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Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high

An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this year

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Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700

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PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Solar panels on the North Barren Mountain in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China

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Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

Environment

Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

Culture

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

Space

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

The Euclid space telescope's massive “cosmic atlas” promises to shed light on fundamental questions in physics and cosmology

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Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

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Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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World's largest sailing cargo ship makes first transatlantic voyage

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