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Meatball Made With Wooly Mammoth DNA Created by Food Company

Meatball Made With Wooly Mammoth DNA Created by Food Company

The concept of a “mammoth meatball” might conjure up an image of a gigantic meatball at a county fair, but Australian cultured meat company Vow Food — which cultivates meat from animal cells without the slaughter of animals — has produced a meatball that incorporates DNA from the extinct woolly mammoth. The first-ever recreation of […]

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    This Is the Make-or-Break Decade for Climate Action, IPCC Warns

    This Is the Make-or-Break Decade for Climate Action, IPCC Warns

    Decisions made this decade will largely determine whether world leaders can limit global warming to 1.5 or two degrees Celsius of warming below pre-industrial levels and avoid the increasingly more drastic impacts of the climate crisis.  That’s one key takeaway from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report of the findings gathered in […]

    EU Solar Companies Say New Plans to Boost Domestic Products Over Imports Would Hamper Solar Progress

    EU Solar Companies Say New Plans to Boost Domestic Products Over Imports Would Hamper Solar Progress

    European solar companies disapprove of local content rules in the European Commission’s proposed Net Zero Industry Act that effectively limit Chinese imports, saying the rules will make the transition to clean energy more difficult. The rules require governments to reduce public funding and consumer subsidies for renewables projects if companies import a particular product from […]

    Property Values of Homes Near Solar Farms Appraised in New Study

    Property Values of Homes Near Solar Farms Appraised in New Study

    Some opponents to solar farms have argued that they will have a major, negative impact on local property values. A new study, and the largest of its kind, sought out to analyze the true impact that solar farms could have on property values. The researchers found that homes within a 0.5-mile radius of utility-scale farms […]

    Top Apps to Help You Live More Sustainably

    Top Apps to Help You Live More Sustainably

    From finding nearby water bottle refill stations, to calculating your carbon footprint, to connecting with surplus food headed for the landfill, these apps help you live more sustainably.  Tap Have you ever spent the better part of an outing wandering around, looking for somewhere to fill up your reusable water bottle? Or spent money on […]

    Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Could Hurt Renewables

    Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Could Hurt Renewables

    The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is generating questions about the viability of the clean energy companies it financed, as the bank had long been a favorite of renewable startups because of its understanding of the clean tech marketplace and clean tech-focused financing tools.

    Conservation Groups Sue Biden Administration to Stop Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Sensitive Western Arctic

    Conservation Groups Sue Biden Administration to Stop Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Sensitive Western Arctic

    In response to the Biden administration’s approval of the controversial Willow oil project in Alaska’s Western Arctic on March 13, today nonprofit public interest organization Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of conservation groups the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council, […]