Bill Gates just released a plan for US leadership on climate change, including B in funding Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men and most prolific philanthropists, has just released a broad new plan on how the U.S. could take the lead in the fight against […]

Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener Using tricked-out drones, scientists are watching vegetation boom in the far north. Their findings could have big implications for the whole planet. Source: www.wired.com Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener

Australia’s Koalas Are ‘Sliding Towards Extinction’ The species is among 28 animals being assessed for potential upgrade of their threat status as their numbers plummet following sweeping bushfires. Source: www.wired.com Australia’s Koalas Are ‘Sliding Towards Extinction’

What’s Causing the Mass Bird Die-Off in the Southwest? Thousands of migrating birds have died, perhaps starved by drier conditions related to climate change or by having to fly inland to avoid wildfire smoke. Source: www.wired.com What’s Causing the Mass Bird Die-Off in the Southwest?

Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030 Even as Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, admits that climate change “is real” and that “the science is unambiguous and the need to act grows more urgent by the day” the platform appears unwilling […]

Cities are wrestling with a potential new exodus in the COVID-19 era, but Urban-X still believes in their future Embodying the tensions that cities across the world face as they wrestle with controlling a pandemic in dense, urban environments, Urban-X, the accelerator for technology startups focused on the problems cities face, has […]

North Carolina-based The Climate Service raises .8 million for climate audits With corporations across the world taking a closer look at the effects their operations have on global climate change, investors are backing a crop of software and services that are cropping up to pull back the curtain on those climate impacts. […]

ClimateView raises .5 million for its toolkit to visualize climate mitigation plans ClimateView, a Swedish software development company working on monitoring and visualization tools for greenhouse gas emissions, said it has raised $2.5 million in its latest round of financing. While the world is gripped by the material and economic toll of […]

It looks like Brandon Middaugh is heading up the B Microsoft climate fund Earlier this year, Microsoft made waves in the corporate community by coming out with one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging strategies to reduce carbon emissions from the company’s operations. Part of that plan was a $1 billion fund […]

Zume co-founder goes from pizza to climate-friendly food with .7 million in funding Before leaving SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza in November 2018, co-founder Julia Collins knew what her next move would be: climate-friendly food. Today, Collins is announcing Planet FWD’s  $2.7 million seed round led by BBG Ventures with participation from Cleo Capital, […]