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America and climate change
How America can rid itself of both carbon and blackouts
This is the moment for an ambitious attempt to deal with climate change
Decarbonising America
Joe Biden’s climate-friendly energy revolution
What it will take to fight rising temperatures
Climate change
How Britain decarbonised faster than any other rich country
That was the easy bit. Now the hard stuff starts
The race to zero
Bill Gates has a plan to save the world
Tackling climate change, he says, requires governments and business to work together
Science
Midnight sky
Poland’s coal-fired home heating creates widespread pollution
The government is backing away from coal—but not fast enough
The World If
Why is Texas experiencing a winter freeze?
Whether or not climate change is to blame this time, places with mild climates should prepare for more extreme weather
The tortoise and the hare
How to hybridise batteries and supercapacitors
The offspring will give electric cars more range and power
Hydrogen-powered flight
Is the time now ripe for planes to run on hydrogen?
Some planemakers think the answer may be “yes”
Politics
Lexington
How will John Kerry fare as Joe Biden’s climate envoy?
The former secretary of state is a good pick for what may prove to be a chastening task
Business and finance
A worrying windfall
The wind-power boom set off a scramble for balsa wood in Ecuador
It has had unintended consequences
Free exchange
How should economists think about biodiversity?
A new report for the British government lays out a framework
Climate briefs
Softening the blow
Climate adaptation policies are needed more than ever
People are already suffering from catastrophic losses as a result of extreme weather events like cyclone Amphan
Not-so-slow burn
The world’s energy system must be transformed completely
It has been changed before, but never as fast or fully as must happen now
Bad times
Damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising
It will go far beyond drought, melting ice sheets and crop failures
Where nature ends
Humanity’s immense impact on Earth’s climate and carbon cycle
Much needs to be done for the damage to be reversed
Climate briefs
Projections of the future
How modelling articulates the science of climate change
From paper and pencil to the world’s fastest computers
The problematic politics of climate change
Why tackling global warming is a challenge without precedent
The first of six weekly briefs looks at the history of efforts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions
