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        <title><![CDATA[William Ralston - Freelance Contributor]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The War on Wildfires Is Going High-Tech]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Startups are using everything from chemistry to satellites and artificial intelligence to detect and prevent fires turbocharged by global warming.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fake Indian Cricket League Created for Real Online Betting]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A shopkeeper in rural Gujarat persuaded some farmers to play in a tournament with manipulated outcomes. The scam traced all the way to Russia.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Sewage Is Helping Along the Energy Transition]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cities, utilities and buildings are increasingly turning to some unlikely renewables to reduce fossil fuel emissions.  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In pipes and sewers, wastewater can maintain a temperature of between 50℉ and 68℉ even in the coldest months. That means energy.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Struggle to Electrify One of the World’s Dirtiest Industries]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Construction, like air travel and ocean shipping, is one of the more intractable obstacles to a green transition. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Fog surrounds cranes on a Norwegian building site. Construction, across its entire supply chain, is responsible for around 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Global Shipping Industry Can’t Clean Up Its Act]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Both old and new strategies to cut emissions are being tried, but they barely touch the dirty truth at the heart of ocean transport.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/why-the-global-container-shipping-industry-can-t-clean-up-its-act</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How an Industry Built on Pollution Is Getting a Tiny Bit Greener—and Faster]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There’s a hi-tech effort to cut small amounts of emissions and delays from air travel. It could be better than nothing, or it might make matters worse.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An Airbus SE A380-800 Emirates plane passes approach lighting at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, July 22, 2019. In 2018, 49.5 million passengers traveled through Pearson on 473,000 flights.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World’s Roads Aren’t Ready for a Hotter Climate]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Global warming is damaging the vast web of asphalt and concrete we use to move around. Fixing the problem won’t be cheap.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 08:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>As average temperatures rise and heat waves become more frequent and intense, it’s become clear that infrastructure and in particular roads are vulnerable to accelerating global warming.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fearful local officials are hiring companies touting forecasts down to the minute and the city block. But not everyone is convinced.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/weather-forecast-startups-see-riches-as-more-turbocharged-storms-loom</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A sanitation truck drives through a flooded street in Hoboken the morning after remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area in 2021.</media:description>
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