Lifestyle
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Why bigger EVs aren’t always better
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AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.
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Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know.
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Why EV charging needs more than Tesla
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How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat
Fixing our collective meat problem is one of the trickiest challenges in addressing climate change—and for some baffling reason, the world seems...
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Three takeaways about the current state of batteries
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A US push to use ethanol as aviation fuel raises major climate concerns
Eliminating carbon pollution from aviation is one of the most challenging parts of the climate puzzle, simply because large commercial airlines...
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Want less mining? Switch to clean energy.
Political fights over mining and minerals are heating up, and there are growing environmental and sociological concerns about how to source the...
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Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be.
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How we transform to a fully decarbonized world
In 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from one of the most precious metals known at the time: light,...
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Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguided
The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering the climate system is heating up, as the dangers of climate instability...
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These artificial snowdrifts protect seal pups from climate change
Just before 10 a.m., hydrobiologist Jari Ilmonen and his team of six step out across a flat, half-mile-wide disk of snow and ice. For half the...