Reports and Studies
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HotSat-1: Spacecraft to map UK’s heat inefficient buildings
A novel British satellite designed to map the heat signature of buildings has been launched. The idea is to highlight…
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Flight turbulence increasing as planet heats up – study
Flight turbulence has increased as climate change has warmed the planet, researchers say. Scientists at Reading University in the UK…
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Can humans and rats live together in Paris?
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is forming a committee to study “cohabitation” – to what extent humans and rodents can live…
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Wildfires: UK to set up new Mediterranean-style specialist units
Firefighters will deploy new techniques learnt in the world’s worst wildfire hotspots as climate change raises the risk level in…
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El Niño planet-warming weather phase has begun
A natural weather event known as El Niño has begun in the Pacific Ocean, likely adding heat to a planet…
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Is climate change fuelling Canada’s wildfires?
Intense wildfires are blazing across Canada with thousands evacuated and smoke blown as far south as the US state of…
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Crocodile found to have made herself pregnant
The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica. She…
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Canada’s record wildfires should be ‘wake-up call’, experts warn
“Do you smell smoke?” That’s the question people in Canada have been asking each other this week as hundreds of…
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Singapore apologises after comedian’s MH370 joke
Singapore’s foreign minister and the country’s High Commissioner to Malaysia have apologised after a Singapore-born comedian performing in New York…
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First ‘virgin birth’ in crocodile found in Costa Rica
Scientists have documented the first-known instance of a “virgin birth” by a crocodile, which had been living in isolation for…
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