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Power Metal review: The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels
Lithium for batteries being extracted in the Atacama desert, Chile John Moore/Getty Images Power MetalVince Beiser (Wildfire Books…
Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700
Bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice were used to estimate past temperatures aldiami/Andreas Alexander/Alamy Humans have already caused approximately…
Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily
A power substation near a data centre in Virginia Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley’s scramble to…
Stanford Engineers Unveil Game-Changing Electrified Reactor
This image depicts the inductively heated metamaterial reactor with catalysts filling the ceramic foam baffle. It is producing…
Methane leaks from US oil and gas are triple government estimates
A methane plume in California detected by an airborne spectrometer NASA/JPL-Caltech Major oil and gas-producing regions in the…
Satellite launched to track down leaks of potent greenhouse gas
An artist’s impression of MethaneSAT Environmental Defense Fund/NASA A satellite expected to transform our view of planet-warming methane…
Forget what long-lived sea sponges say, focus on reaching net-zero
According to data from Caribbean sponges, the world passed 1.5°C of warming a decade ago, but debating these…
2024 could finally see greenhouse gas emissions start to decline
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels could finally start to fall in 2024 Bilanol/Shutterstock Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions have…
China started drilling ultra-deep holes in 2023 in a hunt for oil
The Shendi Take 1 drilling site in Xinjiang, China, in May 2023 Xinhua/Shutterstock This year, the China National…