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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

With the increasing growth in mass production, industries expanding to low cost production sites in Asia, fuelling on coal and the pollution from transport, the problem continues to grow. They seek to solve it with a combination of Internet of Things (IoT) and plants, providing clean and cool air to hot urban cities.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Before turning to genetic engineering, the foundation tried unsuccessfully to breed a hybrid chestnut that looked and grew like an American chestnut but had genes from species native to Asia that gave it blight resistance.