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Portugal tests urban forests to cool cities
Portugal is launching five pilot projects to lower urban temperatures through large-scale tree planting, drawing on successful green initiatives from abroad. In Austria, new regulations finally allow households with solar panels to share their excess electricity with neighbors for free. Meanwhile, German biophysicist Georg Nagel was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and bypassed the traditional suspense by simply calling Stockholm himself to confirm the news.
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