Would you eat lab-grown seafood?
A company is developing fish grown in a lab in NC to tackle issues plaguing the fishing industry including environmental contaminants, limited supply, and overfishing.
Read MorePosted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Jan 22, 2024
A company is developing fish grown in a lab in NC to tackle issues plaguing the fishing industry including environmental contaminants, limited supply, and overfishing.
Read MorePosted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Jan 12, 2024
Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a world of possibilities for Earth and the human race. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s...
Read MorePosted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Jan 5, 2024
It is the start of a new year for the human species on Planet Earth. Is this a time for optimism or pessimism? Should we look forward to 2024 with hope or dread?
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 29, 2023
Humanity is considering the possibility of reflecting some of the sun’s rays away from planet Earth so that Earth can cool down. This is a huge decision point in the movie. Is this step drastic? Yes. Is this step fraught with possible side-effects? Yes. But it looks like humanity will have no other choice.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 22, 2023
Humanity has already added something close to two trillion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere via the fossil fuels we have burned in the past. Humanity is currently adding about 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. Each new ton makes our planet a little warmer. We cannot afford to add any more. Here’s why – and examples of what is likely to happen if we don’t.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 8, 2023
The recent RTP Clean Tech Cluster Awards convinced be that our Region continues to make great progress in our sustainable innovation playbook. Let’s take a look.
Read MorePosted by WRAL News | Dec 8, 2023
North Carolina is falling behind other states as solar deployment sees record growth nationwide, according to a new report released Thursday.
Read MorePosted by Jason Parker | Nov 17, 2023
WRAL TechWire columnist Marshall Brain presents a proposal under which North Carolina State could become a ‘perfectly green’ campus.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 15, 2023
Climate tech company Natrx has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research grant to continue development of its remote-sensing technology designed to quantify the economic value of carbon stock in coastal wetlands.
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