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Google Spinout Dandelion Energy Ramps Up Home Geothermal Installations

GreenTechMedia

It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. In the winter, installations pump heat from deep underground to warm the house, cutting the need for heating fuel.

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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

AGreenLiving

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. The rainforest’s canopy, for example, regulates temperature, cooling the atmosphere. That is a land size equivalent to 10.3

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Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.

Grist

A report out last Thursday found that the understudied cooling effects of trees — like their role in the water cycle and the compounds they emit — have kept the planet half a degree Celsius cooler, not even accounting for the carbon dioxide they capture. up for a global effort to plant 1 trillion trees. It all comes down to trade-offs.