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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture war that pits green energy against the countryside’s traditional image of food…

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Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again

One hundred years ago, a catastrophic flood carrying enormous boulders swept through part of Dolgarrog village, north Wales, destroying several homes, a bridge and the local chapel. Ten adults and six children lost their lives. The tragedy was widely reported and King George V sent a message of condolence.

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Why ‘green’ finance isn’t always as sustainable as it seems

In the wake of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, green finance has been increasingly celebrated as a way to tackle environmental challenges. Banks, investment funds and insurers have rolled out a growing range of green products, from green bonds to sustainability-linked loans. This momentum is encouraged by international environmental efforts…

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Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste

Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society.

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Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard

Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What makes Melissa so alarming isn’t just its size and strength, but the speed with which it became so powerful. In a single day, it exploded from…

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Chinese controls on rare earths could create challenges for the west’s plans for green tech

China recently announced that it was putting new controls on the export of rare earth elements, sparking a new round in the country’s ongoing trade war with the US.

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Climate change is becoming an insurance crisis

Imagine waking up to find your living room underwater for the second time in five years. You try to claim insurance, only to be told your property is now uninsurable. Premiums have tripled. Your mortgage lender is concerned. And your biggest asset, your home, is rapidly losing value.

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Why are 4.7 million Floridians insured through ACA marketplace plans, and what happens if they lose their subsidies?

Significant Figures is a series from The Conversation in which scholars explain an important number in the news.

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Why most of us are reluctant to switch banks, even though it could cut our environmental impact

Beyond cutting back on meat or making the jump to an electric vehicle, another way consumers can reduce their environmental impact is to switch to a green bank. It’s a lifestyle change that could deliver powerful effects – removing money from the fossil fuels pipeline – for little effort or…

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Changes to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre threaten open research – and might infringe on the broadcaster’s charter

The BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is housed in an unassuming bungalow on the outskirts of Reading, 40 miles west of London. It holds one of the greatest document collections of British and global history from the past century.

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5 Charts That Show How Young Australians Are Getting Screwed

Despite having greater access to education and information, young Aussies are more precarious, indebted, insecure and anxious than ever before.

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Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout

Right now, more than 311,000 Australian Facebook users can apply for a slice of a A$50 million compensation fund from tech giant Meta – the largest ever payment for a breach of Australians’ privacy.

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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs would have genuine intelligence. A strong AI would be conscious.

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Putin, Zelensky and the art of ‘playing’ the US president

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The UK military says Russia targets its satellites on a weekly basis. What can be done about it?

Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis, according to the head of UK Space Command.

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Sanctions on Russia have failed to stop the war so far – will Trump’s latest package be any different?

Donald Trump has finally decided to hit Russia with sanctions – the first package he has imposed since he came back to the White House in January.

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Have you ever wondered how our Daily newsletter comes into being? It lands in your inbox every day as a neat package: a short editorial followed by a dozen or so articles written by academics on everything from health and science to politics to the environment or arts. For you…

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There is little evidence AI chatbots are ‘bullying kids’ – but this doesn’t mean these tools are safe

Over the weekend, Education Minister Jason Clare sounded the alarm about “AI chatbots bullying kids”.

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What people at a Venice conference believe is the biggest climate change challenge in their home countries

Over the weekend I was at an environment conference on the tiny island of San Servolo, just off the coast of Venice. You are surrounded by water on all sides, stretching for miles.

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The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth.

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Record-breaking CO₂ rise shows the Amazon is faltering — yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) rose faster in 2024 than in any year since records began – far faster than scientists expected.

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How does a flaming piece of space junk end up on Earth? A space archaeologist explains

The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia’s Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled upon it.

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Changes are coming for residential aged care. Here’s what to know

The way Australians pay for residential aged care, or nursing homes, is changing from November 1.

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