"How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?"
"Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse."
"Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse."
"More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found."
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"An Australian start-up is hoping fungi can pull carbon dioxide from the air and stash it underground. It’s one of several ventures trying to deploy the superpowers of soil to slow global warming."
"The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans rising as it continues to leap the species barrier, reaching new host species."