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California approves roadmap for carbon neutrality by 2045

California approves roadmap for carbon neutrality by 2045

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to dramatically reduce dependence on fossil fuels by changing practices in energy, transportation and agriculture, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough to tackle climate change. The plan aims to achieve so-called carbon neutrality by 2045, meaning the state …

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Whales may play important but overlooked role in tackling climate crisis, researchers say |  CNN

Whales may play important but overlooked role in tackling climate crisis, researchers say | CNN

CNN — The largest whales in the world are more than just amazing creatures. Like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing carbon emissions that are warming the planet, researchers say. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & …

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Replay targets genetic brain disorders with new gene therapy company, Kaleibe

Replay targets genetic brain disorders with new gene therapy company, Kaleibe

Replay, a genome-writing company, today announced the launch of Kaleibe, an HSV gene therapy company targeting genetic brain disorders. This is the third of Replay’s product companies to launch since the company’s inception in July and will leverage Replay’s high-carrying herpes simplex virus (HSV) delivery vector, synHSV, to target genetic disorders of the brain. Kaleibe …

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Soul Community Planet adds Costa Rican Wilderness Lodge to its growing collection of SCP Hotels

Soul Community Planet adds Costa Rican Wilderness Lodge to its growing collection of SCP Hotels

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Company creates baby shoes that can dissolve in water

Company creates baby shoes that can dissolve in water

This company has created durable baby shoes that can be dissolved by boiling them in water once your child has outgrown them. Source: Jesse Milliken/YouTube Woolybubs founders Jesse and Megan Milliken started the Portland, Oregon-based company because they felt guilty about how often they threw away clothes that were too big for their three children. …

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'Investment opportunities': Experts say space companies need a boost in Canada

‘Investment opportunities’: Experts say space companies need a boost in Canada

It’s hard to make things work in space, and even harder to make money there. With a long history in the space industry and a handful of healthy companies, Canadians are good at both. But industry executives and experts say the country needs a boost to maintain an edge in a sector poised to soar. …

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A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration declared the northern bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. “White-nose syndrome is decimating cave bat species like the northern myotis at an unprecedented rate,” said Martha Williams, director of …

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Syncona Limited Portfolio Company Extends Tender Offer to Acquire Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation

Syncona Limited Portfolio Company Extends Tender Offer to Acquire Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation

Applied Genetic Technologies Society GAINESVILLE, Fla. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (“AGTC” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AGTC), today announced that a portfolio company of Syncona Limited (LON:SYNC) (“Syncona”) has extended the expiry of its previously announced tender offer to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common …

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SpaceX to launch tomato seeds and other supplies to International Space Station after weather delay |  CNN

SpaceX to launch tomato seeds and other supplies to International Space Station after weather delay | CNN

CNN — SpaceX will attempt to refuel the International Space Station again this weekend after bad weather at the launch site forced the company to abandon its first attempt. The mission is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:20 p.m. ET Saturday. If the weather were to wreck those …

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Fire plan would cut 2.4 million trees from New Jersey’s Pinelands

BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Up to 2.4 million trees would be felled as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure. New Jersey environment officials say the plan to kill trees in a section of Bass River State Forest is designed …

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