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Logging detritus with misty forest in the background

Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb

By Barry Saxifrage | Climate Change

Part of a glaciar breaks off into the ocean

What’s climate change really doing to the ocean? Ask the robots

By Mariana Bernardi Bif | Climate Change

An photograph of microscopic ocean plants, or phytoplankton

Beware the Blob! Ocean heat waves threaten microbes that help counter global warming

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Is Amazon rainforest going from carbon sink to carbon source?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change