AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
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US Supreme Court rejects states agreement over Rio grande water distribution
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Iberian lynx no longer endangered after numbers improve in Spain and Portugal
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Sweden's nuclear power goal is challenging but attainable – government wants 2.5 gigawatts of new capacity online by 2035
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EU states push past opposition to adopt landmark nature restoration law
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A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come. The arrival of Brood XIX and Brood XIII will send shockwaves through forest food webs.
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Russia’s war with Ukraine accelerating global climate emergency, report shows
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Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
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Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a troubling trend
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Mining firm Rare Earths Norway says it has discovered Europe's largest proven deposit of highly prized rare earth elements
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Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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Research on Earth’s raging fever of 2023-24 is picking up
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The US Park Service wants to ban all rock climbing in designated wilderness
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat
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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
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The real trap of consumerism
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Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with state of Arizona. It now goes to US Congress.
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A socialist critique of Kohei Saito’s “start from scratch” degrowth communism
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Icelandic volcano located near the famous Blue Lagoon has erupted once again – the fifth such eruption since December
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Illegal tin mining due to smart phone demand tied to deadly crocodile attacks
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Mexico City and Bogotá stare down a ‘Day Zero’ without water
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LA County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms
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Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
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'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
14 votes -
California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Rice has a methane problem that a startup is promising to fix
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Europe's gas supply once again hinges on one company – Equinor now plays an outsized role in the ups and downs of the continent's gas prices
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Canada’s fire season erupts, sending harmful smoke into United States
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What is a keystone species, and why are they so important?
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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Landmark UK study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
17 votes -
New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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At least 147 dead in monumental flood in Brazil. 127 missing.
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Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce
14 votes -
A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
63 votes -
Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US.
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PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly Californian electricity charges
18 votes