How “grid-forming inverters” are paving the way for 100% renewable energy
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Finns trying to enjoy beaches and parks during their all-too-brief summers have been vexed by legions of geese and their droppings – the smelly mess has resisted even the most innovative solutions
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Sweden to build more nuclear plants with US or UK technology – Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce's small modular reactors
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Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
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Norway eyes 200-250 MW floating nuclear reactors to power industry and cut emissions – expected to supply electricity to nearby offshore platforms and feed power into the onshore grid
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Norway's Northern Lights project is seen as a model for efforts to pump carbon dioxide deep into wells, but high costs remain an obstacle
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California farmers are installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water
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Less rain, more wheat: How Australian farmers defied climate doom
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Norwegian town of Ulefoss sits on top of a rare earth deposit – the reserves could help to reduce the EU's dependency on China for the elements needed in tech such as phones
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Norway wants to be Europe's carbon dump – aiming to capture carbon dioxide from factories and bury it beneath the North Sea
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Breaking up cybercrime gangs is helping save the planet, incredibly
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Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think
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'I can't drink the water' - Life next to a US data centre
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China's emissions may now be falling
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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Finnish startup Polar Night Energy has announced its industrial-scale sand battery, the world's largest of its kind, is now operational
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Black paint on wind turbines sharply reduces bird death but there are issues
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Meta signs twenty-year nuclear energy deal with Constellation Energy
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Citing illegal pollution US racial justice nonprofit NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Elon Musk's supercomputer in Memphis
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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Aikido Technologies, a floating offshore wind technology provider, has signed an agreement in Norway to deploy the largest floating wind platform constructed to date
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to recycle all my tech waste
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xAI is running generators without pollution controls in Memphis
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Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring
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Eight of the top ten online shows are spreading climate misinformation
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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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How dairy robots are changing work for cows (and farmers)
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Underwater ‘doorbell’ helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida
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Carved into rock beneath the Swedish city of Västerås, a huge man-made cave system is being used to heat local housing
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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Small German town starts testing geothermal power utilizing techniques developed by oil and gas industry
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As global leaders, Canada and Norway's co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand
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Decommissioned wind turbine blades recycled into asphalt for new roads in China
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Using 3D surface maps, scientists led by Durham University, found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth on Greenland's ice sheet over the five years between 2016 and 2021
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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Joint venture between Germany's Uniper and Blykalla has started work on a test reactor in Sweden – latest sign nation's nuclear renaissance is gathering pace
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How Watch Duty app became crucial for tracking the Los Angeles wildfires
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Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction – drop in decibels is welcome side-effect of goal to keep city-managed construction projects free from toxic emissions
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These nearly silent wind turbines have owl-inspired ‘feathers’
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Japanese railway operator testing perovskite solar panels on noise barriers
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Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
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Sionic Energy unveils 100% silicon anode battery with high energy density
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Goodbye refrigerants, hello magnets: Scientists develop cleaner, greener heat pump
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Google says AI weather model masters fifteen-day forecast
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The solar-panel backlash is here
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Putting numbers on projected increased energy demand from data centers
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Chinese pebble-bed reactor passes “meltdown” test
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Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore.
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How solid state cooling could change everything
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