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Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud

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Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud

A rush to extract methane from the depths of Africa's Lake Kivu could trigger a huge upwelling of suffocating gas, potentially affecting over 2 million people

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Better world: Generate a feed-in frenzy

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Better world: Generate a feed-in frenzy

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How to short-circuit the US power grid

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How to short-circuit the US power grid

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Circling turbines spell doom for vultures

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Soap bubbles to take the drag out of future cars

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Soap bubbles to take the drag out of future cars

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Bug power makes salt water sweet

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Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share

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Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share

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Green power safer for workers than fossil fuels

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How to turn seawater into jet fuel

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How to turn seawater into jet fuel

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As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up

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As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up

Research ship finds methane bubbling up from the Arctic seabed – probably released from ice that is melting because of the warming climate

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Future trucks: Cleaning up the kings of the road

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Glass leaf 'sweats' to generate electricity

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US vehicle efficiency hardly changed since Model T

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