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Silvia Ombellini and Simone Riccardi (Credit: Silvia Ombellini)

'Tourists are rethinking their relationship with Earth'

Freetown's chief heat officer Eugenia Kargbo is charged with making her city greener and more liveable (Credit: Susan Kargbo)

The mirrors cooling Sierra Leone

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It's not that Americans aren't buying EVs – it's that they're not adopting them as quickly as many expected and hoped (Credit: Alamy)

Three reasons Americans won't buy EVs

A mature cotton boll on a white background (Credit: Alamy)

An alternative to the lithium battery?

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Ny Ålesund and Zeppelinfjellet in the daytime darkness of winter (Credit: Anna Filipova)

Earthrise captured from the surface of the Moon (Credit: Nasa)

A factory worker checks row upon row of lithium batteries (Credit: Getty Images)

An orca leaps out of the sea (Credit: Getty Images)

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Mine water is cleaned at a facility in the UK (Credit: Coal Authority)

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Male American bison on prairie track (Credit: Getty Images)

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Illustration of a turtle and wind turbines (Credit: BBC)

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The Isle of Eigg: The community-owned island that powers itself (Credit: markferguson2/Alamy)

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Children at Hopealaakso nursery in Helsinki spend the entire day playing and learning in the forest (Credit: Juho Pietarila)

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