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Technology United KingdomExtracting Gold from Electronic Waste Is Getting Easier
The Royal Mint, the United Kingdom’s official coin producer, spent the last two years developing a mysterious technique to extract gold from electronic waste, preventing hundreds of kilograms of gold every year from ending up in landfills.
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Environment The WorldInternational Waters Are Getting the Protection They Need
A coalition of 76 countries and the European Union have taken a crucial step to protecting marine biodiversity in international waters - historically ungoverned and unprotected - by signing the High Sea Treaty as part of the global goal to protect 30% of the planet’s oceans…
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Environment The WorldNew Record Investment Toward Renewables
For the first six months of 2023, some $350 billion has been invested in renewable energy, a 22% rise compared with the same period last year, and an all-time record for any 6-month period, proof that the energy transition to greener sources of energy is scaling…
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Technology USACarbon-Negative Concrete: an Environmental Gamechanger?
In the global race to shrink concrete’s carbon footprint, the most effective solution came from an American winery, an unexpected ally, that produced the very first carbon-negative slab in North America, a solution that could revolutionize completely the highly polluting industry.