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Share this article FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  TAE Technologies, the world's largest private fusion energy company, has announced a landmark fusion technology milestone by producing stable plasma at 50M+ degrees Celsius in a proprietary compact reactor design that can scale to competitive fusion-generated power. This milestone furthers confidence in TAE's path to commercialization, and has aided the company in raising $280M in additional funding. When combined with prior rounds, TAE has now raised over $880M from some of the world's most sophisticated investors. F...

by Laura Petersen Jos Barlow, Ph.D. Image by Flavio Forner. Conservation scientist Jos Barlow landed in Santarém, a small city on the Amazon River in northern Brazil, for annual fieldwork researching biodiversity and ecosystem services. It was November 2015 and large swaths of forest were on fire. “Normally, you get off the plane, and you are hit by this wall of heat and humidity, but this time, you got off the plane, it was acrid smoke burning the back of your throat,” says Barlow. “The whole region was under a pall of smoke.” A professor of conservation science at Lancast...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS or PFOS, have been a key ingredient in numerous industrial and consumer products for decades. These man-made chemicals are prevalent and are also known for their longevity in the environment. More recently, PFAS have been the focus of thousands of lawsuits alleging personal injury and property damage. Some insurers have already questioned whether PFAS could rival asbestos in scope and bottom-line impacts. It is a legacy that confronts manufacturers and other...

On Health Image by Katja Just from Pixabay Many millennia from now, when humans are long vanished from the Earth, intergalactic travelers visiting our planet may wonder about this world’s ancient inhabitants and their civilizations. One clue these visitors will be able to use in their investigations will be the presence of a class of manmade chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Dubbed “forever chemicals,” PFASs will likely outlast humanity. PFASs have a wide range of uses thanks to their unique physico-chemical properties. They can be found in stain resistant t...

One Way or Another, Everything Changes The following is excerpted from “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Most projections of climate change presume that future changes—greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea level rise—will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of temperature increase that will lead to a given amount of smooth incremental sea level rise. However...