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'Tropics expand' as world warms
The tropical belt has become wider in recent decades, with climate change the probable cause, research suggests.
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For the environment's sake, don't get divorced
A rising tide of divorce is taking a huge toll on the planet, warns a groundbreaking analysis
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Clouds gather in Bali
They've travelled to the Indonesian resort of Bali to try and agree a new deal to fight climate change.
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Time to stop the blame game
All nations must start working together to tackle climate change, argues Malini Mehra.
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Computer servers 'as bad' for climate as SUVs
Our growing data storage demands are as great a threat to the climate as fuel-guzzling cars or the global aviation industry, warns a new report
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Rudd takes Australia inside Kyoto
Kevin Rudd is sworn in as Australia's new PM, and immediately signs documents to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
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Key climate summit opens in Bali
A key UN summit to thrash out a deal on the future shape of a global climate agreement opens in Indonesia.
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The Keeling Curve legacy
How one of science's most famous graphs - showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 - became an icon.
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Plants do emit methane after all
New experiments confirm that woody shrubs can be a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas
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Bog barons: Indonesia's carbon catastrophe
The despoilers of Sumatra's swamp forests now want to be paid to staunch the flow of carbon dioxide from the exposed peat.
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Volcanoes give sea level a temporary boost
Against expectations, massive eruptions cause global sea level to shoot up for a year, before plummeting again
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Editorial: Can we tackle climate change and still be fair?
To stabilise the climate we need targets that account for all emissions, whether from a US power station or an Indonesian peat bog
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Australia dries out
Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns that some have attributed to global warming.
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Insight: Overfishing is creating a jellyfish plague
Giant swarms of jellyfish proliferating in the warming oceans are a dire warning of our need to protect fish stocks in the face of climate change
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Forests could prove EU's carbon-cutting saviour
Encouraging forests might be the only way Europe can meet its own target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, say researchers
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Coal fires threaten the globe
China is blessed - or cursed - with abundant coal reserves and private mine owners either do not know or do not care about fires.
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FactCheck: was Heather Mills right?
Do livestock produce more CO2 than the transport sector, as Heather Mills says? FactCheck said no but Tony Wardle of vegetarian pressure group Viva is sticking to his guns.
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Venus offers Earth climate clues
Observations of Venus might assist efforts to tackle the threat of climate change here on Earth.
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Drought-hit Australia votes to go green
After winning recent elections, incoming prime minister Kevin Rudd says the country will move to ratify the Kyoto protocol "within weeks"
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End of the road for the British toad?
The humble British toad could be wiped out within 10 years because of the spread of a disease.
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