Climate Technology
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![Collage: picture of shrubs on top of picture of cobalt mine]()
![Collage: picture of shrubs on top of picture of cobalt mine]()
Scientists are mining metals from an unusual source — plants
Scientists are starting to mine valuable metals from an unusual source: plants
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Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers.
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A different kind of solar technology is poised to go big
Silicon is facing bottlenecks and trade sanctions. Is this cadmium telluride's moment?
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How Tesla shows Obama’s green loan program was a success
Republicans claimed Solyndra and the government's green loan program was a failure. Ten years later, what did the loan program really cost?
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A massive water recycling proposal could help ease drought
Members of Congress from Western states are pushing for $750 million to turn wastewater into pure water. Here’s how that works.
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![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?
Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.
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Bo Burnham is not joking about the climate apocalypse
“The planet’s heating up. What the f*** is going on?”
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![Collage: Front page of the New York Times with multiple hands on top of it]()
![Collage: Front page of the New York Times with multiple hands on top of it]()
Think climate change isn’t ‘click-worthy’? These bots disagree.
Two artists and their army of ad-clicking bots are taking a stand.
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![Collage: Pieces of a broken smartphone put together with pieces of a new smartphone]()
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Electronic waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons
"It is a reduction, though it is not good for the world."
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The Department of Energy is trying to make clean hydrogen this generation’s ‘moonshot’
New "Energy Earthshots" initiative aims to make clean hydrogen cheap.
