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Pakistan’s Secret Weapon Can Help It Rebuild After Floods

Pakistan’s Secret Weapon Can Help It Rebuild After Floods
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Tesla-Killer Batteries Don’t Belong With BYD

Tesla-Killer Batteries Don’t Belong With BYD
04.09.2025 20

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America’s Wind Crusade Hands an Industry to China

America’s Wind Crusade Hands an Industry to China
03.09.2025 10

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A Porsche at Camry Prices Shouldn’t Scare Europe

A Porsche at Camry Prices Shouldn’t Scare Europe
26.08.2025 6

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A Ban on Soy Sauce Fish? It’s Not Such a Bad Idea

A Ban on Soy Sauce Fish? It’s Not Such a Bad Idea
20.08.2025 4

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Heatwaves and Jellyfish Are Causing the Grid to Wilt

15.08.2025 4

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Saudi Arabia Is Losing Its Appetite for Oil

14.08.2025 8

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Bitcoin Devours the Electricity Meant for the World’s Poor

31.07.2025 10

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Brad Pitt Has a Lesson for Formula 1’s Green Makeover

30.07.2025 5

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America Is Slipping Behind India’s Clean Power Boom

28.07.2025 3

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Ocean Mining Ban Isn’t Necessarily Good

23.07.2025 3

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A Looming Dairy Drought Will Stunt the World’s Growth

21.07.2025 10

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The World’s Biggest Polluter Is Cleaning Up Its Act

04.07.2025 2

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How Pakistan Is Crowdfunding an Energy Revolution

30.06.2025 10

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An EV Revolution Is Happening in the Heart of OPEC

18.06.2025 3

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Chips Won the Cold War. Rare Earths May Win the Next

16.06.2025 4

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Australia Is the Future of Gas, and Always Will Be

03.06.2025 10

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The Mojave Desert Is Key in the Rare Earths Fight

22.05.2025 5

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China’s Building Crash Is Rewinding 22 Years of Growth

21.05.2025 8

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Why India and Pakistan Won’t Go to War Over Water

09.05.2025 10

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How Nuclear Sites Escaped Australia’s Election Landslide

06.05.2025 5

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Silicon Valley’s Hype Cycle Is Taking Off in China

01.05.2025 6

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The Climate Cost of America’s Infinite Tariffs

25.04.2025 10

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How Clean Energy Escaped the Boom-and-Bust Cycle

23.04.2025 4

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We May Have Already Hit Peak Booze

21.04.2025 5

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China Has Already Trade-War-Proofed Its Economy

06.04.2025 10

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Trump’s 25% Tariff Hands the Car Industry Keys to China

28.03.2025 10

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The Strawberry’s Unstoppable Rise Should Worry Us

24.03.2025 20

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Billionaire’s Private Jet Angst Won’t Save the World

20.03.2025 8

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America Will Lose If the EU and China Become Energy Buddies

19.03.2025 5

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How to Spend $19 Billion With Blood on the Streets

14.03.2025 20

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Honda Could Get BYD-ed in Key Scooter Market

06.03.2025 8

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EV-Killer Cobalt Has Backfired, Wile E. Coyote-Style

27.02.2025 40

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America’s $412 Billion Green Bank Was Gutted Years Ago

18.02.2025 20

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The Hot Money in Commodities Is Betting on the Tropics

10.02.2025 60

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Greenland’s Icebergs Can’t Quench the Planet’s Thirst

27.01.2025 20

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China’s Oil Demand Is Vanishing Faster Than It Looks

Is China still the best justification for ongoing crude demand, or the worst? While most of the world remains fixated on the slow-motion car crash in...

21.01.2025 5

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The US Could Learn From First Nations Firefighters

The devastation from California’s wildfires is unique in its horror — but it has precedents elsewhere in the world. And some time-honored...

16.01.2025 20

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The Hollywood Fires Will Cause Harm Long After They Burn Out

What could be more terrifying than a wall of flame sweeping through the suburbs of Los Angeles? The stealthy cloud of pollution seeping into...

13.01.2025 20

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Tesla and Waymo Should Learn From 2024’s Air Crashes

If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like...

07.01.2025 7

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The Climate Scorecard Is Looking Bleak in 2025

We’re now almost halfway through a decade where the world needs to drastically cut carbon emissions if we’re to avoid damaging global warming. The...

01.01.2025 10

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The World’s Biggest Dam Is the Last Thing China Needs

If you’re worried about China’s insatiable appetite for coal and its role in the relentless heating of our planet, you might see the building of...

31.12.2024 10

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Here’s the Best Climate News You Missed This Year

Those who follow the energy transition seem perpetually pitched between elation and despair. For every fragment of positive news — surging Chinese...

25.12.2024 5

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The Year’s Worst Climate News You Haven’t Heard About

There’s been no shortage of grim climate news to hit the headlines over the past year. In March, the United Nations’ weather agency declared 2023...

23.12.2024 4

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Sea Turtles Aren’t Vanishing. In Fact They’re Thriving

It’s hard to forget your first glimpse of a turtle in its natural environment. In my case, it happened about 15 years ago, on a cay in Australia’s...

20.12.2024 10

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Green Christmas Stocking Stuffers Aren’t So Sustainable

How do the ecologically-minded make it through the annual festive orgy of frivolous consumerism? Nearly a fifth of non-automotive US retail...

14.12.2024 9

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An OPEC for Solar Power Isn’t Going to Work

What do you do in an energy industry that’s facing its first speed bumps after decades of meteoric growth? In the case of oil, the answer in 1960...

12.12.2024 10

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GM Is on a Road to Nowhere in China

Getting a stay of execution doesn’t mean you’re no longer on death row. That’s the situation that General Motors Co.’s Chinese joint venture finds...

05.12.2024 10

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Can’t Take the Heat Wave? Then Build, Baby, Build

Much of the world might be hunkering down for the start of winter, but in the Southern Hemisphere a blistering summer is building. In my hometown...

02.12.2024 6

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Clean Power Must Offer More Hope to Beat Fossil Fuels

You can regard the depressing denouement of the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the US...

25.11.2024 6

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