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Miami will be underwater soon. Its drinking water could go first Bloomberg Businessweek ■ August 29, 2018, 5:00 AM EDT A rock lake at the edge of Miami-Dade County. The city has another serious water problem. One morning in June, Douglas Yoder climbed into a white government SUV on the edge of Miami and headed northwest, away from the glittering coastline and into the maze of water infrastructure that makes this city possible. He drove past drainage canals that sever backyards and industrial lots, ancient water-treatment plants peeking out from behind run-down bungalows, and Read the full story Shared from Apple News Dragos

This carbon-sucking mineral could help slow down climate change Fast Company In a field in northern British Columbia, a white mineral covering the ground–magnesite, also called magnesium carbonate–has slowly been sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere since the last Ice Age. That's very helpful: we need to sequester more carbon. But the small crystals of the mineral, made by taking CO2 from the air, can take hundreds or thousands of years to grow, and we need fixes that work faster than that. In a Canadian lab, researchers recently demonstrated that they could speed the Read the full story Shared from Apple News Dragos