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Here’s How California Is Protecting Yosemite’s Famous Sequoia Trees From Wildfires
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Here’s How California Is Protecting Yosemite’s Famous Sequoia Trees From Wildfires

"The fire jeopardizes the safety of the hundreds of sequoia trees, some of which are believed to be thousands of years old. Giant sequoias are the biggest trees on earth and native only to California, specifically on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and are listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature."

Beware of Energy Isolationism
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Beware of Energy Isolationism

"The right course of action, and the necessary one, is for policymakers to develop policies that focus on long-term solutions, namely empowering the ability of the industry to respond to market signals by increasing domestic production and refining capacity, thereby bringing stability and relief to consumers."

Why there’s still a rational case for climate optimism
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Why there’s still a rational case for climate optimism

Rick Wayman writes in The Hill that there is still a rational case for climate optimism. buy zovirax online zovirax online generic “The goal of climate restoration is analogous to the goal of net zero emissions, except the time frame is faster, the scale is larger, and the aspiration is higher. It’s not pie in...

Frontier facilitates first carbon removal purchases
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Frontier facilitates first carbon removal purchases

"Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is critical to achieving climate goals, alongside radical emissions reductions. Models project that by 2050 we will need to permanently remove billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year. To date, fewer than 10,000 tons have been removed in total."

VW And Audi To Recycle EV Batteries Through Tesla Cofounder’s Company
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VW And Audi To Recycle EV Batteries Through Tesla Cofounder’s Company

"The global surge in demand for lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars and trucks is stressing the supply chain for internationally sourced commodity minerals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, all of which are trading at or near record-high levels. Currently, lithium costs nearly $75,000 a ton, according to Trading Economics, while nickel runs about $22,000 per ton. Redwood believes large-scale battery recycling infrastructure is the best way to manage tight supplies."

Simplifyber Secures $3.5M Seed Investment to Reinvent How Clothing is Made, with Sustainable, Advanced Manufacturing
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Simplifyber Secures $3.5M Seed Investment to Reinvent How Clothing is Made, with Sustainable, Advanced Manufacturing

"The company has developed a novel approach to clothing and accessory manufacturing that removes traditional spinning, weaving, cutting, and sewing and replaces it with a sustainable, less resource-intensive process, and fully biodegradable solution – cutting out 60% of the steps and reducing the 35% of materials in the fashion supply chain that ends up as waste."

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