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Um dirigível equipado com turbinas produz eletricidade a 2.000 metros de altitude na China
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A vast white airship hangs almost silently over a mountainous part of China, held to the ground by a single...
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Eu achava que estava ajudando”: por que amassar garrafas plásticas é uma falsa boa ideia
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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In the rush to tidy the kitchen or take the rubbish out, one small action has become a quiet habit:...
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A maior fonte de terras raras estava escondida em nossos resíduos industriais
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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While governments race to secure new mineral deposits, a quieter opportunity is emerging in an unlikely place: vast mounds of...
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Quando os Estados Unidos chamam a França para ajudar a conter a China
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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A US carmaker shaking hands with a French one, assembly lines in northern France, and a third, quiet player in...
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Broken promises on four wheels: why drivers who believed electric cars would save them money now feel betrayed, angry, and ready to abandon the green transition
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a bleak Tuesday morning, Daniel switches off the motor of his two‑year‑old electric SUV and stays in the driver’s...
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Dark upheaval for a visionary who bet everything on immortality biotech: he is now forced to live with the consequences ‘I just wanted to live forever’ – a story that splits humanity
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a bleak Tuesday in Geneva, beneath a sky the shade of worn steel, the man who once tried to...
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China’s cheap electric cars flood Europe’s streets ‘destroying jobs or saving the planet?’ – a long, uncomfortable story that splits workers, greens, and politicians right down the middle
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a damp Tuesday morning in Lyon - the sort of day when scooters spray water off the tarmac -...
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Retirement disaster: how a well?meaning pensioner who lent his field to a local beekeeper now faces a crushing agricultural tax bill ‘I’m not making any money from this at all’ – a story that tears communities apart
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a mild spring afternoon, under a thin sunlight that seems to brighten every shade, John Walker stood by the...
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Beekeeper’s burden: a retiree who lent land for free must pay agricultural tax ‘I’m not making any money from this’ – a bureaucratic sting that pits small landowners against the taxman
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a mild spring morning, with the air already alive with movement, Michael-a 71‑year‑old pensioner-paces the thin strip of land...
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Is France in industrial decline? This French company is about to break a world record in the strategic subsea cable race
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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While arguments in France swirl around deindustrialisation, one of the country’s flagship industrial groups is quietly preparing something most nations...
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When a retiree’s “harmless favor” for a struggling beekeeper mutates into a crushing farm tax bill that rips open class resentments, pits hardline “rule of law” purists against compassion-first neighbors, and forces a country to decide whether bureaucratic loyalty is nobler than mercy for those whose only crime was letting a few bees live on their land
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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The old Renault rattled up the dirt track as though it could do it with its eyes shut. Michel, 72,...
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“I became a regulatory documentation lead, and my income reflects the expertise”
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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The promotion email arrived on a Tuesday, wedged neatly between a meeting invite about safety labelling and an automated nudge...
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2,500 km without recharging : carbon batteries change the game for electric cars and drones
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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Engineers are beginning to treat carbon fibre as more than a structural champion: it is being reimagined as an energy...
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The United Kingdom breaks offshore wind record with 22.7 GW and more than half its power from wind
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a raw, gusty evening in mid-November, Great Britain’s offshore wind fleet slipped past a landmark that would have been...
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German-style refuelling: the simple trick that cuts your fuel bill
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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Across Germany and France, motorists are increasingly discovering that the place and moment you buy fuel can influence the cost...
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French nuclear power is living a true “golden age” as a third company files a reactor with the safety regulator
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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In the space of only a few months, three young firms have moved their small and advanced reactor plans from...
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As China flaunts its giant skyscrapers a new class of human elevator is born paid almost nothing to scale endless stairs so the wealthy never touch a button
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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The first time you witness it, you’re left slightly baffled. In the polished foyer of a brand-new high-rise in Shenzhen,...
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Elon Musk’s father was right about his son the billionaire has taken his new role too seriously and his companies are suffering
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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The room was almost pitch-black, lit only by the wash of three monitors-each one serving up a different Elon Musk...
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“I work as a night dispatcher, and shift premiums changed my monthly income”
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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At 02:17, the phones tend to ease off. The city drops into a peculiar half-quiet, and the fluorescent lighting in...
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While we install turbines on land China just made one fly at 1500 meters high and Europe looks totally ridiculous
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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Europe is still trudging through permits for ever-taller towers, while China has already lifted a wind turbine to 1,500 metres...
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Retirement ruined or tax justice served as a landowner who lent fields to a beekeeper is ordered to pay agricultural levies despite claiming he earned nothing, igniting a bitter nationwide debate over whether goodwill should be punished or profitable loopholes finally closed
Harriet L. Whitcombe
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On a dull Tuesday morning, Gérard takes his usual slow walk along the boundary of his field, hands buried in...
