongifolia tolerates such high temperatures could help researchers to engineer crops that can survive global warming

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Shortage of male turtles could be solved by splash of cold seawater

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Melting Arctic glaciers expose new sources of planet-warming methane

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Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

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The uncomfortable reality of life on Earth after we breach 1.5°C

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Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

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Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

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