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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? https://t.co/ohB2sDNBjV
theguardian.com
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating
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This hidden Icelandic carbon plant could help win the war on climate change
sciencefocus.com
A huge new carbon capture facility has opened in Iceland. But will this technology help reduce the amount of carbon in our atmosphere?
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Grinding up the vast amounts of waste concrete around the world and spreading it on fields could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
newscientist.com
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland
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DOE Announces $42 Million for Inertial Fusion Hubs
energy.gov
Funding Supports Three Hubs to Build on DOE’s Groundbreaking Work in Fusion, Including Last Year’s Successful Ignition
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Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy
futurism.com
Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge gravity battery facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, China, CNET reports.
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Biden proposes stricter limits on toxic wastewater from coal plants @CNBC
cnbc.com
The proposal comes after the Trump administration weakened regulations that required coal plants to treat polluted wastewater with modern filtration methods.
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Uncle Sam Wants You To Recycle The Dead Cellphones And Laptops In Your Junk Drawer
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Why Hoarding Electronics Is So Bad for the Environment | Time
time.com
We're terrible at disposing of broken and obsolete electronics. Those hoarding habits are worsening climate damage.
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Whitest paint in world created at Purdue, may help curb global warming
usatoday.com
The world's whitest paint has been created in a lab at Purdue, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce the need for air conditioning.
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World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian
theguardian.com
Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised
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Massive Attack Reveal Plan To Reduce Emissions Across Music Industry
udiscovermusic.com
Massive Attack have revealed a wide-ranging and expansive plan to reduce carbon emissions across the music industry to help offset climate change.
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Climeworks is opening the world's biggest carbon removal machine — Quartz
qz.com
We have to start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to have any chance of averting the worst impacts of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last month.
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Massive new housing community will have no carbon footprint, developer says @CNBC
cnbc.com
More than 21,000 homes are going up in a new community that its developer says will be the largest net-zero development in the nation.
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Bill Gates: Forget the climate policy tweaks and go for the big stuff https://t.co/JeCZOSfr0k via @politico
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