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Mother Earth, Gaia, the third rock from the Sun - whatever you call it, this 4.5 billion-year-old planet is the one that we and all known living creatures call home.

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Reality Check Is carbon offsetting a solution to flying emissions, or just passing the buck?

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The real value of Greenland is in the ice, rather than the minerals

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Malaria: deadly disease ‘could be wiped out as early as 2050’

Building for the future: three eco-cities preparing for overpopulation, rising sea levels and air pollution © Stefano Boeri Architetti

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Building for the future 3 eco-cities preparing for overpopulation, rising sea levels and air pollution

How accurately can we predict the weather? – Andrew Blum (Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio stares at a visual showing Hurricane Sandy using data from Goddard Earth Observing System Model © NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth)

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Andrew Blum How accurately can we predict the weather?

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In what ways are humans making the Earth less habitable?

Seven audacious ideas to reverse global warming © Penguin / Shutterstock

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Climate change Seven audacious ideas to reverse global warming

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Do we really know what climate change will do to our planet?

How does plastic get into the oceans?

Rock samples reveal mystery of the day the dinosaurs died

Interview Can planting billions of trees help tackle climate change?

Reality Check Is carbon offsetting a solution to flying emissions, or just passing the buck?

The real value of Greenland is in the ice, rather than the minerals

Seven beautiful clouds to brighten your day

Why are some icebergs green?

Malaria: deadly disease ‘could be wiped out as early as 2050’

Building for the future 3 eco-cities preparing for overpopulation, rising sea levels and air pollution

Andrew Blum How accurately can we predict the weather?

In what ways are humans making the Earth less habitable?

Climate change Seven audacious ideas to reverse global warming

Reality Check Could the Amazon rainforest become a desert?

Europe has enough untapped windfarm capacity to meet global energy needs

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Interview | Can planting billions of trees help tackle climate change?

Reality Check | Is carbon offsetting a solution to flying emissions, or just passing the buck?

Building for the future | 3 eco-cities preparing for overpopulation, rising sea levels and air pollution

Andrew Blum | How accurately can we predict the weather?

Climate change | Seven audacious ideas to reverse global warming

Reality Check | Could the Amazon rainforest become a desert?

Interview Can planting billions of trees help tackle climate change?

Reality Check Is carbon offsetting a solution to flying emissions, or just passing the buck?

Building for the future 3 eco-cities preparing for overpopulation, rising sea levels and air pollution

Andrew Blum How accurately can we predict the weather?

Climate change Seven audacious ideas to reverse global warming

Reality Check Could the Amazon rainforest become a desert?