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      <image:title>Satellite views of vegetation could sharpen temperature forecasts</image:title>
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      <image:title>Tree rings link rising CO2 to declining nitrogen availability in boreal forests</image:title>
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      <image:title>During heatwaves, soil evaporation carried more of the surface-cooling load</image:title>
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      <image:title>Old weather files can mis-size net-zero homes for today&apos;s climate</image:title>
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      <image:title>S&amp;P 500 climate reports disclosed only one-fifth of adaptation details</image:title>
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      <image:title>Kenya&apos;s maize climate-risk map points beyond weather to roads and land tenure</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://affectclimatechange.com/assets/images/news/20260210-low-emissions-hydrogen-pipeline.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Low-emissions hydrogen is growing, but firm buyers lag the project pipeline</image:title>
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      <image:title>Foundation piles doubled as geothermal heat exchangers in a full-scale field test</image:title>
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      <image:title>Better climate data can keep wind and solar forecasts honest</image:title>
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      <image:title>A 1,100-year ice-core record adds a climate caution for hydrogen</image:title>
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      <image:title>Human-caused warming is widening the global heat-stress divide</image:title>
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      <image:title>Weather-aware siting could make Africa&apos;s wind and solar buildout more reliable</image:title>
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      <image:title>Carbon removal can protect climate refuges—or crowd them out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Flexible tandem solar cell reaches 27.3% by controlling crystallization</image:title>
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      <image:title>Extreme-weather disruption may drive most of Africa&apos;s added malaria risk</image:title>
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      <image:title>A Finnish bird digital twin turns phone recordings into next-day forecasts</image:title>
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      <image:title>Brazil&apos;s farm soils carry a 1.4-petagram carbon debt</image:title>
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      <image:title>New global maps show cooling needs rising fastest before 2°C</image:title>
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      <image:title>Climate-mode collisions could sharpen coastal flood warnings months ahead</image:title>
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      <image:title>Perovskite cell retains over 95% of its initial efficiency after 1,500 hours</image:title>
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      <image:title>A nanoscale tracer detects hidden groundwater pollution in a field test</image:title>
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      <image:title>Evaporation-powered lab device reaches 1 volt and 0.25 watts per square meter</image:title>
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      <image:title>Lower emissions sharply reduce modeled spread of year-round river heatwaves</image:title>
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      <image:title>Southern Ocean phytoplankton show opposite regional patterns during temperature extremes</image:title>
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