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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. million in disaster-related projects. . Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

TechCrunch

At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. In the Accelerator over the Sea. Image Credits: Coral Vita.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

Then came the rise and fall of the SPAC wave and global supply issues. By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. Modsy took a major bottom-line hit on the logistics side during the pandemic as global supply chains ground to a halt. The previous two years were unprecedented in startup land, of course.

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Rocket Report: SpaceX lands in the Bahamas; ULA tests modified booster

Ars Technica

Domestic and global politics have driven nearly all of the US government's decisions on major space issues, most notably President John F. Rocket Lab has not disclosed a projected number of Electron launches for the year beyond estimating it will be more than the 16 Electron missions in 2024. Welcome to Edition 7.32

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