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China accounted for two-thirds of new global coal plant capacity in 2023, report finds
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China accounted for two-thirds of new global coal plant capacity in 2023 ...
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These Climate Activists Make People Uncomfortable — And It’s Working: Last week, the guerilla activist group recounted the powerful people it’s made ...
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These Climate Activists Make People Uncomfortable — And It’s Working
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U.S. firm's Vietnam coal deal 'undermines' climate goal: report: HO CHI MINH CITY -- A U.S. company's planned sale of its coal assets in Vietnam ...
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U.S. firm's Vietnam coal deal 'undermines' climate goal: report
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Eastside carbon emissions still below pre-pandemic levels, studies find: Greenhouse gas emissions on the Eastside have not bounced back to levels seen before the ...
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Eastside carbon emissions still below pre-pandemic levels, studies find
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Biden administration announces strategy to combat future pandemics with 50 country partnership
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Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods : Questions have swirled online about the process being behind the historic rainfall – but experts say it’s not ...
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Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods
Quick Glance: Cloud Seeding and the Record-Breaking Rains in Dubai
  • Record-breaking rainfall in the UAE has caused widespread flooding.

  • Experts speculate that cloud seeding may have contributed to this unprecedented weather event.

  • Cloud seeding is a technique where special salt flares are burned in clouds to stimulate rain.

  • While cloud seeding is practiced in many countries, some scientists remain cautious about its long-term impacts.
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Biden administration announces strategy to combat future pandemics with 50 country partnership
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Biden administration announces strategy to combat future pandemics with 50 ...
Quick Glance: Biden admin partners with 50 nations to prevent future pandemics
  • President Joe Biden's administration will assist 50 countries in identifying and responding to infectious diseases to prevent future pandemics like Covid-19.

  • The U.S. will collaborate with countries to enhance testing, surveillance, communication, and preparedness for outbreaks.

  • The announcement addresses the challenge of achieving a global agreement on responses to future pandemics.

  • The U.S. government will involve multiple agencies to aid countries in refining their infectious disease response.
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The worst pandemic imaginable: A highly contagious prion disease is spreading among wild animals. Experts are wondering whether it can also infect people - and ...
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The worst pandemic imaginable
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Two years to save the planet, says UN climate chief, and other nature and climate stories you need to read this week
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Two years to save the planet, says UN climate chief, and other nature and ...
Quick Glance: Scottish Government Abandons 'World-Leading' Climate Target
  • The Scottish Government has abandoned its “world-leading” target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.

  • Ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the climate change target “better reflects the reality of long-term climate policymaking”.

  • Scotland will move away from legally binding annual targets to a five-yearly carbon budget approach.

  • A new package of climate action measures was announced, including tripling the number of charging points for electric vehicles and exploring a new integrated ticketing system for public transport in Scotland.
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Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates
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Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum ...
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One year after the nuclear phase-out: were the concerns justified?: Power outages, imported nuclear energy, more coal: how justified were the concerns following ...
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One year after the nuclear phase-out: were the concerns justified?
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ...
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Local and long-distance transport is experiencing a "real boom": Deutsche Bahn's passenger numbers had almost halved during the coronavirus pandemic. However ...
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Local and long-distance transport is experiencing a
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UAE Witnesses Highest Rainfall in 75 Years: According to a statement released by the National Center of Meteorology, the United Arab Emirates experienced the ...
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UAE Witnesses Highest Rainfall in 75 Years
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Turnover of medical practices in 2022: Turnover of medical practices remains at previous year's level - figures published for 2022
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Turnover of medical practices in 2022
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall, massive flooding, hits desert nation
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ...
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More in new survey prefer hybrid to remote work: Story at a glance Workers in 2024 say they prefer hybrid work to remote work, reversing a trend seen in the ...
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More in new survey prefer hybrid to remote work
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COVID Patient’s Infection Lasts Record 613 Days—and Accumulated Over 50 Mutations
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COVID Patient’s Infection Lasts Record 613 Days—and Accumulated Over 50 ...
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Earth has its warmest March on record, beating 2023's milestone: Global average temperatures are running hotter than last year, which was the globe's ...
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Earth has its warmest March on record, beating 2023's milestone
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Average world income 'to fall 19% due to climate change': The effects of climate change will reduce income across the world economy by 19% in the next ...
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Average world income 'to fall 19% due to climate change'
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Jane Fonda’s advice to people depressed about the future: Get involved: Jane Fonda knows what it feels like to worry about the future.
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Jane Fonda’s advice to people depressed about the future: Get involved
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"Climate lie": ORF rejects Baumgartner's statements about Wadsak: Felix Baumgartner accused ORF meteorologists of "climate lies". ORF warns of insult, defamation ...
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Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study: Mali and Burkina Faso recorded most extreme heat in what scientists called a ...
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Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study
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Dubai's record-shattering "rain bomb" has clear climate change ties
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Quick Glance: Dubai Submerged in Floods After Year's Worth of Rain
  • More than 142mm of rain soaked Dubai within 24 hours.

