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Environment + Energy editor of @ConversationUK. Come for the academics ranting about climate change, stay for me ranting about football.
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Why Greenland plays an outsized role in climate change science

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By Will de Freitas Verified
| Tolerance Canada
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. “Observing Greenland from a helicopter,” one scientist wrote last year, “the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before … realising what I suspected were floating shards of ice were in fact icebergs the size of office blocks.
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Why Greenland plays an outsized role in climate change science

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By Will de Freitas Verified
| The Conversation Verified
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. “Observing Greenland from a helicopter,” one scientist wrote last year, “the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before … realising what I suspected were floating shards of ice were in fact icebergs the size of office blocks.
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A few reasons to feel hopeful about the climate in 2026

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By Will de Freitas Verified
| Dhaka Tribune Verified
2025 was a brutal year for the climate: Record temperatures, ever more extreme weather and so on. We rarely got a break from the bad news. This week, rather than saying what’s going wrong, we are looking at what’s starting to go right -- and why it matters. This isn’t blind faith. It’s what some academics call “grounded optimism,” based on data, momentum, and the surprising resilience of people and ecosystems. A positive tipping point?
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