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Dozens of people undertake a "funeral march" up a steep Swiss mountainside to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change. The move comes after Iceland made global headlines last month with a large ceremony and the laying of a bronze plaque to commemorate Okjokull, the island's first glacier lost to climate change. IMAGES
Turning carbon dioxide into stone could remove it from the atmosphere permanently, according to scientists working in Iceland. Amy Pollock reports.
Researchers are hailing a potential game-changer for climate change after successfully converting carbon to rock at a geothermal power plant in Iceland.
Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here," UN right chief Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council during the opening its the 54th session in Geneva. Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief added, also decrying widespread "nonchalance" to surging deaths of migrants. SOUNDBITE
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE
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