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Drone view of savanna vegetation and rock formation

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Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row

Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

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Stalagmites at Oregon Caves National Monument

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What ancient stalagmites can tell us about life on a hotter Earth

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Alaskan forests may store more carbon after being burned by wildfire

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wildfires from the air

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Recent Australian wildfires led to record atmospheric pollution

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egret in the Amazon

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Changing sounds reveal impact of Amazon fires on animal life

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Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

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Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

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Historic California wildfires likely to be fuelled by climate change

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Amazon fires

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Major fires hit the Amazon and the Arctic for the second year in a row

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Huge amounts of carbon from forest fires ends up in the ocean

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Huge amounts of carbon from forest fires ends up in the ocean

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'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow

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'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow

Unprecedented Arctic fires from last summer appear to have smouldered in the underground peat of the tundra through winter and reignited this month as snow melted

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Rare herb devastated by Australian bush fires saved by seed bank

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Climate change made Australian bushfires more likely, says report

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Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest

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Area of Amazon affected by wildfires predicted to grow by 2050

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