Researchers have invented a machine that scans garments, cuts out zippers and buttons with a laser and another that yanks soles off shoes
Category: Energy & Environment
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Climate-neutral ads mislead: Swiss consumer protection agency
Slogans “C02 neutral,” “climate neutral” or “climate positive” are misleading as there is no definitive method to measure climate neutrality
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Trudeau faces backlash over Canada carbon tax exemption
Trudeau faced a growing backlash on Tuesday over exempting home heating oil from the government’s carbon tax
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Construction of controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline complete
Coastal GasLink pipeline will transport natural gas from eastern British Columbia to be liquified and exported near Pacific coast
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Startup to ‘sponge’ CO2 from the atmosphere
Heirloom Carbon’s goal is to remove one billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere per year by 2035 and permanently store that CO2 underground
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Israel-Hamas conflict could lead to oil price spike
Oil prices have already risen six per cent since Israel-Hamas war began. The World Bank says optimistically, prices could rise 3-13 per cent
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Burp tax causes pre-poll stink with New Zealand farmers
New Zealand has a plan to tax farmers for their livestock’s burps and farts — and it’s causing a stink ahead of Saturday’s general elections
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World can’t ‘unplug’ existing energy system: COP28 head
‘We cannot unplug the energy system of today before we build the system of tomorrow. It is not practical or possible,’ says head of COP28 talks
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Energy transition at risk from commodity market fragmentation
Commodities, particularly minerals critical for the green transition, are especially vulnerable to severe geoeconomic fragmentation
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Is planting trees to combat climate change ‘complete nonsense’?
Scientists, conservationists say planting trees is part of the solution, but the No. 1 rule of reforestation is protect what we already have