Tag: Science / Environment

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OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has contacted former OceanGate employees and expedition members as part of an investigatory probe, WIRED has learned from multiple sources. The carbon fiber submersible Titan imploded on a ...

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Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some 50 miles southwest of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, and strategically located close to a cluster of the island’s top universities, the 3,500-acre Hsinchu Science ...

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The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

While solar power is growing at an extremely rapid clip, in absolute terms, the use of natural gas for electricity production has continued to outpace renewables. But that looks set to change in 2024, as the US Energy Information Agency ...

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Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area, causing damage to homes, power outages, and dangerous or deadly conditions. If you’re on the ...

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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

Moqadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he’d left his home on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, for his job as a security guard, he’d had to turn around twice, having forgotten first his watch and then ...