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What would it take to ditch single-use plastic?

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California just went 9.25 hours using only renewable energy

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This Harvard spinoff uses plastic-eating microbes to clean up waste

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This solar-building robot is designed to solve one of the industry’s biggest problems

19.04.2024 10

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These street lights double as EV chargers

18.04.2024 6

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In Bonn, Germany, these sleek bike elevators help store more bikes in a tiny footprint

17.04.2024 5

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A baby born this year could lose $1 million over their lifetime because of climate change

16.04.2024 9

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How Oregon’s new right-to-repair law forced Apple to change

15.04.2024 7

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Why tech giants are putting $57 million into crushed volcanic rock

Last fall, on a farm in Northern Wisconsin, a farmer spread 1,421 metric tons of crushed volcanic rock on his fields before planting soybeans and...

07.12.2023 10

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San Diego is constructing ADU ‘apartment buildings’ to fight its housing shortage

A typical accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, is small and hidden behind a larger house. But a program in San Diego makes it possible to add several...

06.12.2023 5

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Ever had to wait on the tarmac for your plane to de-ice? This startup has a quicker solution

When he was in grad school at MIT, Alex Bratianu-Badea got stuck on a plane at Boston Logan Airport that had to be de-iced, delaying the flight. As he...

05.12.2023 10

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Yes, we should remove lead pipes, but clean drinking water is still no guarantee

A proposed new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would mean that most cities have to replace their lead water pipes within a...

01.12.2023 2

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These noise-canceling fountains can help mask traffic

At a city park in Antwerp, the sound of traffic is constant. The park sits next to a major highway. But the city is now redesigning the space to make...

01.12.2023 5

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This new Manhattan building is designed to flood

Sitting on the waterfront at the northern edge of Manhattan, a recently opened athletic facility for Columbia University is likely to flood in the...

30.11.2023 10

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This is what actually happens at the COP climate summits

When the United Nations held its first annual climate conference in 1995 in Berlin, Michael Jordan was still in the NBA, Google didn’t exist yet,...

29.11.2023 5

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The next big technologies in food and agriculture for 2023

The food system is at a pivotal moment: The agriculture sector has a massive carbon footprint, and the extreme weather caused by climate change is...

28.11.2023 3

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This new geothermal plant in the Nevada desert is helping power Google data centers

In 2020, Google set a goal to get to 24/7 carbon-free energy by the end of the decade, meaning that all of its data centers and offices will run on...

28.11.2023 7

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These massive wind turbine blades are made out of wood

When a wind turbine reaches the end of its life after two or three decades, the giant blades attached to it usually end up in a landfill. That’s...

22.11.2023 10

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Asthma inhalers create a shocking amount of emissions. This major drug company is redesigning them

Climate change is making asthma worse, as hotter temperatures increase ozone pollution and wildfires and make pollen season longer. But asthma,...

21.11.2023 9

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These sleek panels slide onto apartment buildings to make them more energy efficient

The carbon footprint of new buildings keeps shrinking. But most buildings are old—and heating and cooling them is one of the world’s largest...

20.11.2023 7

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These EV chargers are the size of a suitcase and can charge a car in 5 minutes

Inside a parking garage in Manhattan, new EV chargers hanging on the wall are each around the size of a carry-on suitcase. But they’re capable of...

16.11.2023 9

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These photos show what happens when a ‘sustainable’ bioplastic fork is dropped in the ocean

In the summer of 2021, researchers from the nonprofit 5 Gyres carried a crate filled with samples of plastic trash to a dock in Long Beach,...

16.11.2023 10

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Meet the Seattle punk rocker who wants your boss to take action on the climate

Drew Wilkinson never expected to work at Microsoft. For a decade, he’d played in a punk band and worked at small, scrappy environmental nonprofits...

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On’s new running clothes are made from air pollution

Polyester clothing is made in a process that uses ethanol—and that ethanol is normally made from petroleum or gas. But a new line of T-shirts,...

15.11.2023 10

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There are only 7 years left to cut global emissions in half. So far, we’re failing

By 2030, to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, global emissions need to be 43% lower than they were in 2019—a massive drop. That’s...

14.11.2023 4

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These bionic tights make it easier for patients with MS to walk

When his young daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy more than a decade ago, engineer Jeremiah Robison happened to be working on wearable...

13.11.2023 10

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This new satellite can measure CO2 emissions at power plants from space

A new satellite that launched today is the first to be able to accurately measure how much CO2 is being emitted from a specific power plant or...

