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Environment

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

In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that tackling climate change means rethinking our history of energy consumption – and exposing the green transition as a fiction

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?

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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?

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Environment

Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

High-temperature superconducting cables that could transform the power grid may be increasingly viable, thanks to a side effect of fusion energy research and new ways to cool the wires

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Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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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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Environment

Can solar panels designed for space boost clean energy on Earth?

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