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Flash Drought Hotspots: Southwestern United States

Planet Pulse

To call this swath of North America home is to accommodate water’s ebbs and flows; to live with one eye on reservoir levels and the other scanning the horizon for clouds. But climate change is placing new pressures on this system. And the outlook offers little reassurance.

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How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America eats

GreenBiz

I’ve come to Stone House Farm from Brooklyn to learn more about how regenerative agriculture — the nature-based approach to farming generating all kinds of buzz around its climate mitigation potential — actually works. The marketplace is one of a number of new platforms born in anticipation of huge corporate demand for soil carbon credits.

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From banks to bunds: how Africans are harnessing satellite data to financially derisk pastoral livelihoods

Planet Pulse

Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. You may not be able to see every drop from space, but cumulatively, that captured water added up.

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Why 5G Standalone is a key ingredient in enabling the UK's net zero transition

Business Green

At Vodafone, we believe 5G Standalone (SA) can help mitigate climate-related risk in the UK and accelerate the country's transition to net zero. In areas like energy and food & drink manufacturing , 5G-enabled technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), drones and remote monitoring systems can have a major impact on emissions reduction.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Today, Barudin works on state clean energy policy, collaborating closely with tribal leaders to ensure community buy-in and outcomes that are equitable. I've always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place.

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Green light: Extreme E to race in former Scottish coal mine

Business Green

Opencast coal mine to stage electric off-road rallying series before transformation into pumped hydro storage plant and wind farm Extreme E has this week confirmed the former Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway will host the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button at its Hydro X Prix on 13 and 14 May.

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Removing Barriers to Geothermal Heat Pump Deployment in New York

Energy and Cleantech Council

A great deal of progress has been made in decarbonizing the power sector through deployment of clean electricity generation technologies such as wind and solar. On the federal front, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) has set a goal of powering at least 40 million U.S. homes with renewable geothermal by 2050.