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| Jun 16, 2026 | The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere | Last week Elon Musk successfully conned America and U.S. regulators into signing off on his preposterous SpaceX IPO, which immediately generated Musk $75 billion by comically over-stating the value of SpaceX, xAI, and Starlink. Then bone-gr... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Guest article: The future of glyphosate may rest with innovators, not lawyers | Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US.
The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repres... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Scaling out, not up: foodtech leaders rethink growth at Tufts event as capital dries up | In what at times sounded like a group therapy session, foodtech leaders assembled at the Tufts Future of Food Innovation Day in Boston spoke candidly about a “harrowing” year of funding pullbacks, painful pivots, and what comes next.
For Te... |
| Aug 16, 2025 | Leaked MAHA report frustrates food policy experts: ‘Everything is vague and voluntary’ | Back in May, RFK Jr’s MAHA Commission released a report offering a “devastating critique of what American society has done to its kids,” says nutrition expert Prof. Marion Nestle. The follow-up, which was supposed to offer concrete solution... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Breakthrough Institute unveils ‘policy roadmap for American agricultural dominance’ | “Though the US has historically been a global leader in agricultural biotechnology, we are falling behind,” says a new report from environmental think tank The Breakthrough Institute.
“US farm productivity is stagnating, the agricultural tr... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Censoring ‘climate’ in ag research will backfire, warns The Breakthrough Institute | Blocking federal funding for R&D projects mentioning ‘climate change,’ ‘greenhouse gas emissions,’ and related terms “would directly undermine US farmers’ competitiveness and long-term output,” warns a new report from environmental thin... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Op Ed: Stephanie Downs – Why Sustainable Fashion is Turning to Farming for Material Innovation | Stephanie Downs, CEO of UNCAGED Innovations, is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience and a leading expert in animal-free material alternatives for the fashion and automotive industries. In 2020, she co-founded UNCAGED Inno... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Putting RFK Jr at the helm of HHS could ‘wreak havoc on US agriculture,’ warns Breakthrough Institute | Environmental think tank The Breakthrough Institute has urged lawmakers to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of health & human services, warning that “turning back the biotechnology clock on agriculture would lower yields, increa... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Meta's Nuclear Ambition: A Leap into the Unknown | Meta Platforms is stepping into the nuclear arena. The tech giant aims to harness up to 4GW of nuclear energy by the early 2030s. This bold move is designed to power its data centers and fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. But is th... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Meta is going nuclear | Meta Platforms is seeking as much as 4GW of new nuclear energy as the company looks for a reliable electricity source for its data centres.
The Facebook parent is asking developers to submit proposals to deliver between 1GW and 4GW of react... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | IICSR Group proudly presents the IICSR Sustainability Dialogues 2024 to accelerate sustainable development | IICSR Group Logo
IICSR Group proudly presents the IICSR Sustainability Dialogues 2024 to accelerate sustainable development.
The lack of knowledge, processes, and collaborations to achieve sustainable development goals is a hindrance, and w... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | What ADVANCE means for nuclear | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
The Senate is on the brink of passing the ADVANCE Act, but it's not the last word on the nuclear industry's long-sought renaissance.
Why it matters: The bill won't so... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | We won’t decarbonize agriculture without more government support, says Breakthrough Institute | While agriculture is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions, companies seeking to help the sector decarbonize “receive scant support from the federal government,” according to a new report from environmental think tank The Breakthrough ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | The rise of weather-related power outages in California | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Climate Central via U.S. Department of Energy; Note: Major power outages affect at least 50k customers or interrupt service of 300 megawatts or more; Outage events can cross state lines; Map: Ka... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | New Breakthrough Institute Report Details Pathway for Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Improve Public Engagement | |
| Nov 15, 2023 | A small group of farms in California use more water than entire cities, and it's mostly going to a single crop, a new report finds | The Colorado River flows into Lake Mead. George Rose/Contributor/Getty Images
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An investigation from ProPublica and The Desert Sun focused on farmers' water use in California.
