The Rutford Ice Stream of western Antarctica slips about a metre (3 ft) a day towards the sea but the rate varies 20 percent in tandem with two-week tidalย cycles.
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The Rutford Ice Stream of western Antarctica slips about a metre (3 ft) a day towards the sea but the rate varies 20 percent in tandem with two-week tidalย cycles.
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Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 โ the global climate summit.
Their access to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds "a dangerous sway" over the climate process, campaigners say.
Delegationโs composition consistent with new KBPO report revealingย this yearโs U.N. climate talks have the largest number of fossil fuel lobbyists to date.
Labour government accused of being โcomplicit in the fossil fuel industryโs conquest of the COP processโ.
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