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Deep ocean temperatures challenge past views of the Antarctic ice sheetClimate

Deep ocean temperatures challenge past views of the Antarctic ice sheet

New temperature reconstructions suggest the Antarctic ice sheet remained more stable during the Oligocene than long assumed Summary: Understanding past Antarctic ice sheet behaviour relies…
SourceSourceJanuary 8, 2026 Full article
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Clearing small areas of rainforest has outsized climate impact: studyClimate

Clearing small areas of rainforest has outsized climate impact: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing…
SourceSourceJanuary 7, 2026 Full article
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Ancient warming erased part of Greenland Ice Sheet, evidence showsClimate

Ancient warming erased part of Greenland Ice Sheet, evidence shows

Core samples pulled from beneath ice sheet suggests region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our current interglacial period Summary: Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice…
SourceSourceJanuary 6, 2026 Full article
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Clean energy subsidies work best when pollution has a priceClimate

Clean energy subsidies work best when pollution has a price

Study finds that when clean energy incentives are applied consistently, the economy can reach an 80% reduction in energy-related carbon emissions by mid-century Summary: Climate…
SourceSourceDecember 30, 2025 Full article
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Europe wanted its carbon border tax to go global – is it working?Climate

Europe wanted its carbon border tax to go global – is it working?

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The EU's carbon border tax was designed to do more than clean up its own economy: it hoped to…
SourceSourceDecember 29, 2025 Full article
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How diet changes could cut food-related climate emissionsClimate

How diet changes could cut food-related climate emissions

Why reducing food-related emissions will require diet changes across much of the global population Summary: The way food is produced and consumed worldwide plays a…
SourceSourceDecember 27, 2025 Full article
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Satellites miss most aviation contrails, MIT study findsClimate

Satellites miss most aviation contrails, MIT study finds

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report Summary: Aviation contrails play a major role in the…
SourceSourceDecember 22, 2025 Full article
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Old rules limit Sámi reindeer herding in a changing climateClimate

Old rules limit Sámi reindeer herding in a changing climate

A warming climate and pressure on land use complicate life for Norway's Sámi reindeer herders. Regulations designed to help them don't work the way they…
SourceSourceDecember 14, 2025 Full article
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How air travel and renewable power differ in their air quality impactsClimate

How air travel and renewable power differ in their air quality impacts

Cutting air travel and purchasing renewable energy can lead to different effects on overall air quality, even while achieving the same CO₂ reduction, new research…
SourceSourceDecember 9, 2025 Full article
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Climate change drives birds toward Europe’s upper elevationsClimate

Climate change drives birds toward Europe’s upper elevations

Many bird species have moved toward colder areas in the mountains of Europe as the climate has warmed over the past two decades. Sunny southern…
SourceSourceDecember 7, 2025 Full article
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Deep-sea nodules offer a climate-smart source of critical metalsClimate

Deep-sea nodules offer a climate-smart source of critical metals

If manganese nodules can be mined in an environmentally friendly way, the critical metals needed for the energy transition could be produced with low CO₂…
SourceSourceDecember 4, 2025 Full article
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How climate change intensifies the dangers of microplastic pollutionClimate

How climate change intensifies the dangers of microplastic pollution

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such…
SourceSourceNovember 30, 2025 Full article
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Mountains face faster climate change, with risks for billionsClimate

Mountains face faster climate change, with risks for billions

A major global review has revealed how climate change has impacted mountain regions over the last 40 years Summary: Climate change in mountain regions is…
SourceSourceNovember 26, 2025 Full article
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As ice thins, Antarctic mountains reveal a hidden iron supply to the oceanClimate

As ice thins, Antarctic mountains reveal a hidden iron supply to the ocean

Research led by polar scientists from Northumbria University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in East Antarctica which could help mitigate the…
SourceSourceNovember 24, 2025 Full article
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Arctic phytoplankton blooms projected to begin earlier as climate change intensifiesClimate

Arctic phytoplankton blooms projected to begin earlier as climate change intensifies

Researchers find that climate change will push Arctic phytoplankton blooms to start earlier and last longer by 2100 Summary: Arctic ecosystems may face a significant…
SourceSourceNovember 21, 2025 Full article
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Europe’s summer could lengthen by 42 days by 2100Climate

Europe’s summer could lengthen by 42 days by 2100

New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2025 Full article
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World’s fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: studyClimate

World’s fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that…
SourceSourceNovember 13, 2025 Full article
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Research exposes environmental cost of UN climate websitesClimate

Research exposes environmental cost of UN climate websites

Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to seven times more carbon than average internet pages, new research suggests Summary: Websites created for United Nations…
SourceSourceNovember 11, 2025 Full article
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Amazon poised to host toughest climate talks in yearsClimate

Amazon poised to host toughest climate talks in years

Belém, Brazil | AFP | Muser NewsDesk An odor of oil hung over last year's UN climate conference in Baku, capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting…
SourceSourceNovember 10, 2025 Full article
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Warming oceans stir stronger turbulence in polar regionsClimate

Warming oceans stir stronger turbulence in polar regions

A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists, from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan…
SourceSourceNovember 6, 2025 Full article
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Antarctic glacier retreats 8 km in two months, fastest in modern historyClimate

Antarctic glacier retreats 8 km in two months, fastest in modern history

Researchers trace Hektoria Glacier’s rapid collapse to its unstable ice plain, revealing how bedrock shape can trigger sudden Antarctic ice loss Summary: Hektoria Glacier on…
SourceSourceNovember 5, 2025 Full article
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Climate intervention may not save coffee, chocolate and wineClimate

Climate intervention may not save coffee, chocolate and wine

A new study finds that solar geoengineering through Stratospheric Aerosol Injection may cool the planet but fails to ensure stable growing conditions for coffee, cacao…
SourceSourceNovember 4, 2025 Full article
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Multifunctional land use strategies that benefit nature, people and climateClimate

Multifunctional land use strategies that benefit nature, people and climate

Researchers at Universities of Göttingen and Kassel analyse models of multifunctional land use Summary: Land use sits at the center of today’s interconnected crises, from…
SourceSourceNovember 2, 2025 Full article
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Earth’s vital signs hit record extremes as scientists call for rapid actionClimate

Earth’s vital signs hit record extremes as scientists call for rapid action

'State of the climate' 2025: Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future Summary: Earth’s health indicators are worsening at an alarming pace,…
SourceSourceOctober 29, 2025 Full article