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BRUSSELS — Claude stood watch on the dark, glistening street as Samuel crouched down to jam a lentil into the tire valve of an SUV. “Of course, it will piss them off,” Claude said. An hour later, the vehicle would be slumped against the curb on a flat tire. By the end of the night, the Belgian cell of the
Tzeporah Berman, chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at a pipeline protest in British Columbia.Patrick Gillin/Alamy/Hakai Magazine
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration.
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NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean has laid the blame of surging energy costs at the feet of everyone but his own party.
As taxpayers across NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia are warned to brace for energy bill spikes of between 20 and 31 per cent, Matt Kean did little to reassure voters that his party would attempt to find a solution ahead of the looming election.
Australians are facing frequent and widespread blackouts amid ‘reliability gaps’ in the power
Die Kombination einer Angebotsverknappung mit einem „Korrektur“-Mechanismus des Marktes (oder einer Preisobergrenze, um es so zu nennen) ist ein riskantes Unterfangen.
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Ein Bergmann aus Kentucky, der in einem viralen Gameday-Video zu sehen war, reflektierte die Rolle der Vaterschaft, als er Details über die VIP-Behandlung seiner Familie mitteilte.
Michael McGuire, seine Frau und sein Sohn wurden alle zu einer VIP-Behandlung in die Rupp Arena eingeladen, nachdem der Cheftrainer der University of Kentucky, John Calipari, McGuire von Kopf bis Fuß mit Kohle bedeckt neben seinem Sohn auf der Tribüne sitzen sah. Der Vater hatte sein Kind vor ein paar Wochen nach Feierabend zum
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LIVERPOOL, England — On the long picket line outside the gates of Liverpool’s Peel Port, rain-soaked dock workers warm themselves with cups of tea as they listen to 1980s pop.
Dozens of buses, cars and trucks honk in solidarity as they pass.
Dockers’ strikes are not new to Liverpool, nor is depravation. But this latest walk-out at Britain’s fourth-largest port is part of something much bigger, a great wave of public and private
Das Buch von 1976 (und seine Verfilmung von 1980) halfen der Welt, die bemerkenswerte Widerstandsfähigkeit des Country-Stars zu sehen. Der Schriftsteller, der an ihrer Seite arbeitete, erinnert sich an seinen einzigartigen Mitarbeiter.
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In ganz Appalachia versuchen Wissenschaftler und Förster, eine Hybridversion wieder einzuführen, die dazu beiträgt, beschädigtes Land wiederzubeleben und gleichzeitig einen geliebten Baum zurückzubringen.
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On a recent afternoon, near the headwaters of Deckers Creek, in West Virginia, Paul Ziemkiewicz, the biological scientist who directs the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University, squatted by a blood-red trickle seeping from a hillside. The color, he pointed out, was the telltale sign of water contaminated by a form of coal waste called acid mine drainage, which poisons aquatic life. For decades, this contaminated water has devastated Appalachia, killing many of the creeks and rivers that lie
Germany’s most-important river is running dry as Europe suffers through a drought that is on course to become its worst in 500 years, with terrifying wildfires burning once again in France.
Water levels in the Rhine – which carries 80 per cent of all goods transported by water in Germany, from its industrial heartlands to Dutch ports – are now so low that it could become impassable to barges later this week, threatening vital supplies of oil and coal that
