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Read New Scientist’s five best long reads of 2023 for free

As the year draws to an end, our editors have selected five of the most terrific features from the past 12 months. As a festive treat for you, they are all free to read until 1 January

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Read New Scientist’s five best long reads of 2023 for free

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Will global warming continue even after we hit net-zero emissions?

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Extreme heat: Inside the expedition to find out how humans can adapt

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Saudi Arabian desert extreme heat experiment
A huge chunk of glacier ice collapsing and falling into the sea

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Scientists 'shocked' by extreme events in Antarctica as Earth heats up

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The flowering shrub Tidestromia oblongifolia can still photosynthesize in 50°C conditions

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Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation

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Shortage of male turtles could be solved by splash of cold seawater

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Melting Arctic glaciers expose new sources of planet-warming methane

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Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

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The uncomfortable reality of life on Earth after we breach 1.5°C

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Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

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Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

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Launching a huge dust cloud from the moon could ease global warming

Launching a million tonnes of moon dust around Earth could dim sunlight across our planet by 1.8 per cent. This would reduce the global temperature, but whether it would be worth the resources, and the risks involved in such a strategy, are unclear

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"1.5 degrees" displayed on the Eiffel Tower

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The first breach of 1.5°C will be a temporary but devastating failure

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2022 Tonga eruption means we may hit 1.5°C of global warming earlier

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Protesters hold placards during a "Look up" march, to call on the presidential candidates to take into account the climate emergency, which protesters say is largely absent from the election campaign, less than two weeks after a warning from UN climate experts and a month before the presidential election, in Paris on March 12, 2022. - According to the organisers, nearly 150 marches are expected to take place across France, supported by NGOs, associations or other groups. The protests are dubbed "Look up" in reference to the film "Don't look up", a metaphor for the climate crisis that has been a hit on Netflix. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)

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2022: The year of rolling polycrisis, but with a few glimmers of hope

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13007378a) A cow grazes on the dried-up bed of a natural pond on a hot summer day, amid the ongoing heatwave in New Delhi, India on June 27, 2022. The intense and prolonged heatwave has damaged the wheat crop, and made conditions for people who work outside very difficult. Climate scientists say the prolonged heatwave is undoubtedly the result of global heating. INDIA-WEATHER-HEAT, New Delhi - 27 Jun 2022

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Most days could be dangerously hot for 5 billion people by 2100

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