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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…
Continue readingBut experts warn that without structural change, emissions declines caused by coronavirus could be short-lived as economies get back to normal. * Emissions have to peak in 2020 to hit…
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 readingFrom Swedish teens skipping school to picket their parliament, to protesters dousing Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” sculpture with fake blood, citizens are putting themselves at the forefront of the…
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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