Heavy flooding, severe storms, record heat waves — climate change has brought an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. This is affecting people, ecosystems and economies around the world.

El Nino threatens livelihoods in Southeast Asia

Hotter, drier weather is impeding rice and palm-oil production as people in Southeast Asia struggle to pay their bills.

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Dutch nursery growing shade trees for warming cities

With summer approaching, cities are wondering how to cope with rising temperatures. Shade trees are key.

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How a 'super El Nino' could change global weather

Experts say the brewing El Nino could push the global climate system to its limits.

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Preaching and teaching in a warming world

US pastors, a Ugandan musician, and salmon-friendly tech delivered good environmental news this week.

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How cities are adapting to a warming world

As heat waves grow more frequent and fierce, cities worldwide are racing to cool streets and reshape urban life.

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As hot summer, blackouts loom, Iraq looks to solar power

With summer blackouts an annual event, why has Iraq's government only recently started to take solar power seriously?

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High-functioning depression: When success masks suffering

Some people are highly productive and efficient despite depression. So it can't be that bad, right? Wrong!

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DNA had one rule. Bacteria didn't get the memo

Every cell in the body copies DNA the same way. A bacterial protein just did something scientists had never seen before.

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On the couch and into the psyche: Why Freud still matters

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis and was the first to popularize the concept of the human unconscious.

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Is there anything GLP-1 agonist drugs cannot do?

From type 2 diabetes to weight loss, GLP-1 agonist drugs keep getting repurposed. It's cheaper than developing new ones.

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Daraxonrasib can double the years left to live for patients with pancreatic cancer, but it doesn't cure the disease.

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Fossil of prehistoric elephant relative rebuilt in Bavaria

A spectacular skeleton of a prehistoric relation of modern elephants is on display in Munich for the first time.

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