technology
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Meet 5 tech innovators figuring out how to fix the future
And they don't all live in Silicon Valley, either.
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Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off?
Sci-fi dreams of sucking carbon out of the sky are getting more $$$ than ever.
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Researchers mapped L.A.’s emissions with incredible detail. Is your city next?
A new project shows the emissions from every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area.
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This space-age tech cuts cooling costs — and carbon emissions
The new material's already hard at work cooling ice cream and office buildings, and it's doing it with a lot less electricity than traditional AC.
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How rising seas could cause your next internet outage
Not even the internet is safe from climate change.
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Wizards and prophets face off to save the planet
Charles C. Mann surveys the argument over how to rescue humanity from itself.
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Techies and tractors: Silicon Valley’s next big thing is saving water
In a climate-changed world, entreprenuers and farmers are coming together to confront scarcity.
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How do we get off fossil fuels when we’ve always feared change?
People generally oppose anything that feels too new, which is a problem in a world that needs a lot of innovation.
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Americans love genetically modified mosquitoes much more than other GMOs
Why do Americans embrace some GMOs but reject others?