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The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal
A group of powerful companies on Monday announced a new venture to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Meta, Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify, and McKinsey are pledging together to buy $US925 ($1,284) million worth of carbon removal over the next nine years, a move they say will create a market that will help develop needed…
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Trump Thinks Facebook’s Wipeout Might Have Something to Do With a Little Thing Called TRUTH
Why is Facebook struggling? Clearly, it’s not that the site itself is garbage, or that its parent company Meta’s pivot to the “metaverse” positions its future on a buzzword, or even that it’s racked up enough scandals that it spends more money on lobbyists than Exxon or Phillip Morris.
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1.2 Million Litre Diesel Spill Kills Thousands of Animals in Louisiana
A decades-old pipeline spilled 1,192,404 l (1.2 million litres) of diesel into an environmentally sensitive area in Louisiana last month, killing thousands of animals, the AP reported Thursday. The spill happened a little over a year after a safety inspection found that the pipeline was severely corroded — but the pipeline’s owners chose to delay…
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2021: What the Actual Shit Was That?
Einstein famously established the relativity of time. But even his elegant theory and the refinements that have followed perhaps fail to capture time’s true elasticity. There is no truer test of what we are tentatively calling the Unified Theory of Relativity than 2021, a year where moments stretched and collapsed upon each other and made…