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Fishy business: Rooser raises $23M for its seafood trading platform

TechCrunch

The fishing market globally was worth $253 billion in 2021, and despite the controversy that swirls around the industry, that figure continues to grow. Buyers on the platform can source seafood from 13 different countries, although Iceland, Watt said, is the biggest sourcing country at the moment. ”

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Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2

TechCrunch

The two companies are hoping to prove that Northern Lights facilities combined with Climeworks direct air capture technologies can prove to be a part of a push toward negative emissions technologies that allow companies in non-industrial sectors to become either carbon neutral or carbon negative. Image Credit: Climeworks.

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44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone

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Peridotite is normally found miles below sea level, but on the easternmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, specifically the northern coast of Oman, tectonic action has raised hundreds of square miles of the stuff to the surface. Third is sourcing the CO2 itself. We’ll know more once 44.01 completes its pilot work.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

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It’s always helpful to get inspiration and learn from other organizations in your industry. Following the success of the Penguin of the Month program, we raised the bar higher to engage with our online followers from around the world by giving them the opportunity to vote for their favourite with our Penguin of the Year.

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The best comedies streaming on Netflix right now

Mashable Tech

They play the Icelandic musical duo Fire Saga, who find themselves in the Eurovision spotlight. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Credit: John Wilson / Netflix With its reputation for wacky musical numbers , the Eurovision Song Contest is ripe for parody.

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In Las Vegas, a former SpaceX engineer is pulling CO2 from the air and turning it into concrete

Fast Company Tech

In an industrial park in North Las Vegas, near an Amazon warehouse and a waste storage facility, a new carbon removal plant is beginning to pull CO2 from the air and store it permanently. Called Project Juniper, its the first integrated plant of its kind in the U.S., meaning that it handles both carbon capture and storage in one place. (As

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How Camb.ai is breaking language barriers with AI

Fast Company Tech

has raised $15.5 Thats why weve also put a lot of effort into our capability to translate rare or endangered languages like Icelandic or Indigenous languages like Maleku. The biggest challenge we face is one plaguing the entire AI industry: access to the computing power necessary to continue innovating. million to date.