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Federal Government Quietly Prepares For Warmer Future, Despite White House Climate...
Mention of man-made climate change is being erased from press releases and reports while agencies continue to research and prepare for a...
The Web Isn’t Working for Women Because of Online Trolls, Skewed...
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says web’s not working for women, citing accessibility issues, online harassment and biased algorithms The issues keep...
Goldman Sachs to Vote Against Boards With No Women; Some Say...
Goldman Sachs Asset Management says they will vote against directors if a company’s board lacks women.The move may have a bigger impact...
Japan’s GPIF, World’s Largest Pension Fund, Joins U.S., U.K. Funds to...
Pension funds representing about $2 trillion in assets under management are committing to sustainability investingThe move brings some of the world’s largest...
U.S. Moves From Hydrogen Laggard to Leader as Los Angeles Unveils...
Los Angeles unveils two-step plan to switch 1,900 megawatts of electricity generated by burning coal to natural gas, then transition to hydrogen.Toyota,...
‘Fast Fashion’ May Go the Way of the Fur Coat as...
Environmental concerns may lead to the decline of “fast-fashion” clothing.EU plans to force textile industry changes that raise the cost of clothing.EU...
Roiling Markets Test Strength of Investors’ Sustainability Commitment
Market gyrations testing investors’ commitment to ESG investingA stock-market rout may be the first critical test for sustainability investors and funds, many...
Elliott, Other Activists Take Page From Big Banks, Demand Target Firms...
Activist investors are now demanding that companies they hold shares in commit to sustainability.More than 90% of millennial investors aim to customize...
Europe Sees Hydrogen as Key to Meeting 2050 Carbon Neutrality Goal
The EU will announce a major push to promote green hydrogen as a replacement for polluting fuels used for transportation and industry.Hydrogen...
California Law on Boardroom Diversity Pays Off in Push for Gender...
California law on female directors seeks to boost equalityDiverse leadership has been shown to help public companies outperformGoldman Sachs, BlackRock are lending...
Is Big Oil Right? Exxon Says Plastic Packaging More Sustainable Than...
While plastic has serious environmental downsides, green alternatives may be worse in some cases.Biodegradable plastics market may reach $6.73 billion in five...
Electric Vehicles Are Bright Spot as Global Automakers Face Dismal Outlook
Electric car production is growing as overall automobile output slips.Vehicle sales are projected to drop in all major markets this year except...
Jury Selection Software Raises New Concerns of AI Racial Discrimination
Momus Analytics jury selection software raises concerns of racial biasStill, benefits of AI are expected to push growth regardless of bias, privacy...
With Wind and Solar Power Exploding, Natural Gas Looking Less Like...
Amid a boom in clean-energy alternatives, investors are rejecting natural gas.The once-hailed bridge from coal-fired generation is being replaced by renewables.Continued use...
Germany Plans to Lead in Hydrogen Tech as Economy Shifts From...
Germany aims to shift to hydrogen from fossil fuelInvestors may see the move as another reason to reconsider fossil-fuel investmentsThe country’s efforts...
A $7 Trillion Question: Will BlackRock Keep Its Green Promises With...
Can BlackRock deliver on its pledge to hold companies accountable on sustainability issues?The $7 trillion asset manager is one of the biggest...
Climate Change May Fuel the No.1 Cause of Infant Deaths in...
The No. 1 cause of infant death in the U.S. — preterm births — may be rising because of the worsening climate...
Coronavirus Denting Supplies of Solar and Wind Parts, Crimping Spread of...
The coronavirus outbreak is slowing the transition to renewable energy as aggressive measures taken by China to slow the spread of the...
Digital Hearts? Researchers Aim to Create Virtual Twins to Monitor Patients’...
Doctors may one day be able to remotely monitor a patient’s heart using software that exactly duplicates the person’s organ — a...
Peak Beef? Beef Output May Be Topping Out, to the Benefit...
Beef production might be approaching its peak, and that’s good news for the environment and climate change.
The 10-year...
Moore’s Law for Medicine? Chinese Firm Offers $100 Gene Sequencing
A new method of sequencing a person’s genome costs only $100, which might lead to a vast increase in personalized medicine and...
MIT’s Crystal Ball Sees Tiny AI, Unhackable Internet, Satellite Constellations Among...
An Internet that’s unhackable, personalized medicine and digital money top the MIT Technology Review’s 2020 list of breakthrough technologies likely to change...
In Year of Declining Investments in Ag & Food Tech, Meat...
Meat alternatives, indoor farming, robotic food delivery and cloud kitchens were last year’s hottest trends among agri-foodtech startups, according to a new...
Apple, Johnson & Johnson to Study Whether Apple Watch Can Curb...
Your Apple Watch may soon be able to save your life.
The devices used for everything from messaging friends...
Social Media for 2: Kushner’s Private App for Supermodel Wife Points...
What if you could have all the advantages of social media but keep your network tiny — to just the person closest...
In Quest for Low Carbon, Northeastern U.S. Might Tap Quebec’s Hydroelectric...
New York and New England might think of the reservoirs and dams that dot Quebec as a giant battery -- energy storage...
EU Cops Seek Union-Wide Face-Recognition Database as Authoritarian Concerns Rise
At least 10 national police forces in the European Union are pushing for an international face-recognition database to help identify criminals, raising...
Salvos of Climate Tweets Sent by Bots May Shape Public Opinion,...
Automated bots generated one-quarter of all tweets about climate change, possibly creating the impression that skepticism about the crisis is more common...
Good Grades: Higher Ed’s ESG Investments Match or Beat Returns of...
Colleges and universities whose endowments have embraced environmental, social, and governance investing and have divested fossil fuel holdings are not “sacrificing financial...
OpenAI’s Holy Grail — to Build a Thinking Machine — Means...
The quest to build a machine that can understand or learn anything that a human can began as a public service at...
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