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Steel manufacturing is a critical industry, creating the building blocks for so much of the world. But the steel industry also comes with considerable impacts, producing as much as seven percent of global CO2 emissions, thereby contributing significantly to global climate change. SSAB has found a cleaner way to produce steel without fossil fuels and massive carbon emissions. The byproduct of its process: water.
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'We were being bullied in our own home': How 'authoritarian' HOAs are contributing to the insect apocalypseExcerpt In the book "Bitter Honey," writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees — and what can be done to stop them.
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Bronze Age 5-year-old's skull found in Uzbekistan is the oldest known evidence of surgery in Central AsiaA child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in Central Asia on record.
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Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer.Opinion Trump's war in Iran is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with our dependence on fossil fuels — and it's highlighting just how vital the transition to renewables is.
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Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest sourceIn a new analysis, researchers estimated direct, indirect and future greenhouse gas emissions that were created in the first two weeks of the Iran war, between Feb. 28 and March 14.
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The world is being held hostage by its reliance on oil. How can we break free from the fossil fuel?Like whale blubber, oil as a dominant source of energy will gradually be phased out over the next decades. Here's what that transition may look like.
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Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and likely to accelerate in coming decadesOcean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find.
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Greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than CO2 is rising in the atmosphere — and fastHuman activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere, and our efforts to staunch the flow are not yet bearing fruit.
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Is Earth really getting too hot for people to survive?To assess risk from heat, scientists use the "wet bulb temperature," looking at the point where the human body isn't able to let enough heat out.
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We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice ageMethane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as when Earth's climate has flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.
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Watch the world choke on CO2 in eerie NASA videos of manmade emissionsThe animations highlight emissions from different human and natural sources, with the main contribution coming from the burning of fossil fuels.
