Climate Change

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Climate change affects Central Europe more intensely than the global average. We cover Slovak agriculture, water management, energy pricing, and the policy response from both Brussels and national governments.

Quick facts

  • Central Europe is warming faster than the global mean — roughly 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
  • The EU Green Deal targets climate neutrality by 2050, with a 55 % emissions cut by 2030 as the interim goal.
  • In Slovakia, the largest climate impacts hit forestry, water resources and agriculture.
What Is the Green Sahara—and Why Did It Vanish? Science

What Is the Green Sahara—and Why Did It Vanish?

The world's largest hot desert was once a lush landscape of lakes, rivers, and grasslands. Scientists call this era the African Humid Period, and new...

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How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions Science

How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions

Surging glaciers can accelerate to 100 times their normal speed, damming rivers, triggering catastrophic floods, and destroying infrastructure. Here i...

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How Ticks Spread Disease—From Bite to Bloodstream Health

How Ticks Spread Disease—From Bite to Bloodstream

Tick-borne diseases affect hundreds of thousands of people each year. Here's how these tiny arachnids transmit pathogens, which diseases they carry, w...

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What Is the Ocean Methane Paradox—and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Ocean Methane Paradox—and Why It Matters

Scientists have long puzzled over why oxygen-rich ocean surface waters produce methane, a gas normally made only in oxygen-free environments. The answ...

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How Super Typhoons Form—and Why They Intensify Science

How Super Typhoons Form—and Why They Intensify

Super typhoons are the most powerful storms on Earth, with winds exceeding 150 mph. Here's how they form, why they intensify so rapidly, and what make...

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How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter

Glaciers store about 75% of Earth's freshwater and supply water to nearly two billion people. A small but growing number of countries have passed laws...

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How Global Temperature Records Are Measured and Verified Science

How Global Temperature Records Are Measured and Verified

From weather stations and ocean buoys to satellites and statistical algorithms, tracking Earth's temperature is a complex, multi-layered process invol...

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How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening Science

How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening

Earth's forests, oceans, and soils absorb roughly half of humanity's carbon emissions each year, but climate change and deforestation are steadily und...

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How Chagas Disease Works—and Why It Hides for Decades Health

How Chagas Disease Works—and Why It Hides for Decades

Chagas disease infects roughly 8 million people worldwide and kills more than 10,000 each year, yet most carriers never know they have it. Here's how...

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How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth Science

How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth

Gray whales travel up to 14,000 miles each year between Arctic feeding grounds and Mexican breeding lagoons, navigating by Earth's magnetic field and...

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How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal About Climate Science

How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal About Climate

Ice cores drilled from glaciers and ice sheets preserve up to 1.2 million years of climate history in layers of frozen snow, trapped gas bubbles, and...

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How El Niño Works—and Why Super Events Hit Harder Science

How El Niño Works—and Why Super Events Hit Harder

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern driven by warming waters in the tropical Pacific that reshapes weather worldwide. Here is how the ocean-atmosph...

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