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Trump’s push to control Greenland faces overwhelming rejection from locals, Americans and NATO allies. But he doesn’t care.

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Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

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