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Can the world kick its fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?

Clean energy is growing quickly. But time is running out to rein in carbon emissions.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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A Chinese coal mine worker walks in a sorting area at a coal mine on November 25, 2015 in Shanxi, China.

A worker walks through a sorting area at a coal mine in Shanxi, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty

Making sense of recent energy trends can seem like a high-stakes Rorschach test. Some experts see the boom in renewable energy and the shift away from coal in many countries as evidence that the world is beginning to turn a corner on global warming. Others see simply a continuing reliance on low-cost fossil fuels, slow governmental action and a rising risk of planetary meltdown.

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Nature 556, 422-425 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04931-6

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