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US President Joe Biden celebrating the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act

Environment

US action on climate change will start to get serious in 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act will accelerate US progress on boosting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions in 2023 as a decade of funding starts

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Bulldozers on a large pile of snow

Environment

Winter storms in US set to continue while Europe sees record warmth

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Madison Thomson a forester with The Conservation Fund measure a Redwood tree in the Big River Forest near Fort Bragg, California

Environment

California's carbon offsetting may actually be increasing emissions

Analysis

Nuclear power plant

Technology

Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ

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Protesters hold placards during a

Earth

2022: The year of rolling polycrisis, but with a few glimmers of hope

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Part of the Guadiana river has dried up and gives way to dry land under the Puente de la Mesta medieval bridge in Villarta de los Montes, in the central-western Spanish region of Extremadura, on August 16, 2022. - Temperatures in Spain have been very high this summer with several unusual heat waves. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs say human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events including heatwaves and droughts more frequent and more intense. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Extreme drought in 2022 exposed fragility of Europe’s energy system

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TOPSHOT - Icebergs float in Disko Bay, Ilulissat, western Greenland, on June 28, 2022. - The icebergs originate from Jakobshavn glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. The massive icebergs that detach from the glacier float for years in the waters in front of the fjord before being carried south by ocean currents. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

The Arctic and Antarctic saw record warmth and ice melt in 2022

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Peter Dejong/AP/Shutterstock (13628749bk) Activists take part in a protest at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt COP27 Climate Summit, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - 18 Nov 2022

Environment

This year's COP27 set up a major battle for next year's climate summit

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Read Orris, an exclusive sci-fi short story from Arkady Martine

Humans

Read Orris, an exclusive sci-fi short story from Arkady Martine

Culture

Empty street in London

Environment

Puzzling methane rise in 2020 linked to pandemic lockdown effects

A spike in the greenhouse gas methane in 2020 may be explained in part by a drop in nitrogen oxide emissions during the covid-19 pandemic

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Environment

What impact will planned new UK coal mine have on carbon emissions?

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Environment

Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035

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Technology

Heat pump uses a loudspeaker and wet strips of paper to cool air

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Environment

COP15 target to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is ‘unrealistic’

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