Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-removal-cur8-gabrielle-walker-credits-offsets-greenwashing/
A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries
Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That’s just the beginning of its small-screen plans.
https://www.wired.com/story/colossal-biosciences-james-reed-documentary/
Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-removal-cur8-gabrielle-walker-credits-offsets-greenwashing/
Measles Strikes a Florida Elementary School With Over 100 Unvaccinated Kids
Nearly 11 percent of the students aren't fully immunized, prompting concerns of broader infection.
https://www.wired.com/story/measles-school-unvaccinated-florida/
Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
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It’s a multibillion-dollar global problem, and in a rapidly electrifying world, the profits—and ease—of stealing metals are only going to increase.
https://www.wired.com/story/metal-theft-epidemic-copper-steel/
The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
Hydrogen-powered planes, more fuel-efficient aircraft designs, and all-electric parcel delivery services are just some of the ways in which the transport sector is looking to decarbonize.
https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-transport-flying-deliveries-hydrogen-electrification/
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-just-proved-how-spongy-a-city-can-be/
Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment
Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa, CTO of Greenpeace, says technology firms must shape up—and consumers and business clients should walk away if they don’t.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-environment-greenpeace-social/
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-just-proved-how-spongy-a-city-can-be/
Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment
Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa, CTO of Greenpeace, says technology firms must shape up—and consumers and business clients should walk away if they don’t.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-environment-greenpeace-social/
Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-artificial-intelligence-chess/
All That Rain Is Driving Up Cases of a Deadly Fungal Disease in California
Valley fever is thriving as California swings widely between drought and flooding.
Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
Millions of Ukrainians are suffering the mental health implications of two years of Russian bombs and shells. The country’s recovery depends on building systems to help treat the trauma.
https://www.wired.com/story/kyiv-tech-trauma-war-ptsd-mental-health-bloomberg-ukraine/
Ocean Temperatures Keep Shattering Records—and Stunning Scientists
Sea surface temperatures have been skyrocketing beyond expectations. That may be a bad sign for hurricane season—and the health of ocean ecosystems.
https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-temperatures-keep-shattering-records-and-stunning-scientists/
Fake Caviar Invented in the 1930s Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution
An alternative to environmentally-harmful plastic is already within reach: seaweed.
https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-pollution-packaging-notpla/
Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant.
https://www.wired.com/story/upside-foods-glenview-illinois-factory-lab-grown-meat/
The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps
The US Department of Energy is announcing another $63 million to supercharge domestic manufacturing of the devices—in the name of national, energy, and climate security.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-feds-just-bet-even-bigger-on-american-made-heat-pumps/
A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
Viruses called phages are a promising treatment option for bacterial infections when antibiotics stop working, but they have limitations.
https://www.wired.com/story/phage-therapy-bacteria-zombie-pittsburgh/
Smoking Alters Your Immune System For Years After You Quit
Cigarettes may shape your immune system just as much as aging, and appear to have a long-lasting effect by switching on and turning off genes.
https://www.wired.com/story/smoking-immune-system-long-lasting-effects/
Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
Farmers and scientists are getting better at growing more crops on less land, but they’re not focusing on plants that people eat.