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The forgotten civil engineer with a vision we could all learn from

John "Bud" Benson Wilbur isn't often remembered today, but his ideas about what the distant-future world of 1977 would look like are inspirational, says Annalee Newitz

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What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?

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Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw

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2XMXH3D London, UK. 30th July 2024. UK Weather: Heatwave sunset over St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge ends a warm Tuesday. The UK may have its hottest day of the year so far, as temperatures are expected to top 30C (86F) today. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News

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Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change

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Sunset / sunrise of Silhouette Shanghai skyline of Historical architecture and modern skyscraper on the bund of Shanghai city with Smog lies in misty fog, China

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Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

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We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis

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SALAR DE ATACAMA, CHILE - AUGUST 24: A lithium mine supervisor inspects an evaporation pond of lithium-rich brine in the Atacama Desert on August 24, 2022 in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Albemarle Corporation, based in Charlotte, N.C. is expanding mining operations at their Salar Plant to meet the rising global demand for lithium carbonate, a main component in the manufacture of batteries, increasingly for electric vehicles. To extract the lithium, natural brine is pumped from under the salt flats to a series of evaporation ponds. During an 18-month process, the liquid s moved through 15 ponds, eventually turning from blue to yellow with a lithium concentration of 6 percent. It is then trucked to an Albemarle chemical plant in Antofagasta, where it is processed into battery grade lithium carbonate powder and shipped out internationally. The evaporation process produces large quantities of salt byproduct, much of which is then reprocessed and sold. Chile is the second largest global producer of lithium, after Australia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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

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Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?

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C8FAG5 York Minster, northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England,UK

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Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong

Greening our cities is a good thing, but it has to be done with an eye to the unfolding climate crisis of our times

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Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Potato yarn may cut the fashion industry's environmental footprint

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The 1.5°C target is dead, but climate action needn't be

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