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Temperatures in Guangzhou fail to drop below level that meteorological service uses to mark change in seasonOne of China’s biggest cities is still officially in summer, despite it being mid-November, as temperatures have failed to drop below the threshold considered neces...
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Students ‘let down’ by cheat sheet fiasco, says minister. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, ...
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The H-2A program might grow under Trump and mass deportationsAgriculture rules in Quincy, Washington. Sprawling apple, cherry and peach orchards surround this rural city of about 8,000. Packing sheds dot the middle of downtown. Railroad tracks run close to the Columbia Ri...
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Gigantic multicoloured organism is visible from space and has grown for between 300 and 500 yearsThe world’s largest known coral, visible from space, has been discovered in the waters of the Solomon Islands.With a circumference of 183 metres, the gigant...
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Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continueWorld leaders have promised to try to stop the planet heating by more than 1.5C (2.7F). But current policies put the temperature rise on track for 2.7C, a report ha...
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The climate crisis created the setting for Trump’s economy-first win and it’s the global south that will suffer mostDonald Trump’s election is a triumph for the politics of the doomsday bunker, which is bad news for the world’s environment.This is the i...
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Dutch appeal court ruled in favour of oil and gas company over judgment telling it to limit emissionsA court ruling in favour of Shell does not spell the end of climate litigation against companies, legal experts have said.The oil and gas company celebr...
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Months after devastating rains displaced 420,000 people in Rio Grande do Sul, an unusual consensus has formed around the need for a faster transition to renewablesBeside a narrow canal that runs through the outskirts of Porto Alegre in southern ...
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When infestations affect Notting Hill billionaires, it reminds you that it’s the little winged bastards who truly own this cityWhile reading of the case of the super-rich couple suing the previous owners of their west London mansion ...
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The legendary documentarian has taken on his first non-American subject for an expansive two-part docuseriesOne of the more reassuring aspects of the Donald Trump era has been the emergence of authors and historians as accidental therapists. When some new calamity erupts,...