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February 2025

  • Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann Scientists at the University of Utah, America - 1989<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa Press / Rex Features (157299a) STANLEY PONS AND MARTIN FLEISCHMANN Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann Scientists at the University of Utah, America - 1989

    Cold fusion claims that don’t bear scrutiny

    Letter: Dr Philip Thomas responds to a letter claiming that cold fusion could be a viable alternative to fossil fuels

31 January 2025

  • Climate activists holding a demonstration outside the Scottish court of session as the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing began on 12 November 2024

    ‘We’d go absolutely nuts’: PM warned of Labour fight if he backs huge oilfield

  • Aerial view of wind turbines and farmland near Leeds

    Land use plan for England to map best areas for farming and nature

30 January 2025

  • Montage illustration showing a fisher with cutouts of oil rigs

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Like dropping a bomb’: why is clean energy leader Uruguay ramping up the search for oil?

  • Climate activists demonstrate outside the court: a group of men and women of diverse ages hold signs and banners including one which reads: Equinor must stop Rosebank

    Rosebank oilfield go-ahead decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court

  • Shell logo

    Shell investors in line for multibillion-dollar windfall despite weak profits

  • building work at Hinkley Point C

    Hinkley Point C owner warns fish protection row may further delay nuclear plant

29 January 2025

  • Solar farm with treed hill in background

    Renewables break record for share of Australia’s main energy supply in December quarter, data reveals

  • Yoshua Bengio writing on a transparent whiteboard

    What International AI Safety report says on jobs, climate, cyberwar and more

28 January 2025

  • A sign on Sandside beach warning the public of radioactive particles having been found there that are believed to have been discharged from nuclear the research site at Dounreay.

    Cold fusion may be a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels

  • Tony Haymet

    Australia’s new chief scientist open to nuclear power but focused on energy forms available ‘right now’

27 January 2025

  • Connah's Quay, a gas-fired power station in Flint, UK

    UK has spent £12.5bn from energy bills on fossil fuel power plants in past decade

    Research finds 60% of government contracts through backup ‘capacity market’ went to fossil fuel plants
  • A plume of smoke drifts from the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, Lousiana, toward the town of Reserve on 25 August 2023.

    Guardian investigation fuels class-action lawsuit against petro giant

    Marathon Petroleum said a massive fire at its Louisiana refinery caused ‘no offsite impacts’. Reporting by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture raised doubts about this claim
  • A person installing solar panels

    Suburb-wide electrification trials to be rolled out across Australia in bid to fuel transition away from gas

    Project providing subsidies to install solar batteries and electric appliances part of Labor deal with crossbenchers

25 January 2025

  • Woman standing and shouting by a security guard.

    Wes Streeting heckled by climate protesters at Fabian Society address

  • Workers in red boiler suits at the Shell energy and chemical park in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

    Observer business agenda
    The oil crisis fuelled by Russia’s war is evaporating – and so are the profits

24 January 2025

  • A woman holds a glass of water in front of a fan

    Change by degrees
    No air con? Try these DIY tricks to keep your house cool and your energy use low

  • Red placard saying 'Trump: climate disaster' with his picture on it, with building behind

    How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal

23 January 2025

  • A semi-sunken house in the Chilterns, England.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: How living underground can drastically cut energy bills

    Subterranean homes stay cool in summer and warm in winter and can save about 80% in energy costs

22 January 2025

  • Wind turbines in a field at sunset in the Polish countryside

    Europe now
    ‘Rising star’: EU made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024

    Report reveals solar power generated 11% of bloc’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10%
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