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Barcelona wants to turn a random street into a climate laboratory by 2027 using asphalt made from olive pits and pine waste, which could reduce CO2 emissions fro…

Barcelona is getting ready to test an unusual climate idea under people’s feet. The city has selected a street-paving project ...
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Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test ...

Yaguara, a female jaguar rescued after Bolivia’s 2024 wildfires, is back in the forest. After almost two years of rehabilitation with no direct human contact, she was released inside Noel Kempff ...
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Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

Canada begins building the first grid scale SMR in a G7 nation, using a massive buried foundation and a reactor designed to ...
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Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a chang…

Renters in Australia are secretly using plug-in batteries as demand for cheap solar power outpaces safety rules and ...
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While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intellige…

Wind turbines were built to make electricity, but engineers now say their towers could do something far more unexpected. A ...
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Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that al…

A Rio beach once known for polluted water is now attracting swimmers again as cleanup efforts begin to show results.
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It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seco…

Scientists turn wet coffee waste into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds using a high-temperature plasma process.
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A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen a…

A small town in western Spain has turned a big energy idea into a working plant. In Miajadas, in the Extremadura region, ...
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The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-ho…

If Morgan Stanley’s scenario plays out, the biggest shock may hit the materials market. The bank says sodium-ion batteries ...
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According to a new scientific proposal, NASA may need a kind of “biological customs checkpoint” on the Moon before bringing samples from Mars or distant worlds bac…

Scientists suggest the Moon could act as a quarantine checkpoint before samples from Mars are brought back to Earth.
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China’s massive “electric island” has no blades and doesn’t look like a windmill, but it transmits 1.1 gigawatts of offshore wind power from the Yellow Sea to the power ...

It does not look like the wind turbines most people picture when they think about clean power. Still, China’s Rudong offshore ...