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The Hump

This isn’t just about fossil fuels. It’s about something MUCH bigger

Nobody said this would be easy

Globalisation is a far, far bigger deal than you think

Jan Czochralski: the forgotten hero of the silicon age

What the concrete crisis in UK schools teaches us about climate change

Moving Beaches

Why are we erasing our industrial history?

Our planetary footprint is growing at an astounding rate

Why does Britain export 80% of its oil?

Salt Power

Lights Out World

Phosphogeddon Never

The Glass Famine

The Best Datapoint of All: Steel

World of Glass

It's Material World Week!

The Eerie Story of Low Background Steel

Beyond Gigafactories

How Batteries Work

Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance

Atoms for Copper

Events

The Race to Win the Industrial Revolution

How Coal Helped Avert an Environmental Disaster

The Salt Diaspora

It’s the Energy, Stupid

Why We Need More Maps

Watching Paint Dry

Yet Another Industrial Revolution

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