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Tropical Cyclone Freddy Has Lasted More Than a Month, Potentially Setting New Record
Almost 200 people are dead and tens of thousands affected in Southern Africa after a tropical cyclone, which at 34 days could be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, hit a second time in the course of a few weeks, following a first landfall in February. It’s officially the most energetic storm on record.
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For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles — more than 2.2 million tons — floating in the world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…
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How to Make Carbon Capture Way More Efficient
Scientists agree that we’re going to need to build machines to suck carbon from the sky to stave off the worst impacts of climate change — but there are a lot of challenges for this new industry in the coming decades, including figuring out how to make the technology more effective. A discovery from a…
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Western Cities Vote to Keep U.S. Nuclear Dream Alive (For Now)
A group of cities in the Western U.S. have voted to move ahead with a new nuclear project that could help revolutionise how clean power is generated in this country — despite sharply rising costs for the project.