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By Veronika Melkozerova 18 April 2020 Satellite view of a forest fire burning in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, not far from the nuclear power plant in April 2020. Photo: Planet Labs KYIV,...
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BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2020: Carbon emissions increase for...
World consumption of primary energy in exajoules, 1994-2019. Primary energy consumption rose by 1.3 percent in 2019, less than half its rate in 2018 (2.8 percent). Growth was driven by renewables (3.2...
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Ten years on, Japan mourns victims of earthquake and “profoundly man-made”...
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The story of how the Doomsday Clock began ticking 75 years ago, the...
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The future of energy will require bigger sacrifices from citizens – “If you...
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Sweden’s climate policy is in turmoil – Far-right government puts Environment...
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2023 Doomsday Clock statement: A time of unprecedented danger – It is 90...
The Doomsday Clock in 2023. In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the clock to 90 seconds from midnight, the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been. Graphic: Bulletin of the...
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High river temperatures to limit French nuclear power production – Hot...
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Canadian lake sediments reveal start of Earth’s Anthropocene epoch –...
Correlation of significant shifts in or appearances of markers between sites documenting the onset of the Anthropocene. Collectively, the 12 reference sites, via analysis across many sites using...
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The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity’s era of catastrophic...
The Trinity test fireball, 25 thousandths of a second after its detonation at the Alamogordo bombing range in New Mexico at 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on 16 July 1945. Photo: Los Alamos National...
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