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Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a novel way to process plastic waste that strips it of contaminants, making the resulting recycled material more attractive to customers. The startup says
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On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. “I look over to where the barn is over there,
Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh funding will help the company develop horizontal wells in super-hot rocks capable of generating 15 megawatts of electricity per well. Mazama plans to start generating electricity sometime next year and said its first site in Oregon is
If you sat around at any point this year and wondered why it felt so much hotter than normal, it’s because it actually was. According to a new report from NOAA, summer 2026 is the hottest on record, beating out the prior holders of the crown, a tie between 2021 and 1936. Per NOAA, the
