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Facebook, Google, Stripe, Shopify Investing a Billion Dollars in Pre-Orders for Captured Carbon
Four gargantuan tech companies have put together a $1.2 billion fund to pull carbon out of the atmosphere with a unique model that could...
Methane-Eating Bacteria Converts Greenhouse Gas to Fuel (And Could Clean-up Fracking Sites)
Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for their natural ability to convert the potent greenhouse...
New Plant-Derived Sustainable ‘Plastic’ is Tough as Bone and Hard as Aluminum
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells.
A single...
Giant Floating Solar Panel Flowers Replace Coal in Korea and Become Tourist Destination
South Korea's total land surface is not large. Instead of clearing what little real estate there is for renewable energy projects, 92,000 solar panels...
This Bubbly Blue Soda Gets its Color From the Sea – and Captures CO2 With Every Batch
Dutch food scientists have created a bright turquoise soda made from a kind of algae which absorbs more carbon than it emits through the...
Iconic Pink Flamingos Are Coming Back and Standing Tall in Florida
Once extirpated from Florida such that it lost its status as a native species, the American Flamingo is being sighted again in the state's...
Beavers Saved From Euthanasia Transform and Replenish Rivers in the Utah Desert
Beavers and their dams can positively impact essentially any environment they're placed in, even the scorching heat of the Moab Desert in Utah. And...
How This Bouncy Castle Cleans the Air and Gobbles CO2 While You Jump
While nations announced pledges to do more to prevent climate change, one announcement at COP26 was rather more playful.
An inflatable bouncy castle, or what...
Batteries of the Future Set to be Cheaper and Better – Thanks to Sugar
Simply by adding sugar, researchers from the Monash Energy Institute have created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to the lithium-ion batteries that are...
CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly Restores Vision In Legally Blind Patients
A lot of work is being done in the fields of CRISPR gene-editing, and recently the revolutionary therapy was used to partially restore the...
Scientists Work to Turn the Tide of Oyster and Seagrass Decline in Chesapeake Bay, Often by Hand
The Chesapeake Bay has, despite massive setbacks, continued to return to something resembling a healthy estuarine ecosystem, in no small part because of the...
Gigantic 438-Year-old Coral Discovered in the Great Barrier Reef in ‘Excellent Condition’
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
The widest, and perhaps oldest single coral in...
A Fisherman’s Underwater Sculptures Have Stopped Illegal Trawling – Bringing Art and Biodiversity Back to Italian Bay
When Paolo Fanciulli dropped 39 large marble sculptures down to the bottom of the sea off Tuscany's Maremma Regional Park, it was not his...
Company Says its Multi-Day Storage Batteries For Renewable Energy Are the Holy Grail We’ve Been Waiting For
Unveiled after years of work, an energy startup in Massachusetts is claiming that in a few years they can produce, at scale, "the battery...
Sweat Could Power Smart Watches and Activity Trackers in the Future – Researchers Develop New Technology
Wearable electronic devices are great tools for health monitoring, but it has been difficult to find convenient power sources for them.
Now, a group of...
Honda is Designing an Ingenious In-Shoe Navigation System For The Visually Impaired
Honda is developing a in-shoe navigation system to support the visually impaired with walking, and it could be a game-changer.
The Ashirase is a navigation...
Seaweed is the Food –and Fuel– of a Sustainable World, And it May Start in Australia
Australian scientists have been uncovering a near-unending list of ways kelp and other kinds of seaweed can help in the fight against climate change.
It's...
To Replace Lithium Batteries For Grid Storage ‘Gravitricity’ Uses Gravity
A company that uses gravity to create a 'giant battery' has just completed a successful test in Scotland, paving the way for its commercial-scale...
Scientists Create World’s First Truly Biodegradable Single-use Plastic That ‘Eats Itself’ in Just 2 Weeks
Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or...
Coating Buildings With This Paint Might Cool Them Down Enough to Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning
In an effort to curb global warming, Purdue University engineers have created the whitest paint yet. Coating buildings with this paint may one day...