Nearly two and a half years after becoming the first country to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, El Salvador has won an international award for its ambitious and environmentally friendly Bitcoin C...
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LG’s $4.4B Battery Plant, Taming Volcanic Brine And More Fuel Cells For Trucks
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Corbis via Getty Images Last weekend, I r...
California’s Lithium Rush For EV Batteries Hinges On Taming Toxic, Volcanic Brine
The southeast tip of California’s Salton Sea is home to 11 geothermal power plants that turn hot volcanic brine into clean electricity. Getty Images The Salton Sea region has one of the world’s ...
More Than $40,000 in Bitcoin Donations Towards Tonga, after Catastrophic Volcanic Eruption
The Bitcoin (BTC) community is taking part in a noble cause of helping Tonga recover from a disastrous volcanic eruption that hit the nation on January 15. Within just three days of going live, the ...
‘Alarming’ Damage Reported As International Aid Efforts Are Hampered By Volcanic Ash
Topline Reconnaissance images revealed extensive damages suffered by Tonga’s outer islands from Saturday’s massive undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami, raising fears of unreported deaths and injuri...
Volcanic Eruptions Can Cool The Climate, But Hunga-Tonga Won’t
June 1991: a giant mushroom cloud of steam and ash exploding out of Mount Pinatubo volcano during … [+] its eruption. AFP via Getty Images The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai vol...