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Aree Aupeia, 32, standing on the sea front near a house that gets regularly flooded during high tide events. The village is regularly flooded during high tides despite residents attempts to build sea walls or take care of those that were built by the local government, but frequent big waves continue to damage them, putting resident's houses, and gardens under the constant threat.

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The Pacific Islanders fighting to save their homes from catastrophe

Some of climate change's sharpest realities are being felt on small island nations, where extreme weather is claiming homes and triggering displacement. Those able to stay are spearheading inventive adaptation techniques in a bid to secure their future

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California isn't clearing forests fast enough to tame wildfires

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Tropical storms like Alberto can lead to years of declining incomes

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2C5M1RA Bucharest, Romania - June 30, 2019: 35 degrees celsius (92 fahrenheit) is the temperature displayed by a digital thermometer on a hot summer on a stre

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Cooling fabric blocks heat from pavement and buildings in hot cities

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Life

Locusts spun in a centrifuge develop extra-strong exoskeletons

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The desire for legacy is a mental glitch but we can use it for good

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The desire for legacy is a mental glitch but we can use it for good

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Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

Life

Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

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A view of mountain habitat, with blooming pink rhododendron flowers in the foreground, with grassy slopes and craggy peaks in the distance below a sky with scattered clouds

Life

Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America

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Pastoralists from the local Gabra community walk among carcasses of some of their sheep and goats on the outskirts of a small settlement called 'Kambi ya Nyoka' (snake camp) suspected to have succumbed due to sudden change in climate in Marsabit county January 29, 2022. - A devastating drought in Kenya late-last year, that appeared to give way to flash storms that yielded flooding and chilly weather conditions in early 2022, has seen pastoral communities in the east african nation's arid north lose their livestock, first to drought and then floods and cold. (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Climate change causing widespread and irreversible impacts, says IPCC

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UK warned its failure to adapt to warming threatens net zero target

The UK government has been warned its failure to adapt to climate change impacts is endangering the country’s goal of reducing emissions to net zero by 2050

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Life

Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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Life

Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

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Earth

Climate change could destroy wild relatives of cereals by 2070

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Technology

Applied minds: Why engineers are the real heroes

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