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The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives—a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland—offers new insights into the chronology of abrupt climate changes
Shipping-reliant nations like Panama and Liberia have joined the EU, Japan and small islands in backing an emissions levy
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Ecological warning lights have blinked on across the Arctic over the last 40 years, according to new research, and many of the fastest-changing areas are clustered in Siberia, the Canadian Northwest
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Just over 5 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) became aware of the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China. A massive
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