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Climate Tech Firm To Launch Scaled-Up Plant Sucking CO2 From Air

Jul 7, 2022 | Climate

Construction is due to begin on Wednesday on what could become the world’s biggest plant to capture carbon dioxide from the air and deposit it underground, the company behind the nascent green technology said. Swiss start-up Climeworks AG said its second...

Satellites Show Arctic Sea Ice Melting Even Faster Than Scientists Realized

Mar 17, 2022 | Climate, Satellites

A new study based on NASA and ESA satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice is thinning at a “frightening rate.” Measuring the ice via satellites each month from 2018 to 2021, polar scientists Sahra Kacimi of the California Institute of...

Climate Change is Already Disrupting the Global Supply Chain

Mar 17, 2022 | Climate, Featured, Supply Chain

The COVID pandemic has rightly received most of the blame for global supply chain upheavals in the last two years. But the less publicized threat to supply chains from climate change poses a far more serious threat and is already being felt, scholars and experts say....

Heat Pumps Can Counter Putin and the Climate Crisis

Mar 10, 2022 | Climate, Energy

Last month, author and climate activist Bill McKibben proposed an unusual way that President Biden could simultaneously combat climate change and the war in Ukraine. It all came down to heat pumps. At the time, McKibben’s musings...

UK: Lack of Agri-tech Knowledge ‘Holding Farmers Back’

Jan 27, 2022 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Climate

A lack of knowledge is holding many farmers back from investing in new agricultural technology, according to a new survey by NFU Mutual. Lack of access to finance was the second highest reason limiting respondents (30%), followed by uncertainty about the future (17%)...

The Transportation of Tomorrow Will Address Climate Change

Jan 6, 2022 | Climate

As the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, the transportation industry will play an enormous role in efforts to reduce emissions in the face of climate change. When releasing in November the administration’s long-term...