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• Wind energy: How to build even better wind turbines (2025/04/05 07:54)

  Solar has outpaced wind as the renewable energy leader. But recent innovations, like taller towers and longer rotor blades, could unlock significantly more wind energy potential — though not without challenges.
• Climate observatory with edge over satellites faces DOGE ax (2025/04/04 12:04)

  Scientists fear an "irreplaceable" loss of key climate data as Trump's cost-cutting plans target a key CO2 monitoring site in Hawaii. Why is the Mauna Loa Observatory so important?
• What are nutria, and how could they possibly be a problem? (2025/04/03 13:10)

  This brown, fuzzy critter with its distinctive orange buck teeth may look cute, but it's causing all sorts of trouble — in Germany, and across Europe.
• Scholz: US risks missing economic gains from climate action (2025/03/26 15:45)

  Amid rising geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, climate diplomats are meeting in Berlin to shape the agenda for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
• Lula's climate betrayal? Brazil eyes oil expansion (2025/03/25 10:45)

  Once a climate champion, Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is pushing for more oil drilling, even as the country prepares to host the UN climate conference.
• Keeping homes cool on a warming planet (2025/03/24 14:22)

  Rising temperatures have led to a surge in demand for cooling. But, ironically, the more we rely on energy-intensive air conditioners, the more the planet warms. How can we do things differently?
• How bad is glacier melt and why does it matter? (2025/03/21 01:01)

  The first World Day for Glaciers is less a celebration than a reckoning as years of record, rapid glacier retreat means many will not survive the 21st century.
• What state is the global climate really in? (2025/03/18 23:18)

  As the US administration plays down and question human-caused climate change, new findings paint a very different picture.