Sustainable Brands For Scope 3 to be monitored successfully, Scope 1 and 2 emissions reporting must be mandated across all businesses and suppliers, no matter their size. Scope 3 inventories have become an essential tool for organisations that are looking to take meaningful action to improve the environmental impact of their …
The future of data centers — on land, at sea, and in space
By Kristin Houser, Freethink We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them. It’s 2035. Global electricity demand has skyrocketed, driven in large part by the data centers that support our digital world. Rather than worsening climate change, though, these power-hungry facilities are …
This startup is making natural gas from sunlight, water, and air
By Kristin Houser, Freethink Terraform wants to stop climate change by replacing fossil fuels with “air fuels.” A California startup is using sunlight, water, and air to create synthetic natural gas — eliminating the need to pull it from the ground and release additional greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Synthetic …
A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants
By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change. Ida Cecilie Jensen The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of …
These nearly silent wind turbines have owl-inspired ‘feathers’
By Adele Peters, Fast Company Noise from wind turbines limits where they can be built. But a design that mimics the shape of owl feathers can make wind farms quieter and help renewable energy grow faster. [Photos: Michael J. Cohen/Getty Images, Khoa Nguyen/Getty Images] On a recent winter day on …
Using AI to talk to animals
By Ina Fried, Axios Researchers are building an AI system that they hope will, one day, allow humans to understand the many languages that animals use to communicate with one another. Why it matters: Understanding what animals are saying could not only aid human knowledge of our world, but advocates say might provide …
Geothermal shows massive untapped potential in new analysis
By Ben Geman, Axios Geothermal could meet up to 15% of global power demand growth through 2050 — but a lot has to break right, a new analysis finds. Why it matters: Decarbonizing power and heat requires lots of tools, and the International Energy Agency’s new report offers a pathway for geothermal to shed …
Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of microplastics, scientists say
By Tom Perkins, The Guardian Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable. A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous …
New methane monitoring AI tool unveiled
By Andrew Freedman, Axios Environmental intelligence firm Kayrros is rolling out a large language model (LLM) to allow the public to pinpoint methane-emitting facilities, the company first told Axios. Why it matters: The new “methane GPT” allows users to ask plain-language questions and get answers from the company’s Methane Watch map for free. …
NASA Scanners Detect Hidden Base Under Arctic Ice
By Victor Tangermann, Futurism We didn’t know what it was at first.” Under the Ice NASA scientists collected some marvelous readings while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland during an April 2024 survey. The radar instrument onboard NASA’s Gulfstream III aircraft spotted an abandoned “city under the ice“: a relic …