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The great COVID-tech tick exploit

Hackers and gamers don't need to read the rest of this article because the headline says it all. Everybody else, keep reading. An "exploit" is a weakness, flaw, or hidden characteristic in a system that can be applied in unexpected — and often transformative — ways. It'

Hey, we're just following (customer) orders

The James Webb space telescope does its imaging magic 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Webb's orbit is a great place for delicate detection work: nowhere near our throbbing, glowing, raucous home. Webb's success depends on getting far enough away to allow it to resolve things

Is 2025 the year "Pumpenfreude" becomes a thing?

EV range anxiety may never end ... in the same way that you've always worried about finding a late-night petrol station when you need one.

More than enough materials for green power

Hang on to your hat. You're going to be surprised by this.

Clean energy and GDP: 2nd inning

2024 looks to set another record for clean and green technologies globally.

Clean and green: the new normal

The energy arc of the world swings towards clean.

Gigawatts more offshore wind: coming in 2025

This will blow the doors off your DeLorean.

Just ... maybe

Global renewable energy capacity continues to rise quickly.

Down under levels up with top-down panel

Australia gets in on the new approach.

Climate Change

Gassy knolls: Automation finds the 10 worst methane hotspots

A methane-hotspot tool uses satellite data to find problem regions. We need this tool — and others like it — to stop climate change.

Paris in the (low-carbon) spring

Have you ever been to Paris? It has been, in the past, a city known for crazy, fast-moving traffic. This was observably, objectively true. All you had to do was stand to watch the Arc de Triomphe (from a safe distance). Witness the unpredictable, circling cars: drunken pirañas circling a

Climate Change

Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

Although big methane leaks get a lot of attention, smaller leaks have to be addressed too. Surprisingly, they are most of the problem.

Methane mitigation jobs

Jobs are transforming to meet demands of the changing energy markets.

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Climate Change

DIY: Explore Sentinel-5P's methane data

EU greenhouse gas emissions continue to drop

The EU met its 2020 emissions goals at least 10 years early, and had remarkable success in its 2023 reductions.

China's CO2 flattens out

Chinese carbon dioxide emissions seem to have levelled off.

UK: The last coal-power plant closes

Positive news: no more coal power in the United Kingdom.

Climate Change

Hope.

We begin a series of short posts to draw attention to progress on climate change and the environment.

In Europe, fossil fuels lose out

Fossil fuels decline. Renewables — particularly solar — are on the increase.

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Methane

Satellites are Pooka spotters in a global crisis

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Methane

10 things you need to know about methane satellites

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Climate Change

Something wicked this way comes

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Climate Change

Penguins emit laughing gas

Climate Change

O hauling night

Do you recall the most energy-intensive task of them all?

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Climate Change

Meet the in-laws