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Icy landscape

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Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

A freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres deep floated on our planet鈥檚 oceans for some 50,000 years after the end of an extreme ice age

Scott Pruitt

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Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists

march

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Climate march brings more than 200,000 activists together

Morteratsch and Pers Glacier in the Alps

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Plan to regrow receding Swiss glacier by blowing artificial snow

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Seabed images show the scars icebergs carve into polar sea floor

Soy fields

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Amazon rainforest under threat as Brazil tears up protections

Marchers in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, with a sign saying "Stop Lying"

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On the ground in Washington at the March for Science

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Ancient carvings show comet hit Earth and triggered mini ice age

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Environment chief says US should exit Paris climate agreement

Sign advertising property to rent on flooded street

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Internal migration of millions as seas rise will rattle whole US

It's not just coastal areas that will be affected by rising waters, and the US might be hopelessly underprepared unless planning starts now

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California鈥檚 wet year eases drought but many still lack water

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It鈥檚 not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians

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Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row

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Record amounts of renewable energy added to the mix in 2016