In a bizarre yet innovative move, Australian cultivated meat company Vow has created lab-grown mammoth meatballs. The company's aim is to raise awareness of lab-grown meat as a tasty, cruelty-free, and environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional meat sources. Because who wouldn't want a bite of the Ice Age, right? Vow's choice...
Cities and towns across Europe have started embracing free public transport to cope with the ongoing fuel price crisis and reduce carbon emissions. * Germany’s Bundestag recently adopted a discounted monthly transportation pass, allowing passengers to use regional public transport for €9 per month in June, July, and August. * Luxembourg...
Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have developed a clay compound that can reduce the destructive effects of climate change by preventing large amounts of methane from making it into the atmosphere. The miracle compound is basically cat litter soaked in a copper solution, as if the internet needed...
New York-based Aether [https://aetherdiamonds.com/] is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) startup that makes lab-grown diamonds from carbon recaptured from the atmosphere. While it sounds straight out of sci-fi, the company already began shipping products to customers in the middle of 2021 and claims that it has produced “hundreds” of carats...
Researchers at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila) in Quebec have developed an AI-driven tool, “This Climate Does Not Exist,” that can visualize the future impacts of climate change anywhere on the planet. The tool uses a machine learning (ML) framework called generative adversarial networks (GANs) to re-create Google...
The world’s first fully electric autonomous cargo ship, the Yara Birkelandis preparing to set sail in Norway by the end of this year. The ship, developed by Norwegian chemical company Yara, runs on hydroelectric power and significantly reduces costs and carbon emissions. The global shipping industry accounts for about...