11.11.2023 4

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In California’s Central Valley, a massive carbon removal factory is pulling CO2 from the air

Across the street from a farm in California’s Central Valley, a gleaming new three-story structure is now quietly pulling CO2 from the air. Run by a...

09.11.2023 3

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These sleek heat pumps can be installed in 30 minutes

If you live in an old-school New York City apartment building with steam heat—and no thermostat to control the temperature—your apartment may get...

09.11.2023 2

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In the Mississippi Valley, these farmers are getting paid to restore 3,000 acres of forest

On a farm growing cotton and corn in Panola County, Mississippi, 680 acres will soon be planted with nearly 300,000 oaks, sycamores, and other native...

08.11.2023 7

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How Mars, maker of M&M’s and Snickers, is radically reimagining its supply chain to end deforestation

As a growing number of people decide to switch careers to work on climate change, we’re running a series of interviews with people in...

06.11.2023 10

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Paradise, California, was destroyed by fire. Here’s what it looks like 5 years later

Five years ago, before the catastrophic Camp Fire burned through Paradise, California, destroying 11,000 homes and killing 85 people, driving through...

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This small Finnish city will be carbon neutral in just a few years

In the U.S., cities like Denver and Austin plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. Seattle and Miami are aiming for 2050. In Finland—where the whole...

31.10.2023 8

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This small Finnish city is a blueprint for going carbon neutral

In the U.S., cities like Denver and Austin plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. Seattle and Miami are aiming for 2050. In Finland—where the whole...

31.10.2023 10

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Why the Nature Conservancy is investing some of its $3 billion endowment in startups

When you think of The Nature Conservancy, you might think of their work protecting forests or helping bring back buffalo to the American West. But the...

30.10.2023 6

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The problem with your cashmere sweater

If you buy a cashmere sweater from Johnstons of Elgin, a 226-year-old Scottish wool mill, you might pay $450. Some other brands charge thousands. But...

26.10.2023 6

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This San Diego church is building its own affordable housing

On a drive to work in San Diego a few years ago, Harvey Vaughn, the pastor at Bethel African Methodist Church, listened to a story on the radio about...

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This tiny electric truck can fit through double doors—but still carries 1,200 pounds

Most American trucks are now enormous, and electric trucks are especially heavy: The Ford F-150 Lightning weighs more than 6,000 pounds, thanks to its...

20.10.2023 5

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What is biochar? Why an ancient farming technique could help fight climate change

On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a...

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How the ‘MBA in One Day’ class sparked a groundbreaking Rwandan school

When he was growing up in a small village in Rwanda in the 1990s, Vital Nsengiyumva didn’t always go to school. If he needed to take care of his...

19.10.2023 7

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In this Stockholm neighborhood, you won’t be able to drive a gas-powered car

By the end of next year, if you want to drive to a central part of Stockholm, you’ll have to have an electric car or another vehicle that meets...

18.10.2023 7

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Will Biden’s new ‘clean’ hydrogen hubs actually be clean?

The $7 billion that the Department of Energy is pouring into seven new hydrogen hubs, called H2Hubs, is intended to “kick-start a national network...

17.10.2023 6

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How REI designed a warehouse where people actually want to work

A typical distribution center is a windowless, harshly lit warehouse, built to prioritize economics rather than the environment or the humans who work...

17.10.2023 5

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How a 100-year-old kidnapping set climate tech back decades

In 1954, Bell Labs created the first commercial silicon solar cell. But more than 40 years earlier, another inventor had launched a business to sell a...

16.10.2023 10

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This inexpensive kit can make your gas car electric

By 2030, most new cars sold globally may be electric. (In Norway, the vast majority already are.) But there will still be more than a billion gas and...

16.10.2023 9

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This startup electrifies individual train cars, so they can drive themselves

11.10.2023 8

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Google launches Flood Hub in the U.S., which predicts when rivers will flood and warns people to evacuate

10.10.2023 30

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These food trucks are ditching noisy, smelly, polluting generators—and going electric

10.10.2023 10

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This simple design turns cardboard into an emergency bed in seconds

It looks like a flattened cardboard box. But with a few folds, a new design transforms into a low-cost bed that can be used at shelters after a...

06.10.2023 6

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Adding coffee grounds to concrete makes it 30% stronger

Every year, the world’s coffee drinkers throw out as much as 60 million tons of coffee grounds—and when they end up in landfills, coffee grounds...

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