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energy and fuels

Environment

Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700

Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature before 1700

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PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Features

Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Solar panels on the North Barren Mountain in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China

Environment

Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

Environment

Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

Culture

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

Space

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

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Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

For years, it seemed MDMA-assisted therapy would revolutionise PTSD treatment. But poor trial design and alleged misconduct ultimately stopped the treatment from receiving government approval

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Environment

Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

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Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Comment

Environment

World's largest sailing cargo ship makes first transatlantic voyage

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Environment

Is ultra cheap green hydrogen on the horizon?

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