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Large heath butterflies are ‘canary in coal mine for climate change’
Could counting endangered large heath butterflies be used as an indicator of peatland health?
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A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global...
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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
A few years ago, I took a zombie test. I had flown to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit neuroscientist Giulio...
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Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement
The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best to manage the river’s water as its supply dwindles due to climate change and a period of...
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Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth
Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls globally. Even...
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Pittsburgh’s air pollution estimated to claim 3,000+ lives per year − and EPA rollbacks aren’t helping
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc...
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Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe
If you gently fold a disc made of some flexible and possibly tasty material, what makes it stay folded?...
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Will war in the Middle East accelerate the clean energy transition?
Despite Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on climate action, the “drill, baby, drill” president has given the green revolution a...
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Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights
A trial involving thousands of flights between the US and Europe has found that planes produce fewer contrails if...
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Sydney kidnapping: ‘Major player’ in alleged mistaken identity abduction of grandfather charged
The 23-year-old is the third man to be charged in connection with the death of Chris Baghsarian.
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