They found that 20 farming families used a majority sh... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | A Global Roadmap To Address Anthropogenic Climate Change | 6 Mins Read How can we realistically shift away from animal agriculture, incorporate more plant-based foods in our diet, and ensure policies and funding go towards helping the environment and mitigating climate change? Two researchers put f... |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Oatly Calls for Mandatory Carbon Labelling, Offers ‘Big Dairy’ Free Ad Space to Publish Climate Footprint | 8 Mins Read Oatly is calling on the UK food and drink industry to adopt mandatory carbon labelling on product packaging with a new campaign. As part of this effort, it is offering free ad space to dairy producers, challenging them to publis... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | 100 Billion Animals Are Slaughtered for Meat Every Year – Yet Livestock Farming Doesn’t Get Talked About in Climate Discourse | 8 Mins Read New data shared by Our World in Data shows that approximately 94% of animals on earth live on factory farms and at least 100 billion are slaughtered each year for meat and other animal-derived products. The analysis shows these ... |
| Sep 17, 2023 | Что наука не может сказать об изменении климата | Как "…говорит наука" захватила власть в климатических дискуссиях - и почему она сбила нас с пути
"Наука хороша тем, что она истинна, независимо от того, верите вы в нее или нет". - Нил деГрасс Тайсон. Утешительна мысль о... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | COP28 Will Be First Food-Centric UN Climate Summit with Alt-Protein, Sustainable Diets on the Agenda | 5 Mins Read COP28 made headlines last month when it announced it will serve mostly plant-based food – it signposts the increased focus on food systems at this year’s UN climate summit (November 30 to December 12), in contrast to years past.... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Я убрал из статьи об изменении климата правду, чтобы её опубликовали | Патрик Браун - доктор наук, климатолог, содиректор группы по климату и энергетике в The Breakthrough Institute. В Twitter (или X) @PatrickTBrown31.
Мою статью только что опубликовали в журнале Nature, потому что я придерживался изложения, к... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | From Meat to Plants: Global Diet Shift Can Cut Emissions By a Third and Halt Deforestation | 4 Mins Read Replacing 50% of our meat and dairy intake with plant-based alternatives by 2050 could result in significant climate benefits, reducing agricultural and land-use emissions by 31% and halting the destruction of forest and natural... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Forced Uyghur labor is being used in China's solar panel supply chain, researchers say | The world's biggest solar producers employ forced Uyghur labor, according to new research.
Breakthrough Institute reports Uyghur workers extract and develop raw materials in tough conditions.
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| Nov 29, 2022 | Forced Uyghur labor is being used in China's solar panel supply chain, researchers say | A construction worker walks past solar panels installed in Xinjiang, China. VCG /Getty Images
The world's biggest solar producers employ forced Uyghur labor, according to new research.
Breakthrough Institute reports Uyghur workers extract a... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Now is the best time in human history to be alive (unless you’re an animal) | If you could choose to be alive at any point in human history, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better moment than right now. We’re living longer, richer lives with better access to clean water, education, electricity, and basic human rights... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | NEW REPORT: Advanced Nuclear Technology Will Provide Critical Climate and Energy Benefits to the Future US Clean Energy System | Today, the Breakthrough Institute released a groundbreaking new report detailing how the deployment of advanced nuclear technology will provide clear climate and energy benefits to the US in a transition to a clean energy system.
