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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Now in its first draft, CRS’ Green-e certified fuel certificate standard is focusing initially on RNG, already being produced and sold on a small scale across North America.

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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors

GreenBiz

The French cosmetics manufacturer operates three "dry factories" — in Spain, Russia and Italy — where all the water used in its industrial processes, such as for cleaning and cooling, is purified and reused onsite. In 2000, around 80 percent of Phoenix households had grass; now only 14 percent do. Rising rates.

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

Charged

The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time. market only in a long-wheelbase version, VW of America having decided the standard European model was just too small. built Atlas 3-row SUV, a vehicle large enough that North America will be its single largest market.

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Yellowstone National Park heats up at the fastest rate in 1,250 years

AGreenLiving

The study authors said that their discovery is one of the few tree-ring records dating back over a thousand years in North America. In their quest to learn more about summers in Yellowstone, the researchers found that the park has been through its fair share of periods of considerable cooling and warming over the last millennium.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Now in its first draft, CRS' Green-e certified fuel certificate standard is focusing initially on RNG, already being produced and sold on a small scale across North America.

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Atmospheric Rivers, Floods, And Drought: The Paradox Of California’s Wetter And Drier Climate Future

Energy Innovation

Warmer air can hold more water vapor than cool air, and this study found that as the atmosphere warms, more atmospheric rivers will carry moisture loads that can generate extreme precipitation in the western U.S.—a Zhang, “Human Influence Has Intensified Extreme Precipitation in North America,” PNAS 117, no. 1921628117.

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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors

AGreenLiving

The French cosmetics manufacturer operates three “dry factories” — in Spain, Russia and Italy — where all the water used in its industrial processes, such as for cleaning and cooling, is purified and reused onsite. In 2000, around 80 percent of Phoenix households had grass; now only 14 percent do.