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Renewable energy

Midgley

Technology

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

From poisonous cars to the destruction of the ozone layer, Thomas Midgley almost single-handedly invented a global environmental crisis, finds Fred Pearce

Features

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Earth

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Comment

Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

Earth

Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

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power plant picture

Physics

What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power

Insight

wind blown tree

Earth

Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

Features

Is coal really on its way out?

Earth

UK government subsidises coal sector with £356 million a year

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smog over the city

Earth

Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse?

Features

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Earth

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Features

A woman wearing a face mask to filter out polluted air

Earth

Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake

Features

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

Earth

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

Tackling our air problems starts with traffic control, but individual action to reduce energy use and intensive farming would also help clean our air

Features

Earth

It’s not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians

Analysis

Life

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

Features

Physics

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

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Earth

Record amounts of renewable energy added to the mix in 2016

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