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The real risk is from sudden storms – but there are ways to limit the damage, if cities start planning now.
Information overload?
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Information is assumed to be key to changing people’s attitudes and behaviour. Sadly this isn’t the case.
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Even Trump’s most destructive proposals pale in comparison. The president is merely throwing a match on a burning building.
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The main source of global warming isn’t baking or transport, but fertiliser used to grow wheat.
The end was nigh.
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Their days were numbered for quite some time …
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The development of alternative airline fuels needs serious support from national governments if we are going to see greener skies overhead any time soon.
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The country’s ambitious plans for sustainable transport and renewable energy must work in sync.
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We’re more likely to remember a storm with a human face – and will prepare for it.
Lada Niva: still going strong.
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The Lada Niva is 40 years old – and it could just be the best 4x4 ever made.
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‘Acoustic monitoring’ can help us protect animals and their habitats.
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The Smarden incident and the arrival of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the UK lead people to a new view of the environment.
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We need international agreement on a set of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ and how to measure them.
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For a small price, Donald Trump could score the easy win he’s been waiting for.
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More than 400 whales have died on a beach in New Zealand.
When the chips are down.
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What’s the answer? Fight or flight?
A trench amphipod, Hirondellea gigas , from the deepest place on Earth: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,890m).
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But should we care if the extreme marine frontier is not clean?
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Park rangers, local people and conservationists need to find some common ground.
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We should be building wildlife bridges on the US-Mexico border – not walls.
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Wireless charging means these cars could run off much smaller and cheaper batteries.
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Republicans have decided to deliberately give a green light to secret and potentially corrupt deals abroad.
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It’s time for governments to think long-term about the kind of places they want to create.
The highly valuable element has been found on the Cornish coast.
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New lithium stores in Cornwall could give the UK a valuable domestic supply of the expensive commodity.
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Other EU members don’t want a neighbour that ignores air quality standards.
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Are they really the animal kingdom’s very own Nostradamus?
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Euratom is responsible for nuclear non-proliferation, safety, and research.