Climate change and extreme heat will drive inflation higher, study says

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Industrial factory chimney emitting smoke and gas pollution into the atmosphere.

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault accepted a record-breaking number of seed deposits amid climate crisis

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault saw its largest number of new contributors in one day and now holds over 1.2 million seed varieties from 77 countries.

Scientists want to build 62-mile-long curtains around the 'doomsday glacier' for a $50 billion Hail Mary to save it

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Thwaites Glacier
The Thwaites glacier is the widest on Earth, but it's losing massive amounts of ice each year.

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Massive Texas fire burns out of control, razing half a million acres of land

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A massive fire in Texas has burned more than half a million acres of land. The Smokehouse House Creek Fire is the second-largest fire in the state's history, prompting evacuation orders in counties there and in Oklahoma.

A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report

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Methane well pumpjacks.
Methane well pumpjacks. A methane well leak occurred over 6 months in Kazakhstan in 2023.

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World's largest iceberg is on a collision course with major shipping lane

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A British research ship has filmed A23a, the world's largest iceberg, which has broken away from the Antarctic ice shelf and is now moving at speed, potentially toward busy shipping lanes close to South Africa.

Sea-ice levels in Antarctica at a 'mind-blowing' historic low

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A view of ice floes on Grandidier Channel as the floes melt due to global climate change in Antarctica on February 09, 2022
Ice floes melt due to climate change in Antarctica on February 2022.

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My miserable, euphoric, muddy escape from Burning Man

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A fiery orange and red scene is covered with bright tendrils of light swishing in and out the frame, with some exploding into spiky bulbs of light. Beneath the fiery cosmic scene, white silhouettes of dancing bodies swivel around, prancing in mud.
Despite the food rationing, the mandatory pee bottles, and the malfunctioning infrastructure, Burners scraped the dirt off their shoes and got down.

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The year of 'global boiling' is creating an opportunity for winemakers in Sweden, and one winemaker says he can see things growing here that were unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago

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Murre Sofrakis, the winemaker at Fladie vineyard, looks at the grapevine near the city of Lund in Skane County, southern Sweden, on August 28, 2019
The year of global boiling is creating an opportunity for winemakers in Sweden, and one winemaker says he can "see things growing here that were unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago."

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