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Climate News: Australia just had its second-hottest year on record – and temperatures will rise again


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Heat records are tumbling - "Australia just had its second-hottest year on record – and temperatures will rise again";

"The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan";

"Victoria braces for weekend heatwave as total fire ban declared in state’s west";

"The key step to making your holiday period more environmentally friendly";

"Drilling could resume where a 1969 oil spill inspired Earth Day";

"Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People";

"The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades;"

"Solar panel prices have fallen by around 20% every time global capacity doubled";

"Why seas are surging";

"Will Trump Cut Short the Biden Clean-Energy Boom? Investors Are Nervous.";

"Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems";

"Poverty in Lahaina has doubled after 2023 wildfire: ‘We’re cutting down on what we eat’";

"Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions";

"50 years ago, Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin – and Australia’s attitude to disasters changed forever";

"New York aims to fine polluters up to $75 billion with new climate law";

"The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Ceaseless Assault on Climate Policy";

"‘Ambitious’ climate claim against Attorney-General dismissed";

"UK to finish with coal power after 142 years";

"Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024";

"Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates";

"The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative";

"The clean energy transition, in 10 charts";

"Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization’";

"New Mexico Lawmakers to Decide Whether Oil and Gas Wastewater Could Be Reused on Wide Scale";

"How to Start a Public University LNG Research Center: An LNG Lobbyist Director and Donations for Research Votes";

"Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK";

"AI air pollution takes deadly health toll";

"The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse";

"At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead";

"Amazon wildfires and droughts are ‘ominous indicators’ of a long-feared tipping point";

"Roadmap to COP30 - Climate Action in 2025";

"Here are 12 climate resolutions to take with you into the new year";

"World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record";

"A more common enemy - How climate change spreads diseases and makes them more dangerous";

 "Future fizzles: the promises and predictions for 2025 in Australia that came true (or didn’t)";

"Climate change will devastate value of homes, warns Bank of England";

"The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?";

"Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators";

"The effect of CO2 ramping rate on the transient weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation";

"Americans’ support for climate justice":

"To Combat Phoenix’s Extreme Heat, a New Program Provides Sustainable Shade";

"UK weather: amber snow warnings after temperatures hit -8C";

"China and Russia agree to deepen cooperation on Arctic shipping route";

"El Niño and La Niña, Explained

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