  • Heavy thunderstorms hit the UAE, pouring over a year's worth of rain on Dubai in just hours.

  • Authorities dispatched tanker trucks to pump water off the streets as some homes were inundated, requiring residents to bail them out.

  • Rain is uncommon in the UAE, causing flooding due to insufficient drainage systems in many areas.
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After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air': The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a ...
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After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air'
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Winter likely to be much warmer than normal but La Nina could be coming: Much of Australia is likely in for one of the warmest winters on record ...
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Winter likely to be much warmer than normal but La Nina could be coming
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Sydney set for giant pumped hydro project to rival Snowy 2.0: A green energy company backed by WaterNSW plans to use an abandoned coal washery as the site for a ...
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Sydney set for giant pumped hydro project to rival Snowy 2.0
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Care slowly improving: Lauterbach: "The long Covid problem remains unsolved": A year ago, Karl Lauterbach declared the pandemic officially over ...
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Care slowly improving: Lauterbach:
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The wallet-busting era of car ownership: Driving is more expensive than it's been in decades.
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The wallet-busting era of car ownership
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Most Seattle-area renters report big rent hikes in the past 12 months: Fifty-three percent of Seattle-area renters saw their monthly rent jump more than $100 in ...
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Most Seattle-area renters report big rent hikes in the past 12 months
Quick Glance: Majority of Seattle-area Renters Report Significant Rent Increases in Past 12 Months
  • While rents in the Seattle area and nationally surged in the early pandemic years, the rental market seems to have calmed since 2023, providing some relief to local tenants.

  • However, recent survey data from the US Census Bureau suggests that the majority of renters in the Seattle area may not agree with these reports.

  • Out of the estimated 658,000 individuals who experienced rent hikes, approximately 113,000 had a relatively minor increase of under $100. A significantly larger group - around 306,000 - saw their rent rise between $100 and $249 per month.

  • Established in 2020 as a response to the pandemic, the initiative aimed to inform authorities and policymakers about the pandemic's effects on communities nationwide and offer data to support recovery post-pandemic.
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Short-sighted energy policy: the nuclear phase-out is window dressing: The nuclear phase-out a year ago was wrong. Instead of new gas-fired power plants ...
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Short-sighted energy policy: the nuclear phase-out is window dressing
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Why child care costs are soaring: Wages in the industry have risen fast in the last few years — but they're still pretty low.
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Why child care costs are soaring
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DPM Lawrence Wong to take over from PM Lee on May 15: He is leader of the PAP’s 4G team and will be Singapore's fourth prime minister.
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DPM Lawrence Wong to take over from PM Lee on May 15
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China Leads Global Coal Power Surge With New Plants, Capacity at Record: Global coal-power capacity rose to a record last year, led by a surge in new plants in ...
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China Leads Global Coal Power Surge With New Plants, Capacity at Record
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Darmstadt pulmonologist Cihan Çelik receives Federal Cross of Merit in Wiesbaden: The pulmonologist at the Darmstadt Clinic will be awarded the Federal Cross of ...
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Darmstadt pulmonologist Cihan Çelik receives Federal Cross of Merit in ...
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Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass bleaching in warming oceans
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Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass ...
Quick Glance: Global Coral Bleaching Event After Extreme Heat
  • US climate agency NOAA declares a concerning global coral bleaching event for the fourth time in history after a year of extreme ocean heat.

  • Impacts of coral bleaching span oceans worldwide, with sea surface temperatures at record levels.

  • Corals under extreme heat stress can recover, but otherwise, the reef requires several years to regenerate.

