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- Energy
Posted on: 2025-12-02
Are grid battery storage systems fire-prone? Early data suggests their fires are rare

Grid batteries can catch fire, but these fires are becoming less common as more grid batteries are built.
- Energy
Posted on: 2024-10-28
Environmental impacts of the fossil fuel industry outweigh those of EV metal mining, experts say

Nearly one in five new vehicles sold around the world in 2023 was an electric vehicle (EV), up from around…

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- Climate
Posted on: 2025-09-15
Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard

Wine grapes can only be grown in specific conditions – climate change is affecting which regions are suitable, and some current regions will likely be lost.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-06-27
Cutting emissions today limits future climate impacts, but certain changes are ‘locked in’ due to past CO2 emissions

Sea levels will rise this century and remain elevated for thousands of years due to our past emissions. Ice sheets, glaciers, and ocean temperatures will also face irreversible changes.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-05-28
Human-driven climate change largely responsible for last 50 years of worsening fire weather in Western North America, new study shows

Fire weather has been worsened by human-driven climate change in Western North America for 50 years, new study finds. Recent paper suggests that human-driven climate change contributed 81-188% to the observed increase in fire weather in that region.