What to Do the Next Time the Power Goes Out
Knowing what to do if the power goes out is becoming more important as extreme cold events in Texas, tropical storms in California, floods and storms in Michigan, and heat waves in most of the U.S. be...
Knowing what to do if the power goes out is becoming more important as extreme cold events in Texas, tropical storms in California, floods and storms in Michigan, and heat waves in most of the U.S. be...
Will Knight[photo1]If you haven't already, go and read the WIRED feature article "A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath Your Feet," which details the quest to tap into geothermal energ...
Most of us have heard of carbon offsets by now. However, the average person perhaps doesn't give them much thought beyond when prompted by an airline to "offset the CO2 of your journey" (for a suspici...
Positive Ventures, a Sao Paulo-based venture capital firm, secured $25 million in capital commitments for its impact fund. This represents a tripling of its previous fund, raised three years ago.The f...
A new California-based startup is trying to take on climate change by simultaneously taking carbon dioxide out of the ocean and air while creating hydrogen as an alternative fuel. Boeing has already i...
[photo1]Delta Airlines is a big player in the American airline industry. They pride themselves on being more than the company you use when you want to head to Miami for a break from the day-to-day -- ...
Few fields are changing as quickly as climate tech. In the last five years, it's undergone a radical transformation, blossoming from a niche area to a broad sector full of promising niches. With that ...
Baking soda--more formally known as sodium bicarbonate--has a lot of uses beyond just baking, from cleaning various surfaces, soothing your heartburn, to even browning your meat better. In addition to...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed an 'artificial leaf' that uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. These so-called 'drop-in' fuels can d...
Sustainability has become a major trend across different industries, and tourism isn't an exception. In fact, 83% of leisure and business travellers worldwide believe that sustainable travel is vital....
Here's the problem: the planet is burning, and there's not much we can do about it.Forests are in peril not just because of the ravages of climate change, but because the industries that support them ...
Early in the pandemic, as people were desperately searching for toilet paper, I was whining about a far less critical asset: SodaStream canisters. They'd become impossible to source, and the bubbly li...
Not everyone is a fan of the rustic look of moss growing on their driveway, sidewalk, or patio. But, appearance aside, it's a safety hazard. When moss covers materials like concrete, brick, wood, and ...
An audacious new effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the Pacific Ocean as a way to fight climate change is being backed by fossil fuel giants and Big Tech. But the nascent technology, called "direct ...
Swedish startup H2 Green Steel has announced its plans to raise more than EUR1.5bn in equity funding to build steel plants that emit virtually no emissions.The startup, backed by high-profile investor...
Woodoo, a startup working on alternative materials for various industries, has raised $31 million. The company is manufacturing composite materials based on wood so that they can replace common materi...
Device42, a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer's hardware and software usage. The company decided to use t...
Formula 1 might be a sport, but it's also a $2.6 billion business with shareholders, and like pretty much every other multibillion-dollar business with shareholders, that means it's under increasing s...
There's a scramble in the US to build the first generation of technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And the first American company with this kind of system, Global Thermostat, jus...
Shuttlers, a Nigerian shared mobility company that allows individual and corporate passengers to take rides on multiple bus routes via an app, has raised $4 million in a new funding round led by Verod...