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Trump speculates on diesel fuel export ban as high prices ripple across US economy
Diesel fuel powers long-distance trucks, freight locomotives, boats and barges, farm machinery, construction and mining equipment, and backup generators. Its concentrated energy powers efficient engines that can haul heavy loads and refuel machines quickly. Those...
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EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs
The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.It says the changes will make electricity cheaper for Americans. What consumers pay will depend partly on the...
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MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them
Warming temperatures are fueling more extreme weather-related events — catastrophic floods, severe hurricanes and cyclones, and wildfires exacerbated by drought. But the tools used by local communities, emergency and public safety agencies, and insurance and risk markets have not...
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Flood-damaged Nepal wants help from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund – but it’s waiting, along with 118 other countries
As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage – meaning...
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Nepal isn’t the only disaster-struck country waiting for money from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund
As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage – meaning...
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Iran war pushes diesel – the economy’s lifeblood – to record high prices, with no relief on the horizon
Diesel fuel prices in the U.S. continue to break all-time records, hitting $6.28 a gallon as a national average on Sept. 14, 2026, and they aren’t likely to come down anytime soon. Because diesel is...
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At an old steel site in Pittsburgh, bacteria evolved to survive – and eat – industrial pollution
Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.But another transformation has been taking place beneath...
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Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund
Nepal plans to use a new study linking climate change to the deadly floods last month as the basis of a financial request from a United Nations fund.The BBC understands that Nepal hopes to claim around $20m (£15m) from...
Environment
Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
The human brain is made up of billions of cells, interconnected in millions of circuits, making it difficult to understand its development and what exactly is happening – at the cellular level - when things go wrong.While this research...
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Third Heathrow runway should only go ahead if airlines pay for cleaner flying, say advisers
Heathrow's third runway cannot be approved without changes to current climate policies, the government's advisers have said.The Climate Change Committee (CCC) , externalsaid expansion can still go ahead but only if the aviation industry funds cleaner fuels and...
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They were labelled ‘pervert glasses’. Will a camera-free version transform their image?
And other companies are trying to address privacy concerns in different ways - without getting rid of the camera.The...
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