Environment
The most encouraging climate solutions and green technologies of 2024
Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions
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Environment
Global forecast for 2025 sees temperatures falling back below 1.5°C
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Environment
Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time
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Environment
After another dire year for the environment, here’s to better times
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Physics
Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises
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Society
From enshittocene to virome, science and technology’s words of 2024
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Environment
Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon emissions
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Environment
Extreme heat may rapidly sap the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2
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Space
Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars
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Environment
We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures
A decline in low-lying cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation, which could explain 0.2°C of missing heat scientists have been struggling to account for
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Life
The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
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Earth
What ancient stalagmites can tell us about life on a hotter Earth
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Environment
Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
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Earth
Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters
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