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How to Launch a Satellite During a Blackout

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 29 January 202012 December 2022

PG&E shut down the power to Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory right before a satellite launch.

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Profits for the Planet

Korena Di Roma Howley, Science Writer by Korena Di Roma Howley 29 January 20204 February 2022

Entrepreneurs are addressing global challenges with science-based—and financially sustainable—solutions.

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First U.S. Airline Goes Carbon Neutral

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 9 January 20202 November 2021

JetBlue will buy carbon offsets for all domestic flights starting in July, but are carbon offsets enough to clean up a dirty industry?

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Integrating Input to Forge Ahead in Geothermal Research

by R. Rozansky and A. McKittrick 3 January 20205 January 2022

A road map for a major geothermal energy development initiative determines proposed priorities and goals by integrating input from stakeholders, data, and technological assessments.

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Industry Leaders Dominate Trump’s Science and Tech Advisory Council

by Randy Showstack 23 October 201920 January 2023

The council’s launch, more than 2 and a half years into the Trump presidency, has an initial membership that is heavy on industry, with just one academic and no representatives from civil society.

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The Coming Surge of Rocket Emissions

by M. N. Ross and D. W. Toohey 24 September 201924 October 2022

With the space industry’s rapid growth, rocket exhaust will increasingly accumulate in the atmosphere. How this accumulation might affect the planet is unknown—because we’re not taking it seriously.

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Meteotsunami Spotted for the First Time in the Persian Gulf

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 31 July 201917 May 2022

The Persian Gulf, a region with high-end resorts and oil-related infrastructure dotting its shorelines, was hit in 2017 by weather-induced waves that rolled roughly a kilometer inland.

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Bitcoin’s Not-So-Carbon-Friendly Footprint

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 18 July 20194 February 2022

New research finds that verifying cryptocurrency produces about the same amount of carbon emissions as the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Senator Urges Ending Dark Money’s Stifling of Climate Action

by Randy Showstack 20 June 201921 December 2022

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says that dark money funding from the fossil fuel industry and others “has polluted our politics.” Dark money and climate denial “are two sides of the same coin,” he says.

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Underground Robots: How Robotics Is Changing the Mining Industry

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 13 May 201928 July 2022

From exploring flooded sites to providing alerts, use of robotics aims to “increase the arsenal of tools that can help miners work more safely and efficiently.”

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