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

Fast Company Tech

That may not sound like much, but a 5-degree rise will affect almost every aspect of human life, in ways both large and small. What will life be like in this much warmer world? I like to think of good analogies, says Luke Jackson , an assistant professor of physical geography at Durham University in the U.K.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. Universities can get stuck into three-year funding cycles,” he told TechCrunch. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”.

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The most innovative companies in corporate social responsibility of 2025

Fast Company Tech

To scale its impact, Six Senses enlisted MBA students from a Swedish university to quantify their plastic usagean eye-popping 5.5 In the Maldives, for example, Six Senses Laamu reduced Styrofoam waste by establishing chicken farms to produce local eggs instead of flying them in in Styrofoam crates. million pieces annually.