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Pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the output of solar panels around the world, according to new research that reveals a hidden cost of running fossil fuel and renewable energy systems side by side.

Beneath the waves around the British Isles, vast meadows of eelgrass provide a home for hundreds of small marine creatures, such as shrimps, snails, isopods and worms that form the foundation of coastal food webs. But new research warns that rising nutrient pollution is emptying these habitats of the wildlife that depends on them.