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The secret to a better grid? Electric vehicles.

You can’t tell when you’re passing one on the highway, but an electric vehicle may well have a superpower. It charges by plugging into...

Rio Tinto Signs Deal to Replace Coal in Refineries with “Bio Pellets”

Global mining and metals company Rio Tinto announced today that it has signed a five-year offtake agreement with renewable biomass charcoal company SuperChar for...

Asuene Acquires Supply Chain Carbon Management Platform Secaro

Tokyo-based sustainability solutions provider Asuene announced today the acquisition of supply chain carbon management platform Secaro for approximately $37 million, in a deal described...

BlackRock, Temasek’s Decarbonization Partners Leads $87 Million Round in Sustainability Solutions Provider Asuene

Tokyo-based sustainability solutions platform Asuene announced that it has raised $87 million in a Series D funding round led by BlackRock and Temasek’ joint...

Lower injury rates must not mask fatal risks, warns offshore contractors’ trade body

Improving injury rates are masking the continued threat of fatal accidents across the offshore marine contracting industry, according to the International Marine Contractors Association...

After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel

Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain...

Study reveals unseen benefits of furniture reuse in the circular economy

A new study appears to confirm the unseen benefits of furniture reuse, and that these go beyond simply helping the environment. The work was...

Brookfield Acquires Battery Storage Giant Aypa from BlackStone

Brookfield Asset Management announced today an agreement to acquire Aypa Power, the largest standalone battery storage developer in North America, from Blackstone, in a deal...

Are firms ready for Simpler Recycling?

More than a year after Simpler Recycling rules first came into force,1 murmurings from the waste sector suggest many organisations are still grappling with...

How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom

When Min left the hot, dusty plains of central Myanmar for its mountainous eastern border with China earlier this year, he had few options....

The deadly experiment that could save the American elm

After more than a decade of nurturing, it had come time to infect this 28-acre grove of American elms with a disease that would...

The year climate change came for the Tour de France

Tadej Pogačar is expected to ride to victory on the Champs-Élysées in Paris when the Tour de France ends Sunday. While his commanding performance...

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