Back in May, Swiss start-up Climeworks unveiled a massive machine that sucks carbon dioxide out of the sky.
Photo by Julia Dunlop/Climeworks.
The idea? To not just slow climate change, but reverse it.
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Volvos.
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Once preferred by sushi-eating, latte-drinking Hollywood-loving elitists, much like sushi, lattes, and Hollywood, they've now gone mainstream. U.S. sales of the Chinese-owned, Swedish-made vehicles grew by 18% last year, thanks to the most American of car models, an SUV (the popular XC90).
It's springtime! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and everyone's ready to clean out their closets.
There's something about warmer weather — it seems to make us want to do a complete makeover on our wardrobes and get rid of clutter around the house.
When it comes to unwanted items, sometimes it just feels good to purge and start fresh. No doubt there have been times when you've thrown things in the trash instead of taking them to a donation center. Perhaps you didn't have the time to drop it off, or you thought it was too far gone to be donated.
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"For the first time in more than a century, no power produced in Scotland will come from burning coal."
That's according to Hugh Finlay, the generation director for energy firm ScottishPower. The company's last coal-burning plant in the country, Longannet power station, closed on March 24, 2016, making Scotland one of the first nations in the world to officially end its reliance on the dirty energy source.
