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Aerial view of the round structures of the AmazonFACE experiment built in a National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) research area, located 80 km north of Manaus. AmazonFACE is one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted in the Amazon. It simulates, in a tropical forest area, the impact of the increase in atmospheric CO2 predicted for the coming decades. Using FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) technology, the project seeks to understand how climate change will affect the forest, its biodiversity, and the beneficial functions it currently carries out.

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Testing the Amazon's ability to soak up increasing carbon emissions

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and fauna react to the levels we expect to reach in the future. Photographer Lalo de Almeida captures the vast machinery of the AmazonFACE project

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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past

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Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts

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Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation

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Young woman, wearing a orange jacket, is reading a book on an ebook reader during sunset over Himalayas. She is sitting on the top of a mountain and holding the e-reader.The afternoon sun on the background. Mount Everest National Park. This is the highest national park in the world, with the entire park located above 3,000 m ( 9,700 ft). This park includes three peaks higher than 8,000 m, including Mt Everest. Therefore, most of the park area is very rugged and steep, with its terrain cut by deep rivers and glaciers. Unlike other parks in the plain areas, this park can be divided into four climate zones because of the rising altitude. The climatic zones include a forested lower zone, a zone of alpine scrub, the upper alpine zone which includes upper limit of vegetation growth, and the Arctic zone where no plants can grow.

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Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread

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The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica

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Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf

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Icebergs in the Arctic

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Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

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What is cloud seeding and could it end the drought in Iran?

Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agents in clouds, but the technique is likely to have modest benefits at best

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Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current

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Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off

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When rift lakes dry up it can cause earthquakes and eruptions

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COP30: What’s on the agenda at the Belém climate summit

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