Climate-change-and-energy Articles

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December 26, 2025

The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place

It’s getting harder to beat the heat. During the summer of 2025, heat waves knocked out power grids in North America, Europe, and the Middle East....

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December 22, 2025

Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still. Ash from nearby Mount...

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December 17, 2025

This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough, his parents tasked him with one of...

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December 10, 2025

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change - for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations will...

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December 04, 2025

Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter

As many of us are ramping up with shopping, baking, and planning for the holiday season, nuclear power plants are also getting ready for one of their...

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November 10, 2025

The State of AI: Energy is king, and the US is falling behind

Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both...

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November 03, 2025

This startup wants to clean up the copper industry

Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, Still Bright, think they have a...

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October 30, 2025

What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)

On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen...

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October 30, 2025

Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory

It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract...

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October 23, 2025

This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a zero-carbon fuel

The crushed-up soda can disappears in a cloud of steam and - though it’s not visible - hydrogen gas. “I can just keep this reaction going by adding...

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October 16, 2025

Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim in air freight

Used in aviation, book and claim offers companies the ability to financially support the use of SAF even when it is not physically available at their...

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October 07, 2025

This company is planning a lithium empire from the shores of the Great Salt Lake

BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah - On a bright afternoon in August, the shore on the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake looks like something out of a science...

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