The Great Salt Lake is drying up. Since the mid-1980s, the lake has dropped 22 feet, and its surface area is 60 percent smaller than it once was. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider this: it takes 12 minutes and 13 seconds to walk from where the lake’s shoreline once was to where it is today.
CryoBio raises $1.3m in pre-seed funding to fight frost with biologicals
Read more in AgTechNavigator here.
Ex-Tesla Energy Chief Raises $230 Million for Battery Startup
Bloomberg reporter Coco Liu writes on the fast-growing home battery market as grid strain pushes storage into the mainstream. Read more on the startup in Bloomberg here.
The AI boom is making natural gas great again
Axios reporter Amy Harder writes on how the AI boom is reshaping the energy mix. Read more in Axios here.
Removing livestock from grasslands could compromise long-term soil carbon storage
Researchers at the University of Manchester are pushing back on the idea that removing livestock from grasslands is always a climate win. Read more in Phys.org here
A startup falsely blamed for triggering floods pitches cloud seeding to lawmakers
Politico reporters Timothy Cama and Kevin Bogardus write about cloud seeding company Rainmaker Technology. Read more in Politico here.
US Startup Raises $140 Million To Boost Production Of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Fuel
NucNet’s David Dalton reports on a major funding round aimed at strengthening the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain as demand for advanced reactors accelerates. Read more in NucNet here.
Rethinking sustainability: The untold benefits of cattle ranching in the American West
Read the full piece here in The Washington Post.









