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Images reveal how climate change is upending life in Morocco's oases

The climate crisis is shriveling lush oases in the desert, threatening precious ecosystems and ways of life

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Morocco - Tafilalt Oasis - On July 2019 a wildfire spread over 3km across the palm grove burning more than 10,000 trees of which 2500 were palm trees. Summer wildfires are due to a combination of extreme temperatures and lying dead trees. which can easily catch fire in the summer months.

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Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that's good for the planet

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What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?

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This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river

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Anger over COP29 finance deal threatens progress on carbon cuts

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Crushed rocks outpace giant fans in race to remove CO2 from air

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Images contain stitched photos to create a panorama. Top: Historical panorama image from the Norwegian Polar Institute from 1967 (reference n. NP051261), shows the glaciers Kongsbreen and Kronobreen merging and surrounding Colleth??gda Island, outside Ny ??lesund, Svalbard. Bottom: Panorama image taken from the same position by photographer Christian Aslund on the 24th August 2024. Greenpeace has commissioned photographer Christian Aslund to continue a project he began in 2002 - to carry out visual research of glaciers in Svalbard and document their retreat over time. While sailing aboard the Greenpeace vessel ???Witness???, Aslund revisited glaciers he first documented in 2002 as well as photographing others, new to this project. The Arctic has been warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, due to

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Striking photos highlight the stark reality of Arctic glacier melt

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2XMXH3D London, UK. 30th July 2024. UK Weather: Heatwave sunset over St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge ends a warm Tuesday. The UK may have its hottest day of the year so far, as temperatures are expected to top 30C (86F) today. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News

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Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change

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2XXTC85 Fish Farm on Sea, Hatchery Fishing, Greece Aquaculture, Marine Fish Farm. Sea fish farm cages and fishing nets, farming fish, with marine landscape an

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Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw

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2AFX2PH aerial view of Allerton Waste Recovery Park, on the A1(M) near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK

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Putting food waste in the bin felt wrong until I learned where it went

When I moved back to York, UK, I was shocked by its garbage system, with limited recycling and no composting. But a bit of digging showed its brilliance, says Graham Lawton

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Sunset / sunrise of Silhouette Shanghai skyline of Historical architecture and modern skyscraper on the bund of Shanghai city with Smog lies in misty fog, China

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Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

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Countries are cheating their way to net zero by overrelying on forests

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Vital Atlantic Ocean current is already weakening due to melting ice

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Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them

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