  • Despite losses, some reefs show signs of color, offering hope for potential recovery, while scientists caution about the escalating impacts.
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In Kenya, drought-tolerant camels replace cows for herders: Herders in Kenya are substituting camels for cows, whose numbers have declined by the millions as ...
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In Kenya, drought-tolerant camels replace cows for herders
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26 barges break loose in Pittsburgh, travel uncontrollably down Ohio River: More than two dozen barges broke loose on the Ohio River in Pittsburgh ...
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26 barges break loose in Pittsburgh, travel uncontrollably down Ohio River
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Summer weather in Germany in April: too good to be good: What feels nice for the moment is actually extreme. The weather shows how acute the situation is: ...
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Summer weather in Germany in April: too good to be good
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Moderna pauses Kenya plant plans as COVID vaccine demand wanes: Moderna said on Thursday it had paused its plans to build a vaccine manufacturing facility in ...
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Moderna pauses Kenya plant plans as COVID vaccine demand wanes
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Scientists navigate the paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world: According to Copernicus Climate Change Service, February 2024 was the warmest February ...
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Scientists navigate the paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world
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Nuclear phase-out: high electricity prices - Does Germany lack nuclear power plants?
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Nuclear phase-out: high electricity prices - Does Germany lack nuclear ...
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Dozens killed in Afghanistan as heavy rains set off flash floods: Most casualties have been from roof collapses, while some 600 houses have been damaged or ...
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Dozens killed in Afghanistan as heavy rains set off flash floods
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Landmark court ruling finds Switzerland failed its citizens on climate change: The ruling is expected to resonate in court decisions across Europe and beyond ...
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Landmark court ruling finds Switzerland failed its citizens on climate ...
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European court rules nations must protect citizens from effects of climate change
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European court rules nations must protect citizens from effects of climate ...
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Flu epidemic over: How the cold season has gone: After 15 weeks, the flu epidemic has come to an end and the RSV wave is also over. Nevertheless ...
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Flu epidemic over: How the cold season has gone
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Global heat record broken for 10th consecutive month in March: With an average surface temperature of 57.45 degrees, last month was warmer than any previous ...
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Global heat record broken for 10th consecutive month in March
Quick Glance: Global Record: Warmest March Ever
  • Last month marked the warmest March globally on record and the tenth consecutive month with new temperature records for respective months.

  • According to a report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU's climate monitoring service, global temperatures in March surpassed the pre-industrial average for that month from 1850 to 1900 by 1.68°C and were 0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average for March. The previous month also exceeded the previous March record by 0.10°C set in 2016.

  • The global average temperature from April 2023 to March 2024 is now the highest on record, standing at 1.58°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

  • In Europe, temperatures in March 2024 were 2.12°C above the 1991-2020 average for the month, with significantly above-average temperatures observed in central and eastern Europe.
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Harvard will require test scores for admission again: Applicants to Harvard College will need to report their SAT or ACT scores again, reversing a pandemic-era ...
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Harvard will require test scores for admission again
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How immigration is helping the economy defy expectations: Policymakers are increasingly pointing to an immigration influx and a bolstered U.S ...
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How immigration is helping the economy defy expectations
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Dealing with the pandemic: lessons for Germany from the coronavirus era: One year after the last corona measures expired, the debate about coming to terms with ...
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Dealing with the pandemic: lessons for Germany from the coronavirus era
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Finally! Tough new safety rules on silica dust are out to protect miners' lungs: Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say ...
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Finally! Tough new safety rules on silica dust are out to protect miners' ...
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Inflation report March 2024: Consumer prices accelerated in March to 3.5%: Inflation remained elevated once again in March, adding another round of price ...
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Inflation report March 2024: Consumer prices accelerated in March to 3.5%
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Corona reappraisal now! The pandemic policy was wrong: If we want to overcome the social divide, the pandemic must have consequences. A guest article.
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Corona reappraisal now! The pandemic policy was wrong
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Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules: The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights issue ...
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Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules
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Dubai flights: DXB issues advisory ahead of expected unstable weather - News | Khaleej Times
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Dubai flights: DXB issues advisory ahead of expected unstable weather - ...
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A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up: On a scale not seen in decades, many Americans are stuck in homes they would rather leave.
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A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up
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How Royal Caribbean is leading the charge in the cruise industry comeback: The cruise industry has made a comeback, and Royal Caribbean is leading the charge.
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How Royal Caribbean is leading the charge in the cruise industry comeback
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Top European court hands Swiss women victory in landmark climate ruling: Verdict will have ripple effect in Europe and beyond, likely setting precedent for how ...
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Top European court hands Swiss women victory in landmark climate ruling