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It’s official: the oceans are warmer than ever © Getty Images

It’s official: the oceans are warmer than ever

Microsoft boss outlines plans to entirely reverse carbon footprint by 2050 (Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft Corp. campus in Redmond, Washington, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 © David Ryder/Bloomberg)

Microsoft boss outlines radical plans to entirely reverse its carbon footprint by 2050

What would happen if the Earth became tidally locked to the Sun? © Getty Images

What would happen if the Earth became tidally locked to the Sun?

Bacteria growing and mineralising in the sand-hydrogel structure © Colorado University Boulder/PA

Environmentally friendly ‘living concrete’ capable of self-healing

More than 160,000 people could die over the next decade from strokes and heart attacks caused by air pollution, the British Heart Foundation has warned © Getty Images

Air pollution could kill ‘equivalent of more than 40 people’ a day by the next decade

Wild ideas in science: Mushrooms could save the world © Scott Balmer

Wild ideas in science Mushrooms could save the world

If global warming increases rainfall, could the extra clouds block sunlight and help cool the Earth? © Getty Images

If global warming increases rainfall, could the extra clouds block sunlight and help cool the Earth?

How to reduce your carbon footprint – for next to nothing

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8 UK high-temperature records broken in the 2010s © Getty Images

UK climate 2010s second-hottest decade in last 100 years

5 interesting facts about volcanoes to shake up what you know about them © Getty Images

Volcanoes 5 things that’ll shake up what you know about them

What would have happened if we’d carried on using CFCs? © Getty Images

What would have happened if we’d carried on using CFCs?

Electric oceans: membrane creates energy from seawater © Getty Images

Electric oceans: membrane creates energy from seawater

How we can save the oceans, and how they can save us © Alamy, Getty Images

How we can save the oceans, and how they can save us

New Zealand volcano: what happened when White Island erupted? © Shutterstock

New Zealand volcano What happened when White Island erupted?

Children among the worst hit by climate change © Getty Images

Children among the worst hit by climate change