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Continue readingThe climate has always been changing, and will always continue to do so. There is a significant movement around climate change, often advocating a reduction of CO2 emissions. While this…
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Continue readingFor years, sustainable investing was viewed with suspicion. Could portfolios that avoided oil and gas companies, tobacco, and other profitable but controversial industries have high enough returns to satisfy investors?…
Continue readingMachine learning has the potential to make some real inroads against our biggest threat: climate change. Some of the biggest names in AI research have laid out a road map suggesting how…
Continue readingBiodegradable ‘plastic’ bags made out of banana plants sounds a bit…bananas, but a couple of UNSW researchers have found a way to do it, and it could solve two industrial waste problems…
Continue readingIt is estimated that close to 14 billion pounds of trash gets dumped into the ocean every year. Sadly, a lot of it is plastic. The water gets polluted, life…
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