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FILE - Wind turbines stand in front of the rising sun in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 11, 2022. A United Nation-backed panel plans to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday, April 4, 2022, on international efforts to curb climate change before global temperatures reach dangerous levels. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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UN: Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

by Frank Jordans Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressApril 4, 2022

FILE - Vivek Shandas, a professor of climate adaptation at Portland State University, takes a temperature reading of almost 106 degrees in downtown Portland, Ore., on Aug. 12, 2021. On Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released measurements showing 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming trend. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

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Earth has 6th warmest year on record

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJanuary 13, 2022

The Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is shown in 2020.

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Scientists explore Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJanuary 5, 2022

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, greet U.S. President Joe Biden , at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (Christopher Furlong/Pool via AP)

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Leaders dial up doomsday warning as UN climate summit opens

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressNovember 1, 2021

The United Nations headquarters is reflected in a window Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, on 1st Ave. in New York. The 76th Session of the UN General Assembly begins this week. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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UN pressing world leaders to do more to curtail warming

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressSeptember 20, 2021

A central solinoid magnet for the ITER project arrives in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Scientists at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in southern France took delivery of the first part of a massive magnet so strong its American manufacturer claims it can lift an aircraft carrier. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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Dream of nuclear fusion gets closer

by Frank Jordans Associated Press, Seth Borenstein Associated Press, and Daniel Cole Associated PressSeptember 9, 2021

FILE - In this Monday, July 26, 2021, file photo, cows graze as smoke rises from the Dixie Fire burning in Lassen National Forest, near Jonesville, Calif. A historic drought and recent heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. On Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, U.S. weather officials said Earth in July was the hottest month ever recorded. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

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Global sizzling: July was hottest month on record, NOAA says

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 13, 2021

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, a man watches as wildfires approach Kochyli beach near Limni village on the island of Evia, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, Greece. A new massive United Nations science report is scheduled for release Monday Aug. 9, 2021, reporting on the impact of global warming due to humans. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou)

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UN: ‘Code red’ on global warming

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 9, 2021

FILE - In this July 28, 2008, file photo, a female Lymantria dispar moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. In July 2021, the Entomological Society of America announced it is dropping the common name of this destructive insect that is also an ethnic slur against a group of people: the gypsy moth. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

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Bug experts seeking new name for destructive gypsy moths

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 9, 2021

This illustration provided by Carl Knox depicts a black hole, center, swallowing a neutron star, upper left. The blue lines are gravitational waves, ripples in time and space, which is how astronomers detected the merger, and orange and red areas indicate parts of the neutron star being stripped away. In a report released on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, astronomers say they have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe, _ all in a split-second...

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Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJune 29, 2021