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Fighting climate change can often feel like an overwhelming endeavor. Success must be reached using a combination of tactics in a sustained and relentless manner, according to experts.

Experts site Scottish example, with turbines along roads and rail lines, as a way to make better use of ‘cheap, clean’ energy source

Benjamin Sovacool and Rebecca Pearl-Martinez bring equity focus to climate change fight as new leaders of BU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy

To power the world, we’d need 14,500 nuclear plants within a couple of decades

The study found that new technology and data services would render even more devices obsolete, leading to further waste and the need for new materials.

New reporting by human rights watchdogs reveals that workers at the world’s largest cobalt mines are underpaid, underfed, and, in some cases, physically abused on the job. These mines are set to play a key role in the EV transition.

Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.

Research paper from UK university cautions that received wisdom of sustainability associated with next-generation mobile technology is not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base.

Hackers and terrorists represent a potential threat to the development of direct air carbon capture (DACCS) technology in the UK, a parliamentary committee has been told.

Datacentre power demands - and emissions - are increasing exponentially, and governments must incentivise change