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A warming world means milder winters and softer springs. It will also mean fewer blizzards, with milder impacts.
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By 2100, US farmers can expect more lethal heat, the equivalent of two months when it’s unsafe to pick crops.
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More people than ever now live in cities. Their growing urban space demands devour farmland, bad news for tomorrow’s hungry world.
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Tropical forest damage is bad enough. New thinking suggests it could prove far more ruinous in terms of the climate crisis.
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Multiple climate health risks threaten today’s babies. They may grow up hungrier, more diseased and facing more pollution and danger. But there’s hope.
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Global heating could bring “untold suffering” for humans. It could also mean less fresh water and less rice, though tasting more of arsenic.
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Trees cool the world. They also cool themselves. Even moderate forest damage makes local temperatures soar.
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Researchers have found three new ways to double the solar dividend, making the sun work harder and deliver more to the renewable economy.
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Its coasts are at ever-greater risk from rising seas, and US Atlantic floods will soon force people to move. Why not start planning now?
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A stable carbon cycle means life goes on. Too much carbon could wipe out many species. And acid oceans could hold the key.
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