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Humidity makes Shanghai’s heat even more unbearablelukyeee1976/Getty Images “My office was like a steamship on Monday morning,” Chinese influencer Bi Dao wrote in a social media…

Mr. Zeldin, a 44-year-old lawyer and former Army lieutenant, has no experience in environmental policy. He entered politics in 2011 through the New York State Senate,…

Lithium for batteries is mined in Chile’s Atacama DesertJohn Moore/Getty Images power metalvince visor (Wildfire Books (UK, November 20th); Riverhead Books (US, November 19th)) The smartphone…

Coal-fired power plants and wind turbines coexist rather than replace each other in Germany’s WestphaliaMauritius Images GmbH / Alamy More, more, moreJean-Baptiste Freso (Allen Lane) The…

On Monday, the UK saw the closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last working coal-fired power station that had been in operation since 1968. The closure of the…

These changes are real and so significant that it is no wonder that some of the lawmakers Westlake interviewed said they were more interested in reducing…

For example, two years’ worth of snow and extreme heat posed a flood risk in 2023. State officials decided to release water from Lake Oroville and…

again The second WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit, taking place in Berlin this October, will bring together Europe’s leading experts and visionaries in the green…

That’s why government support like the Department of Energy’s Regional DAC Hubs program is so important, says Jack Andreasen of Breakthrough Energy, an initiative founded by…

Freshwater is Water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet contains about 6.5 percent of the world’s freshwater, and…