The report... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | Supreme Court And Carbon Regulation: West Virginia V. EPA Requires Rethinking Climate Activism | WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: Ethan Barragan, Change the Chamber / student activist speaks outside ... [+] the Supreme Court. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for NRDC) Getty Images for NRDC |
| Apr 2, 2022 | Here’s Y Combinator’s answer to cultivated meat’s scaling problem | The positive impact alternative meat products – like plant-based meat or cultivated meat – can have on the environment is striking. In optimistic scenarios where we transition to from meat-laden to plant-based diets over the next 15 years, ... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | For a Clean-Energy Future, We Need Deregulation | In Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, local environmentalists and devotees of the Burning Man festival are using the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to oppose a geothermal energy plant. Further south, the Sierra Club has joined with all-t... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles of 2021 | AFN strives to provide holistic coverage of trends and developments across the agrifoodtech ecosystem; but we on the editorial team wouldn’t be able to do it all by ourselves. We rely on the multitude of expert commentaries, opinion pieces,... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Can California Resurrect Its Lone Nuclear Power Plant Because Of Climate Change? | Diablo Canyon Power Plant is an electricity-generating nuclear power plant at Avila Beach in San ... [+] Luis Obispo County, California. The plant has two pressurized-water nuclear reactors operated by Pacific Gas & Electric. The plant ... |
| Nov 6, 2021 | The obstacles to building our way out of climate change | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Sep 15, 2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: US eyes $7.8bn ag research investment; Spiber, SpotOn & Halter raise | Spiber is valued at $1.22 billion following its latest fundraising round – while SpotOn hit a post-money valuation of $3.15 billion, according to reports.
Elsewhere this week, the US Congress is planning a major spending spree on agricultur... |
| Aug 28, 2021 | How Blue Hydrogen Can Help Decarbonize The Economy | Close-up of logo for industrial gas supplier Linde, with text reading "Hydrogen a Vision Becomes ... [+] Reality" at an experimental consumer hydrogen filling station for fuel cell emission-free cars, in San Ramon, California, Nov... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Don’t blame business for cultivated meat’s cell line shortage. Public funding is the problem | This week, The Guardian‘s sister newspaper The Observer published an article on the issue of limited access to cell lines – one of the essential building blocks for the production of cell-cultured meat.
The article features comments from se... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Как избежать солнечной дефляции — главного фактора, который мешает развитию солнечной энергетики | Некоторые ученые уже несколько лет предупреждали о грядущей фундаментальной проблеме, которая может затормозить развитие солнечной энергетики. В ясные дни фотоэлементы создают слишком много энергии, часто даже больше, чем требуется. Из-за э... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits | Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repres... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | US ag needs more public R&D funding to tackle climate change, says new study | A new working paper from Oakland, California-based environmental think tank The Breakthrough Institute (BTI) argues that US government, univerisites, and other public sector bodies should significantly increase their investments in agricult... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | Fighting climate change in America means changes to America | Climate isn’t the only thing changing.
What comes next in the nation’s struggle to combat global warming will probably transform how Americans drive, where they get their power and other bits of day-to-day life, both quietly and obviously, ... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | The roadmap to the lowest cost grid is paved with distributed solar and storage | For months now we have heard President-elect Joe Biden tout the job and economic growth that would come from transitioning to a clean electric grid. We’ve also heard from critics who say the new clean electric grid he is proposing will cost... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | A Trump Re-election May Cost Us The Climate Fight | 13 1
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The US will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 US election and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher.
It was a balmy June day in 2017 when Donald Trump t... |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Double Downgrade Of Beyond Meat Highlights Uncertainty Of The Plant-Based Market | (Photo Illustration by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Dec 6, 2016 | The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker | Donald Trump's rise to power was driven in part by an apocalyptic narrative according to which, in a phrase, you are in grave danger. This is consistent with many people's intuitions about the world, given the ongoing threat of global terro... |
| Sep 19, 2015 | It’s Raining Donuts, Or, The Limits Of Exponential Decline | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 24, 2015 | An ecomodernist’s manifesto: save wildlife by embracing new tech | Earth is now a human planet. Our species uses of a large proportion of its land-surface area for living space, agriculture and mining. We domesticate and transport a multiplicity of plant and animal species across continents. We sequester a... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Yael Borofsky: new Technically Philly reporter returns to Philadelphia after 2.5 years in Bay Area | Another in the Entrance Exam series, as part of the Why I Love Philly campaign from Young Involved Philadelphia and Indy Hall. Tell the world why you love where you live by tweeting #whyilovephilly.
When it comes to covering a community, it... |
| Climate Crisis Weekly: Plastic Free July — here’s how to do it | The Plastic Free Foundation launched Plastic Free July in 2011. Here’s how you can make a difference permanently.
Think you’re not in a flood zone? Double check with this comprehensive new data website.
Three things we can do to improve res... |
