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Australia hoped to dodge wildfires. El Nino has other plans.

The declaration of El Nino conditions in the middle of a spring heatwave is the sort of news that can cause dread in Australia. The climate cycle...

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The Fukushima hysteria has a lesson for the nuclear renaissance

Japan has begun discharging contaminated waste water from the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. Ans from the reaction prior to the release...

24.08.2023 100

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Natural hydrogen could change the world, if we understood it

A village in the arid savannah of west Africa seems an unlikely place to mark the birth of an energy revolution. But If promoters of the next big...

04.08.2023 80

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Our civilization was built for a climate that’s vanishing

Bloomberg – You can learn a lot about the climates we live in by the buildings we construct. The steep roofs of Thai temples and Norwegian stave...

21.07.2023 30

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Shipping needs nuclear power to solve its emissions problem

One of the last bastions of industry where carbon emissions go largely unregulated may be about to fall. Shipping — which consumes about 5% of the...

10.07.2023 90

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What a smoky U.S. can learn from past climate denialism in Australia

If you were looking for a silver lining in the cloud of smoke that’s descended on New York in recent weeks as wildfires raged through Canada’s...

16.06.2023 100

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Just how safe is Fukushima’s ‘contaminated’ water?

More than 12 years after the disaster that closed Japan’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the country will soon dispose of one of the most...

31.05.2023 100

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Why natural disasters seem worse than our most dire predictions

Just recently, the coast of Myanmar was hit by one of the strongest cyclones ever seen in the northern Indian Ocean. A record heatwave spread across...

19.05.2023 10

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A torrid summer risks stalling Asia’s climate goals

What if climate change itself provided a lifeline to fossil fuels? That’s what’s shaping up to happen in Asia this summer. The continent’s...

16.05.2023 20

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OPEC+’s shock production cut is a capitulation to oil’s decline

What does it look like when the world’s biggest oil producers capitulate to the decline of their key product? We’re seeing it today. The surprise...

04.04.2023 20

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Peak emissions are just the start of the climate battle

Did we just win? It’s certainly sounding that way. Emissions from fossil fuels — the key driver of global warming since the dawn of the industrial...

03.03.2023 10

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We’re not even close to running out of green minerals

For those betting against the world’s ability to kick its carbon addiction, the commodities boom of the past few years has provided fresh...

14.02.2023 20

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Shipping’s oil era is coming to an end

For a century, the world’s oceangoing fleet has been powered by crude. The 50,000 ships plowing the high seas consume more than 5 million barrels...

25.12.2022 20

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