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How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

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How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

Amsterdam aims to become a fully circular city by 2050, with a plan to halve new raw material use by 2030. New Scientist explored projects leading this green shift.

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How captured carbon dioxide could help mine carbon-negative nickel

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Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy

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Environment

China's CO2 emissions have started falling – is this finally the peak?

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A clean energy source may be lurking beneath mountain ranges

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Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe

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Earthquakes could be an overlooked source of underground hydrogen fuel

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Physics

First ever 'black hole bomb' created in the lab

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Environment

Wind farm developers are worried about neighbours stealing their wind

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Extreme weather could disrupt China's renewable energy boom

As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to bad weather – and that could encourage the use of coal plants

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How toilet waste is being rebranded as a valuable resource

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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process

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Dark energy isn't what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos

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The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion

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