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Sublime Cement says it's ready to start scaling on the "world's cleanest cement," which meets industry performance standards relying on room-temperature electrolyzers in place of fossil-fueled furnaces, using a variety of zero-carbon input materials.
The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.
Truck drivers, auto workers, and others are fighting for the greener, smarter era of transportation to also include better pay and more protections for humans.
U.S. fund KKR has asked Telecom Italia (TIM) to push back a Sept. 30 deadline to submit a multi-billion euro binding offer for the phone group's landline network until Oct.15, TIM said on Friday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom late on Friday vetoed a bill to prevent heavy-duty driverless trucks from operating in the state, in a relief for companies developing autonomous technology to haul goods across the U.S.
Bill McKibben writes about Calcasieu Pass 2, a liquefied-natural-gas export terminal proposed for the Louisiana coast, which the Biden Administration is likely to approve or reject this fall.
Reintroducing Left Wondering with Joel Stein — an advice column on how to lead an ethical life in an increasingly unethical world.
The desert-dwelling Namaqua chameleon has a pretty neat trick – it changes skin color to stay cool when outdoor temperatures rise, and stay warm when they drop. An experimental new coating could one day do the same thing for our homes.
The growth in remote and hybrid work catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic could have significant environmental implications. We assess the greenhouse gas emissions of this transition, considering factors including information and communication technology, commuting, noncommute travel, and office and residential energy use. We find that, in the United States, switching from working onsite to working from home can reduce up to 58% of work’s carbon footprint, and the impacts of IT usage are negligible, while office energy use and noncommute travel impacts are important. Our study also suggests that achieving the environmental benefits of remote work requires proper setup of people’s lifestyle, including their vehicle choice, travel behavior, and the configuration of home and work environment.
The ongoing tension between the enduring problems that beset the telecommunications sector, and the potential economic and social benefits continually associated with these technologies is the point of departure for our Feature Topic, which reflects on the current state of telecommunications, while also casting a cautious eye forward. The articles in this Feature Topic outline ongoing challenges around connectivity as well as contestations over 5G rollouts and competing international visions. However, the articles are not solely defined by critique, and authors also take time to articulate a positive future for telecommunications, one more oriented towards the actual needs of citizens. Australia features prominently in these articles, but the section also offers a global perspective, with authors accounting for the Global South as well as developments across the Asia-Pacific.
In the pursuit of a sustainable and environmentally favorable future, renewable energy sources have assumed the central role. In particular, solar energy has emerged as a formidable competitor in the global transition to healthier and more sustainable energy sources. Using photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert sunlight into electricity, solar energy is extracted from the sun’s beams. This renewable energy source has acquired immense popularity because of its numerous benefits, which include reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower electricity costs and its abundance as a virtually infinite energy source. However, as solar technology continues to develop, the demand for trained and competent professionals in the solar industry is greater than ever. In an interview with EE Times, Solar Bootcamp University CEO Garrett Mendelsohn explores the aspects of this year’s surge in solar energy investment and how this is changing the way people buy and sell solar panels.
31 July 2023 - WELLFLEET, MA - In a model of international exchange and cooperation, four students from Mexico immersed themselves in the Cape Cod National Seashore's…
This story is intended to raise awareness about issues surrounding Camp Lejeune water contamination and is sponsored by Environmental Litigation Group, P.C. While most military bases nationwide have a history of toxic environmental contamination, the case of Camp Lejeune stands out because of the severity and extent of the issue. Between 1953 and 1987, as…
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The impacts of climate change including related disasters, such as wildfires and sea level rise, are increasingly raising a question about how best to save cultural heritage.
Introtuction Cancer and Monopoly Cell phone service that costs $15 a month in France or $12 a month in Australia bills out at an average of $61.85 per month in the United States. High-speed broadband that’s a bit over $31 a month in France or $36 in Germany (for higher speeds and better reliability than almost anywhere in the United States) averages nearly $70 per month in the US. Similar metrics are found with pharmaceuticals, airfares, and medical costs, among dozens of other product and service categories.1 Why is this? Monopoly. The average American family pays an annual “monopoly tax”—in additional costs for pretty much everything—of around $5,000, according to economist Thomas Philippon. And things are steadily getting worse as monopolistic concentrations continue to tighten their grip on every American industry from banking to telecom to food.2 Monopoly isn’t the arcane, legalistic thing that most Americans think of (if they’re not mistaking it for the board game, which was invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 as a cautionary tale3). In multiple very real ways, monopoly touches the lives of all of us. A monopoly is broadly defined as a single part of a larger system that takes over or dominates, controls, and consumes all the energy and functions of the entire system. In the process, the system is warped and twisted away from its normal function and, like a body reacting to a cancer, begins to redirect all its resources to feed the single monopolistic entity.
A planned $600 million waste-to-fuel plant in Gary is one step closer to coming to fruition after the Indiana Finance Authority approved up to $500 million in bonds for the project on Thursday. Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. plans to begin construction next year.
Social media platform X's head of policy for India and South Asia, Samiran Gupta, has resigned, two sources said, a top departure that comes ahead of India elections and as the company fights a court battle with New Delhi over content removal.
The American Climate Corps will employ tens of thousands to prepare the country for the pain ahead. But it'll need to get much, much bigger.
The order calls for the state Department of Fish and Game to draw up a set of biodiversity conservation targets for state agencies to implement in 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Almost 200 years on from when Charles Darwin observed his Galapagos Islands finches, which became the emblems of his theory of evolution, birds in the region are again in the news for what many scientists warn could be the source of the next pandemic.
At disaster sites, it's not uncommon for both the water supply and electrical grid to be out of commission. That's where a new system may someday come in, as it utilizes just a small amount of electricity – which could be stored in a battery – to desalinate seawater for drinking.
Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture
Sky is calling for a national IP roadmap, as well as for the government to proactively support production studio infrastructure by streamlining planning processes and rethinking the Valuation Office Agency’s property tax rating for studios
18 August 2023 — EASTHAM, MA — Earlier this summer, the Town of Eastham barred swimming at three bayside beaches after regular water quality testing…
Last month, when Hurricane Idalia clobbered the sparsely settled coast of Taylor County in Florida’s Big Bend region, it sent my memory spinning back nearly 20 years to the first time I visited that area. I was there to report on what was happening to hundreds of acres of swamp and salt marsh in an area that was aptly called “Boggy Bay.” This undeveloped acreage lay in the middle of the Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve, the state’s largest such preserve and one of the largest stretches of uninterrupted sea grass in North America. On that warm May day in 2006, the only sounds I heard were the wind riffling through the Spartina and needle rush, the cry of a passing osprey, and the scuttling of thousands of fiddler crabs as they scurried across the mud flats. But the bulldozers weren’t far off.
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