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Cloud computing is now being used by a wide variety of businesses around the world

Timber rots, cement crumbles, metal corrodes: plastics are there for ever. By 2050 there could be 12 billion tonnes in the world’s landfills.

The growing popularity of electric cars leads one major European manufacturer to a sharp cut in fossil fuel-driven vehicle production. 

Organic farming does not always benefit the environment in the ways people expect, and may not avert climate change effects, scientists say.

Renewable fuels are challenging nuclear energy’s survival everywhere, and financing new reactors is growing increasingly difficult.

Subsidies may be the least efficient and most expensive way of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Too much reliance on natural gas to generate electricity means the Paris climate target will be missed and money wasted on underused pipelines.

Sunshine can save lives and American dollars too. US scientists have just worked out how many lives, and at what price, solar power can deliver.