Starbucks CEO’s daily jet commute: The carbon footprint will blow your mind

Starbucks CEO’s daily jet commute: The carbon footprint will blow your mind

Starbucks’ newly appointed CEO, Brian Niccol, is set to embark on an extraordinary daily commute that has sparked significant attention due to its environmental implications. Niccol, who resides in Newport Beach, California, will travel approximately 1,600 kilometres to Starbucks’ headquarters in Seattle, Washington, using a corporate jet on a daily basis. This arrangement, outlined in …

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A tool to track cell-to-cell contact

A tool to track cell-to-cell contact

The new uLIPSTIC technology can track the physical interactions between cells, such as the above depiction of a dendritic cell activating a T cell. | Photo Credit: Rockefeller University A fundamental goal of basic biology is understanding how diverse cell types work in concert to form tissues, organs, and organ systems. While recent efforts to …

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Science Notebook | A tool to track cell-to-cell interactions, a synchrotron on solar power, and a galactic emission and the Big Bang

Science Notebook | A tool to track cell-to-cell interactions, a synchrotron on solar power, and a galactic emission and the Big Bang

A fundamental goal of basic biology is understanding how diverse cell types work in concert to form tissues, organs, and organ systems. While recent efforts to catalogue the different cell types in every tissue in human bodies are a step in the right direction, they address only one piece of the puzzle. The big mystery …

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Study links poorly controlled asthma to excessive greenhouse gas emissions

Study links poorly controlled asthma to excessive greenhouse gas emissions

Poorly controlled asthma significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with these patients contributing eight times more excess GHG than those with well-managed asthma, new research has found. In a first-of-its-kind study, the researchers also found that patients with poorly controlled asthma produce the same quantity of GHG as 124,000 homes each year in the …

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Climate change: Scientists explore ‘injecting ice’ to reduce water vapor and cool Earth

Climate change: Scientists explore ‘injecting ice’ to reduce water vapor and cool Earth

Climate Change from Global Warming are not unknown phenomenon. However, a recent study has said a climate intervention strategy focused on decreasing water vapor (WV) concentrations near the tropopause and in the stratosphere could potentially cool down the rapidly heating up Earth. According to a study published in Science Advances, researchers at the National Oceanic …

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Amid criticisms over carbon footprint, Taylor Swift threatens legal action against 21-year-old student Jack Sweeney for tracking her private jets | Hollywood News

Amid criticisms over carbon footprint, Taylor Swift threatens legal action against 21-year-old student Jack Sweeney for tracking her private jets | Hollywood News

Pop icon Taylor Swift, still basking in the glory of her record-breaking 2024 Grammy wins — Album of the Year, scripting history as the first performer to win the award four times — finds herself tangled in a legal battle with an unexpected opponent — University of Central Florida student and 21-year-old tech wizard, Jack …

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses Across U.S. Now Top More Than 1,450

Bicycle Friendly Businesses Across U.S. Now Top More Than 1,450

The League of American Bicyclists honored 34 new and renewing organizations in its latest round of … [+] Bicycle Friendly Business awards. League of American Bicyclists A new crop of businesses nationwide has been recognized for demonstrating commitment and work “to build better places to bike” by making cycling safer, easier and more accessible as …

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