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Verde Resources Invests in Carbon Capture Development Share Article Tapping into potential carbon capture opportunities with the acquisition of BioFraction technology that involves an advanced proprietary, modified catalytic vacuum pyrolysis, and temperature controlled thermochemical process that will convert palm waste into bio-char, bio-oil, bio-syngas and plant natural enzyme (PNE). At Verde, we’re Going Green & Beyond. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (PRWEB) ...

If Biden Were Republican, Press Would Tout Him As ’The New Reagan’ Screenshot from official @POTUS Twitter Viewing the world through the prism of the GOP, Politico announced President Joe Bidens speech to Congress Wednesday night, where he presented a sweeping, optimistic view for Americas rebound from Covid-19, was a big win…for Republicans. Pushing the absurd storyline that Bidens speech hurt him because it highlighted his agenda (hes been trying to keep it hi...

‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence The Nation, in partnership with The Guardian, founded Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaborative aimed at strengthening coverage of the climate emergency. Two years later, Covering Climate Now partners publish coverage of the climate crisis to 2 billion readers.  On this week’s Kicker, Mark Hertsgaard, the executive director of Covering Climate Now and the environment correspondent for The Nation, and Katrina vande...

April 22, 2021 Artist Kenny Altidors memorial portrait of George Floyd painted on a storefront sidewall of a CTown supermarket in Brooklyn, New York. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Guilty, guilty, guilty! The verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis made history—and came only after millions of people took to the streets, for months, in hundreds of cities across America; and only after a decade of sustained organizing by Black Lives Matter. Jody Armour comments—he’s the ...

MORE “Government doesnt have to pick winners and losers, but what it does have to do is lay out policy goals and the rules for the marketplace to follow,” says Mark Hertsgaard. “Instead of incentivizing more destructive behavior by developing more fossil fuels, we incentivize more helpful behavior: making it easier to purchase electric vehicles, for example, or even more importantly, to get to a place where you dont need a vehicle to get around in the first pla...

The Dish: Ron and Clint Howard write about their time as child actors Susie Costaregni FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Ron Howard, a director, producer and actor who lives in Greenwich, at the "Inferno" film premiere on Oct. 25, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Buckner/Rex Shutterstock/Zuma Press/TNS)Buckner /Rex Shutterstock / TNSShow MoreShow Less 2of5 This image released by William Morrow shows cover art for the upcoming memoir "The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family" by Ron Howard and Clint Howard. Its...

How a Texas TV reporter gained the confidence to cover climate change When you’re a local journalist, like me, you become a collector of useful tidbits. A keeper of facts about your community. After a while, you end up knowing a little about a lot. Because of that, when big news happens, local reporters can quickly make sense of what’s happening. But unlike the coverage of breaking news—which we do with ease—providing context for the big, ongoing stories of our time can give us heartbur...

2020 was a challenging year for climate journalism, especially considering the high bar set in 2019. Not only did the quality of climate coverage decrease, but mainstream news outlets perpetuated some of their most egregious practices from years past, such as ceding the narrative to Fox News and failing to consistently connect the science of climate change to extreme weather events. Although some of this decline is likely attributable to COVID-19, even when there was a direct connection between...

Nominated by Sir Jon of Pint O’ Comics. Sir Jon says: 52. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour [1967] Nominated by DJ McKenzie of Splitting Hairs & The Beatles: A Week in the Life. In their new songs, the Beatles continued the studio experimentation that had typified Sgt. Pepper and the psychedelic sound they had introduced in 1966 with Revolver. Author Mark Hertsgaard highlights “I Am the Walrus” as the fulfilment of the band’s “guiding principle” during the sessions – namely ...

Burned all the fossil fuel thats in the ground right now that the planets going to get too hot. and the consequences could be dire. >> so we cant burn it all? >> were not going to be able to burn it all. >> were not going to be able to burn it all. cant burn it all. no one ever says that, at least no u.s. president until now. to forestall really cataclysmic levels of climate change, the necessary follow-through of leaving 2/3 of the earths fossil fuel reserves in the ground would revolutionize g...