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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.

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Americana’s chip turns physical objects into NFTs

TechCrunch

The startup’s core product is its NFTA Universal Chip, which can be attached to a physical object and links that object to the blockchain. Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance. The traditional art world provides a useful example, Frey said.

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

Fast Company Tech

I like to think of good analogies, says Luke Jackson , an assistant professor of physical geography at Durham University in the U.K. Its not only crops and livestock that are affected, says Gerald Nelson, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigns College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences.

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Go read this Daily Beast story about Sergey Brin’s secret disaster relief team

The Verge

The story opens detailing how GSD provided disaster relief in the form of medical care and road-clearing crews after Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last year. The Daily Beast ’s Mark Harris has a wild story about Global Support and Development (GSD), a disaster charity founded by Sergey Brin that’s being run by his former bodyguards.