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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. The Climate Foundation is one of several startups growing kelp to remove carbon dioxidefrom the ocean. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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A Look at the Philippines’ Clean Energy Ecosystem

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Tracking Progress—and Opportunity—in Clean Energy Innovation in the Western Pacific Archipelago Nation.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. cancel the launch.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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In Asia, in particular, high temperatures, humidity, solar radiation and the frequency of storms play a major role. Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example. The EMeRGe project receives around €6 million (US$7.4

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. Solar and wind are the easiest to locate, scale, and convert to energy. power generation.