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Part of the Guadiana river has dried up and gives way to dry land under the Puente de la Mesta medieval bridge in Villarta de los Montes, in the central-western Spanish region of Extremadura, on August 16, 2022. - Temperatures in Spain have been very high this summer with several unusual heat waves. 51¶¯Âþs say human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events including heatwaves and droughts more frequent and more intense. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Extreme drought in 2022 exposed fragility of Europe’s energy system

The past year saw temperature records fall and severe drought in many parts of the world – and it exposed how easily extreme weather can threaten Europe’s energy system

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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National Ignition Facility

Physics

Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Humans

Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Culture

TOKA robot checking a missile silo

Technology

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

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Sections of a timber wind turbine tower under construction

Environment

Should we build wind turbines from wood?

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plan

Technology

Ukraine's nuclear plants face uncertain future after Russian attacks

Analysis

Gas emerging from the sea

Society

Nord Stream gas pipe explosions were sabotage, say investigators

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Laptop screens showing various website

Technology

Online adverts estimated to use as much energy as a small country

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National Ignition Facility

Physics

Nuclear fusion reactions create unexpectedly high-energy particles

Burning plasma fusion reactions, which have only recently been created, are producing higher-energy particles than researchers expected

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Environment

Global fossil fuel emissions set to rise by 1 per cent in 2022

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Environment

Does the UK need new nuclear plants like Sizewell C to reach net zero?

Analysis

Environment

Dismissing environmentalists with an 'anti-growth' label is wrong

Comment

Environment

Fossil fuel demand expected to peak within 15 years

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