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  • Ford leads $11 billion plan for electric vehicle manufacturing

    Axios

    Ford is making a historic investment in electric vehicle manufacturing with an $11.4 billion plan to build a new EV assembly plant and at least three battery factories, employing nearly 11,000 people. Why it matters: The plan is an all-in bet on the biggest transformation of the auto industry since the dawn of the horseless carriage more than a century ago. The big picture: Ford says its plan is the company’s largest single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history and th…

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  • Drones May Help Replant Forests—If Enough Seeds Take Root

    Wired

    A handful of companies are pursuing airborne seeding, but there’s little evidence so far that the tactic will succeed.

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  • The climate crisis has made the idea of a better future impossible to imagine

    The Guardian

    Writing in 2003, the American environmentalist Bill McKibben observed that although “some small percentage” of scientists, diplomats and activists had known for 15 years that the Earth was facing a disastrous change, their knowledge had almost completely failed to alarm anyone else.

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  • Today’s kids will live through three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, study says

    Washington Post

    Published in the journal of Science, the findings quantify the “intergenerational inequality” of climate change.

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  • Research reveals potential of an overlooked climate change solution

    Phys

    Earlier this month, President Biden urged other countries to join the U.S. and European Union in a commitment to slashing methane emissions. Two new Stanford-led studies could help pave the way by laying out a blueprint for coordinating research on methane removal technologies, and modeling how the approach could have an outsized effect on reducing future peak temperatures.

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  • Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.

    Washington Post

    Francis Waskey’s house used to stand four feet above ground on wooden stilts. Now, the mud underneath it has swallowed them whole. As the posts sank over the years into the thawing, carbon-rich frozen soil known as permafrost, Waskey tried propping up the 28-by-36-foot wooden structure with two empty propane tanks, to no avail. The ground shifted so much that the vinyl floor split apart. Nails popped out of the floorboards. The windows shattered, leaving Waskey — a Yupik native who grew up in t…

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  • Lamborghini’s vision for an alternative-fuel future

    TechCrunch

    Car enthusiasts have a history of electric-car hesitancy. While some are fully on board with electrification and hybridization, there are still some petrol holdouts, especially at the rarified and pointy end-of-the-price spectrum like Lamborghini.

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  • IoT technology used to assess usage of London green spaces

    Smart Cities World

    It is one of two pilot projects, funded by Innovate UK, that will see sensors installed in access points to parks and recreational grounds as well as at a disused building for safety purposes.

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  • Phase out of flood insurance subsidies could upend coastal real estate markets

    The Real Deal

    It’s no secret that Americans are willing to pay a premium for property on the beach. They could soon be paying hefty insurance premiums to live there as well.

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  • New York City needs a lot of EV chargers. How can its power grid support them all?

    Canary Media

    For New York City to have any chance of fulfilling its ambitious electric vehicle plans, it’s going to need a lot more EV-charging sites like Revel’s ​“superhub.” Located in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the superhub has 25 fast chargers — the most universally usable high-speed chargers at any single site in the nation, according to Paul Suhey, Revel’s co-founder and head of rideshare and EV.  …

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