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Lead essay visual — nuclear silhouettes, wind, and the sovereignty question.
Biology
2 November 2026 · Biology · Carbon cycle

Insects, Breath, and the Carbon Budget

Soil arthropods number about 10¹⁹. Their CO₂ is vast and mostly recycled. Fossil carbon is a net addition. What living throughput can and cannot explain.

Insects Gross vs net Biology

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Institutions
28 October 2026 · Science · AI · Geopolitics

Science, Institutionalised AI, and the Limits of a Clean Path

AI can cut production and energy costs and support synchronised awareness among powers. It cannot abolish security dilemmas or erase all human impact. What is tractable — and what is not.

AI Energy Verification

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Paleoclimate
27 October 2026 · Paleoclimate · CO₂ · Evidence method

Who Moved First — Temperature or CO₂?

Antarctic ice often shows local warming before CO₂ rises. Global temperature stacks tell a different story. What the records establish — and what the public lag slogan leaves out.

Ice cores CO₂ Lead / lag

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Lead essay
23 October 2026 · Energy policy · Germany · Industry

Germany’s Fall from Grace: Nuclear Exit, Pipeline Shock, and a Transition That Could Not Keep Its Own Promises

Berlin set a tight path out of nuclear and fossils. Physics, industry, and the Baltic pipelines forced a retreat. Wind grew under subsidy on a grid that could not carry it. The United States and China chose the opposite course on firm power.

Nuclear Nord Stream Industry CO₂ data
Opinion & policy
22 October 2026 · Public opinion · Fiscal policy

When polls diverge from policy: climate opinion, carbon prices and who pays

Surveys, carbon pricing revenues, and the gap between public mood and fiscal machinery — a facts-first draft.

Surveys Carbon pricing
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