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  • The US presidential candidates and the nation they seek to lead are divided over climate change. The stakes are high as voters head to the polls.

    • Karl Mathiesen
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  • Some Pacific Island communities are already moving themselves beyond rising tides, but there's nothing simple about how, why or when they're doing it.

    • Michael Green
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  • The Paris Agreement gave the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage a permanent and potentially prominent place in climate negotiations, but beyond that its impact remains wide open for interpretation.

    • Anna Petherick
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  • Health impacts have been excluded from assessments of palm oil production but they could alter governments' view of the industry.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Health improvement and nutritional change could be an innovative route to emissions reduction. It makes sense to combine these previously divorced aims by measuring the carbon impacts of diet.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Often viewed as the fossil-fuel industry's spotless neighbour, renewable energy's association with a 'dirty' activity is intensifying. Renewable energy companies need to disclose more about their heavy reliance on mining.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Adaptation of water resources management will help communities adjust to changes in the water cycle expected with climate change, but it can't be fixed by innovations alone.

    • Lisa Palmer
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  • Scientists have offered numerous explanations for the recent slowdown in global surface warming. Now, one study suggests that tropical trade winds may hold the answer.

    • Olive Heffernan
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  • Mandatory buildings disclosure in the United States opens the door to improved energy performance. Other countries could follow suit, explains Elisabeth Jeffries.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Lessons from the treatment of addiction may help to change peoples' awareness of nature.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Obama entered his first presidential term promising action on climate change, but the main climate bill disintegrated. What can be done during his second term?

    • Anna Petherick
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  • Clothing containing recycled bottles and food industry by-products is a funky alternative now available in shopping malls. But it may generate only minor environmental benefits.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Disputes over intellectual property rights can delay the spread of clean technologies to the developing world, but they are not wholly to blame.

    • Elisabeth Jeffries
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  • Brazil has been a voice for, and a green influence on, developing countries in the past, but will that continue?

    • Anna Petherick
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  • The fields of climate change and livestock research have not always been cosy bedfellows. But they are ironing out their difficulties and looking ahead.

    • Anna Petherick
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  • Tools and methodologies for reducing uncertainties in climate change knowledge are now available, but it is disputed to what extent increased confidence in data will lead to increased action on carbon emissions.

    • Monica Contestabile
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  • Industrial symbiosis — the sharing of by-product resources among diverse industries — can reduce costs and improve the environment. But despite its benefits, it is no panacea.

    • Sonja van Renssen
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  • Teaching the science of climate change has become a political issue in many schools across the United States. Nature Climate Change look at an education battle against denialists.

    • Mason Inman
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  • Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could solve our waste and energy problems at the same time, by turning one into the other? Attempts have been made to do just that, by making fuel from waste through pyrolysis.

    • Mason Inman
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