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Two workers in full protective blue suits stand either side of a large EV battery (Credit: Formula E)

The batteries powering the fastest racing EVs

By Michael Marshall

Trees in foreground on either side of photo frame a sideview of a beach showing a river flowing parallel to the sea and mountains covered with trees in background (Credit: katoku.org)

How a seawall divided this Japanese island village

By Ronald Rodrigues and Kaori Kohyama

Car batteries are transported through a factory on flatbed robots (Credit: Getty Images)

Where EV batteries go to die – and be reborn

By Michael Marshall

A dried up, furled up Selaginella lepidophylla plant (Credit: Alamy)

Why we may soon need to eat 'resurrection' plants

By Alex Riley

A skimmer boat corrals oil after the Deepwater Horizon spill (Credit: Getty Images)

Can you ever really clean up an oil spill?

By Jocelyn Timperley

Woman in pink shirt and white blazer wearing VR goggles in front of leafy plants (Credit: Getty Images)

The future of conservation might be in VR headsets

By Becca Warner

A mound of brewers' spent grain being shovelled (Credit: Getty Images)

The beer sludge being turned into vegan milk

By Josh Sims

Equatic's pilot plant sits on a barge in the Port of Los Angeles (Credit: Equatic)

The controversial device trapping CO2 in the ocean

By Jocelyn Timperley

A construction worker pouring concrete foundations (Credit: Getty Images)

The batteries made from cement

By Tom Ough

Xiaolangdi dam in China (Credit: Getty Images)

A 'clean' power source's hidden emissions

By Anna Turns

A man working on lithium battery production at a factory in China (Credit: Getty Images)

Rivals of the lithium battery are charging up

By Claudia Lee

Abandoned house in Cleveland Ohio (Credit: Getty Images)

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses

By Nick Hilden

A man stands amid a field of hydropanels in UAE (Credit: Getty Images)

How our drinking water could come from thin air

By Martine Paris

A van drives down 14th Street in Detroit, Michigan, with the position of inductive coils marked on the image digitally (Credit: Electreon)

The roads where EVs charge on the move

By Martine Paris

Electric vehicles charging in a car park (Credit: Getty Images)

Can 'lightweighting' combat EV range anxiety?

By Martine Paris

Fairphone wants to reduce global electronic waste by selling phones that have a longer working life (Credit: Getty Images)

The phone you can repair yourself

By Isabelle Gerretsen