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Is Champagne’s Bubble About to Burst?

30.03.2025 80

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Lara Williams

Preventing the North Sea Collision From Echoing Deepwater

Preventing the North Sea Collision From Echoing Deepwater
14.03.2025 20

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Labour Could Save Its Green Reputation, But Will It?

04.02.2025 9

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I Don't Envy the UK Climate Change Chief’s Job

29.01.2025 8

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Donald Trump Isn't the Biggest Threat Facing Greenland

Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where climate change is sometimes referred to as an opportunity by making it potentially more productive...

22.01.2025 7

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In Trump’s Fantasy World, Fish Set Fire to Los Angeles

In what’s becoming a somewhat commonplace event, we’ve been inundated with apocalyptic images this week, currently emanating from Los Angeles....

11.01.2025 10

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Why Are My Vegan Friends Going Back to Meat?

For many, the real meaning of Christmas lies in sharing meals with family and friends. These feasts are often extravagant in style or size (or...

28.12.2024 5

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Labour Shoots for the Moon on Clean Energy. Finally.

Christmas came early for energy nerds with the arrival of a dense 136-page document detailing how the UK government plans to decarbonize the...

18.12.2024 6

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No, Sanitizing Cow Burps Won’t Sour Your Milk or Contaminate Your Cheese

It perhaps shouldn’t have been a surprise when news of a project to tackle methane emissions by the dairy industry led to a wave of misinformation...

06.12.2024 4

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What Cities Can Teach About Weathering Storms

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by bad weather in the last year or so. Was your travel disrupted? Did your home get unbearably...

03.12.2024 4

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Big Oil Shouldn't Celebrate Shell's Dutch Court Win

At first glance, Shell Plc’s successful appeal against a landmark judgment by a Dutch court looks like a blow to those wishing to advance corporate...

14.11.2024 8

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Hacking the Planet Needs Guardrails and Guidelines

A few years ago, solar geoengineering was considered a sort of science fiction. These days, it’s fast becoming a reality. Without international...

31.10.2024 10

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How to End the Tug-of-War Over Carbon Capture

At the end of September, the UK was being cheered and celebrated for becoming the first G-7 nation to fully ditch coal-fired electricity. Just a...

10.10.2024 7

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Geoengineering Can Save the Planet — If We Demystify It

Despite what it may look like on X, a majority of US adults trust what scientists say about the environment. That trust, however, may be shaky....

09.10.2024 9

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Your Olive Oil Might Be Unfit for Human Consumption

You can think of your grocery bill partly as an embodiment of a number of extreme weather events around the world, from sogflation as potato...

27.09.2024 20

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Yes, Bats Carry Disease. They Also Make Us Healthier.

From ticks and mosquitoes to pangolins and raccoon dogs (two species accused of being the animal origin of Covid-19), the conversation around...

16.09.2024 8

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The UK’s Wind Goal Looks Increasingly Like a Moonshot

Offshore turbines are enjoying a renewed tailwind in the UK. But will they be enough for the country to reach its 2030 wind power checkpoint? The...

06.09.2024 10

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Suriname Wants to Get Paid

Suriname is a tiny country in South America, with fewer than 650,000 people in an area just slightly bigger than the US state of Georgia. But it’s...

04.09.2024 10

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All the Ways Heat Harms Is Terrible for Your Health

When it comes to measuring the impacts of the climate crisis, we tend to fall upon two simple metrics: human fatalities and economic losses. These...

29.08.2024 10

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Labour Trips on the Aviation Runway

Since winning the UK general election in July, the Labour government has taken some strong early steps to push forward climate action, such as...

22.08.2024 3

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Why Ticks Are Becoming an Even Bigger Danger

As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, I’ve come across my fair share of natural hazards: lightning, poisonous snakes, unstable terrain....

16.08.2024 10

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We Gorged On Olympics Sports Tapas. Who Pays the Check?

I’m Lara Williams and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a modern pentathlon of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major...

12.08.2024 3

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Lil Nas X Should Be Celebrated — Not Shamed — for Flying Commercial

At this point in the climate crisis, we need everyone to start making planet-friendly choices. So why have we started shaming celebrities for...

08.08.2024 30

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Why Wolves and Bears Are Big Political Issues in Europe

There’s nothing like a comeback story. One of the most notable has taken place across Europe, with the return of two creatures that had been pushed...

02.08.2024 2

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The UK Paves Paradise and Puts Up Parking Lots

One of the challenges with the climate crisis is that our actions — taking a flight abroad or eating a beef burger, for example — can feel...

29.07.2024 3

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Our Days Are Getting Longer as the Polar Ice Caps Melt

What would you do with extra time in the day? Squeeze in that workout? Finally dust your living room? Maybe, like me, you’d simply opt to get some...

19.07.2024 2

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UK Offshore Wind Power’s Potential Needs Labour’s Love, Too

A mere 72 hours into the new Labour government, the nine-year de facto ban on onshore wind in England was lifted with the swift deletion of two...

15.07.2024 2

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