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Not Niagara Falls, not Angel Falls, but the worlds largest waterfall is one that humans cannot even see, and will never in ...

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Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen articulated Denmark’s objectives for its upcoming six-month term as the EU Council president ...

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim ...

Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies ...

Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...

Whether in France, Germany, Italy or Sweden, parties of the hard right have surged as they—and often only they, ...

The European Union is set to define what technologies can be used to permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as ...