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SummaryThe sweeping new report documenting the world's changing climate released on 9 August by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put a fresh spotlight on China, a country responsible for more than one-quarter of the…

SummaryEvery time the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a new report surveying the science of global warming, the alarm sounds louder. Now, 8 years after its last report, the message of IPCC's latest assessment,…

SummaryPlastic winds up everywhere—from the top of Mount Everest to remote Antarctica. And every year, millions of tons of discarded plastic also wash into the ocean. Research about ocean plastic is swelling, too, from 46 papers in 2011 to…