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Science and Technology:

¶ Germany’s dash away from nuclear power and toward renewables has helped to create new industries. About 370,000 Germans work in the renewable energy industry, twice the number who work in fossil fuels, according to the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In the change, cities with employment problems are being revived. [The Guardian] ‘

Solar panel roofs in Vauban in Freiburg, Germany Photograph: Imagebroker/Rex Shutterstock

¶ Ravaged by months of war, Yemen is now being battered by the first tropical storm on record to make landfall in the impoverished Arab country. Tropical Cyclone Chapala slammed into Yemen’s central coast early Tuesday, lashing the area with maximum sustained winds of around 85 mph and over a year’s rain in one day. [CNN]

World:

¶ A study published in Nature by scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley has made waves for its finding that thus far we…