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How a Caribbean community restored its ailing mangroves

When a pristine Caribbean mangrove was decimated by a tourism project, locals on Union Island found a way restore it to its former glory

How waste food can reduce our reliance on natural gas

After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off

Numerous companies are developing technologies, such as large kites, that can harvest wind energy up to a half-mile above ground. While still in its nascent stages, airborne wind power could potentially be used in remote locations or flying from barges far offshore.

Google parent company s balloon-based internet plan pops

Google parent company s balloon-based internet plan pops Tyler Van Dyke © Provided by Washington Examiner Google s parent company is letting the air out on a project to provide more remote areas with internet access using massive balloons after the project was unable to reduce its sky-high costs. Alphabet launched Loon in 2011 to connect the 3.8 billion people who, by Loon s estimate, live in hard-to-reach areas where internet providers have found it too cost-prohibitive to install traditional ground-based network systems. The project relied on sending gas-filled polyethylene balloons as large as tennis courts more than 60,000 feet into the sky, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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