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Coal-fired power station

Environment

China is building more than half of the world's new coal power plants

Some 176 gigawatts of coal capacity was under construction in 2021, and more than half of that was being built in China

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Boston - March 6: People hold a banner reading Stand with Ukraine! Stop buying Russian oil as they take part in a Peace March for Ukraine from Copley Square to Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common in Boston on March 6, 2022. The protests marked the second straight Sunday people have marched through Boston, as Russias invasion of its neighbor entered its 11th day. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Environment

How the war in Ukraine will change the way the world uses energy

Insight

Esperanza Station on Hope Bay is located on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and at the opening of the Antarctic Sound.

Environment

Research stations and tourists are hastening snow melt in Antarctica

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A crane lifts a weight for energy storage

Environment

Fix the Planet newsletter: The weird and wonderful rivals to batteries

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Fix the Planet newsletter: The tide is turning for sea power

Environment

Fix the Planet newsletter: The tide is turning for sea power

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Uranium, a chemical element with a U symbol and an atomic mass equal to 238 u, has an atomic number 92

Technology

Material inspired by blood vessels can extract uranium from seawater

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An aerial view at Ffos-y-Fran opencast coalmine

Environment

COP26: Countries promise coal phase-out and end to fossil fuel finance

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Coal mine

Environment

Global fossil fuel extraction plans are double what we can safely burn

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Gas flaring at an oil refinery

Environment

58 per cent of oil must stay in the ground to meet 1.5°C climate goal

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Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow global warming

Environment

Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow global warming

Regenerating natural systems will draw carbon out of the atmosphere and help tackle climate change. We must recarbonise Earth now, says Jonathon Porritt

Comment

Environment

How to understand world energy use – in 10 graphs

Features

Environment

How the fossil fuel era ends – and four possibilities for what follows

Features

Environment

How we can transform our energy system to achieve net-zero emissions

Features

Definition

Fracking

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