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energy

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

Cuadrilla is pressing ahead with a project to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, but a geologist thinks plans for industrial-scale fracking may be doomed

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Refuelling hydrogen vehicle

Technology

Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water

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wind farm

Technology

The renewables reality: clean energy hasn't risen for 25 years

Insight

Waves in water

Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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explosion in desert

Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

Features

Oil rig

Earth

California climate case turns up the heat on fossil fuel giants

Comment

plastic bottles

Earth

Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling

Features

Volvo XC90 SUV

Technology

Hailing e-Volvos as imminent saviours of the planet is nonsense

Comment

A bus being filled with biofuel

Earth

Use waste rather than crops for biofuels, says UK report

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Solar panels

Earth

Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently

A new material that hides the metal grid on top of solar panels make them 9 per cent more efficient in lab tests

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Space

Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony

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Earth

It's time we all burst our carbon bubbles

Leader

Technology

The spongy fuel that's made from trees

Regulars

Earth

Open the floodgates: Designer deluges could save dammed rivers

Features

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