Human Interest

The small island’s energy makeover took less than a decade and was spurred on by local commitment, providing a template for how regional Australia could transition to renewables

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Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

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Experts say humanity’s impact on Earth now so profound that the Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear bomb tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken

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There is basically no such thing as 'untouched' wilderness — and there hasn't been for thousands of years.

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Investment in renewable energy was higher in the world’s poorest countries than the richest ones for the first time last year, according to a major new report. A total of about £196.5bn was spent renewable power and fuels globally in what was a record year for investment in the sector, according to the Renewables 2016 report by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (Ren21). 

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Solar power and clean cars are ‘gamechangers’ consistently underestimated by big energy, says Imperial College and Carbon Tracker report

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The Earth’s ability to absorb greenhouse gases without violently disrupting the climate is finite, and each additional person contributes to the total amount

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Nothing hits the planet as hard as rearing animals. Caring for it means cutting out meat, dairy and eggs

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Radical new technique promises a cheaper and more secure method of burying CO2 emissions underground instead of storing it as a gas

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Flick the switches and see how much of the world would go dark without fossil fuels, who relies the most on nuclear, and where renewables keep the lights on.

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