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A new study has identified a causal link between cleaner air in China and reductions in suicide.
Dialogue Earth
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Humanity must rethink migration as the climate crisis drives rapid global changes, researchers say.
University of Exeter
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Widely thought to be responsible for Earth's extreme warmth during the past two years, researchers say the event actually cooled the climate.
Texas A&M University Press
Wildfire raging near houses
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The world’s most energetic wildfires have doubled in intensity and number over the past 2 decades, with climate change and land management likely to blame.
Eos - AGU
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A type of invisible, unpredictable air turbulence is expected to occur more frequently in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, according to new research.
American Geophysical Union
Workers drain a flooded thoroughfare after a night of severe thunderstorms in Kisumu, Kenya
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The past century of human-induced warming has increased rainfall variability over 75% of the Earth's land area - particularly over Australia, Europe and eastern North America, new research shows.
Conversation Media Group, the
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New research from ANU has shown that climate change is negatively affecting the emotional wellbeing of young Australians. These feelings are exacerbated by what young people see as shortcomings in their climate education.
Australian National University
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In 2021, Montreal’s air quality was degraded by forest fires burning thousands of kilometres away, a study shows.
Université de Montréal

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