Résumé/Abstract Electricity generation provides 18,000 terawatt-hours of energy a year,
around 40% of humanity's total energy use. In doing so it produces more than 10 gigatonnes
of carbon dioxide every year, the largest sectoral contribution of humanity's fossil-fuel ...

Rises in global average temperature are remote from most people's experi- ence, but two studies
in this week's Nature1,2 conclude that climate warming is already causing extreme weather events
that affect the lives of millions. The research directly links rising greenhouse-gas levels ...

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Commercial fisheries worldwide are being driven to collapse. Quirin Schiermeier wonders why
fisheries scientists are failing to halt this pillage, and asks what hope is there for the future sustainability
of fish stocks. ... Rocking the boat: Daniel Pauly (rear) is a vocal critic of 'single-species' ...

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The question was asked after last year's catastrophic floods in Pakistan and record-breaking
heat wave in Russia. It was asked again this year about the freakish tornado clusters in the
southeastern United States and the devastating drought in Africa. And it was asked yet ...

Henry Ellis, captain of the British slave-trader Earl of Halifax, had a scientific bent. While sailing
the subtropical Atlantic in 1751, he measured water temperatures at different depths, using a
thermometer, a long rope and a bucket fitted with flaps that sealed water inside the vessel ...

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Abstract One way to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is to put it back in the
ground. In this, the first of two News Features on carbon sequestration, Quirin Schiermeier
asks when the world's coal-fired power plants will start storing away their carbon. In the ...