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Turkish Lake with Likely Clues to Mars Gains Unwanted Fame

Boasting azure waters and white sands, a Turkish lake that NASA thinks hides secrets about Mars threatens to become too popular for its own good.

Lake Salda gained international renown when US scientists began poking around in preparation for the Perseverance rover mission, which has been beaming back videos from the Red Planet since February.

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China Doubles Down on Coal Plants Abroad despite Carbon Pledge at Home

China will press ahead with its multi-billion-dollar financing of coal plants in developing countries, a top climate official said Tuesday, despite Beijing's stated aim of slashing carbon emissions.

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Biden Cranks Up U.S. Ambition as Summit Lifts Climate Hopes

President Joe Biden on Thursday sharply ramped up US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada in raising commitments at a summit whose promises bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change.

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Arctic Sizzled in 2020, the Warmest Year for Europe Too

Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Thursday.

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Putin Vows Russia Will Fight Climate Change

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday vowed that Russia, one of the world's oil and gas producing giants, would do its part to fight climate change and develop carbon recycling. 

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European Parliament, EU Member States Agree Target to Cut CO2

The European Parliament and EU member states have agreed a target to cut carbon emissions by "at least" 55 percent by 2030, the EU Commission said in a statement released early Wednesday.

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Biden Pressed on Emissions Goal as Climate Summit nears

When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will have a tangible impact not only on climate change efforts in the U.S. but throughout the world.

The emissions target, eagerly awaited by all sides of the climate debate, will signal how aggressively Biden wants to move on climate change, a divisive and expensive issue that has riled Republicans to complain about job-killing government overreach even as some on the left worry Biden has not gone far enough to address a profound threat to the planet.

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US Envoy Kerry Starts Climate Talks in China

US climate envoy John Kerry met with his Chinese counterparts in Shanghai on Thursday, in the first visit to China by an official from a Biden administration seeking to re-establish America's leadership on the environment.

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India's Desert Salt Farmers Feel the Heat from Climate Change

Roshni Thakor left school to harvest salt from a sun-baked Indian desert, a backbreaking trade practised by her ancestors for centuries but now threatened by climate change.

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Noise Pollution Poses Long-Term Risk to Trees

Noise pollution poses a long-term risk to tree populations and plant diversity that may persist even after the sources of excess noise are removed, according to research published Wednesday.

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