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Surging Mineral Demand Produces Sharper Focus on ‘Ethical’ Batteries Lithium

Surging Mineral Demand Produces Sharper Focus on ‘Ethical’ Batteries

Julien Harneis/wikimedia commonsBlockchain-enabled transparency, rigorous third-party mining standards, local production, and recycling are among the strategies in play to create batteries that are planet- and people-friendly—a tall order, given that the supply chains supporting the EV revolution remain linked to environmental degradation and human suffering.“By decade’s end the battery market…
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January 30, 2020
New research shows sustainability can be a selling point for new ingredients Water Scarcity

New research shows sustainability can be a selling point for new ingredients

Bambara pods growing in rows. Credit: University of Nottingham The first UK consumer study on the use of Bambara Groundnut as an ingredient in products has shown that sharing information on its sustainable features increased consumers' positive emotional connection to food. Researchers from the University of Nottingham's School of Biosciences…
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January 30, 2020
Wild shooting star seen over California ‘wasn’t a natural fireball’ Space Debris

Wild shooting star seen over California ‘wasn’t a natural fireball’

This zoomed-in look at the reentry of the space debris comes from AMS/AllSky6 camera operator Bob Lunsford. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Some lucky people in California caught sight of an epic fireball streaking across the sky Wednesday night. It lingered, and then broke up into multiple bright pieces.This wasn't…
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January 30, 2020