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Josie Garthwaite

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U.S. Military Preps for Gene Drives Run Amok (Scientific American)

November 19, 2016 by Josie Garthwaite

DARPA researchers are developing responses for accidental or malicious “genetic spills”

Categories: Environment, Science, Scientific American, Technology • Tags: biotech, CRISPR, DARPA, DNA, synthetic biology, Technology

Beyond GMOs: The Rise of Synthetic Biology (The Atlantic, Climate Confidential)

September 25, 2015 by Josie Garthwaite

Genetically modified organisms today usually have just one engineered gene. Scientists now want to create organisms with whole new gene clusters.

Categories: Business, Environment, Science, Technology, The Atlantic • Tags: agriculture, biotech, Climate Change, CRISPR, food, GMOs, iGEM, MIT, synthetic biology

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Sharing the Road With Driverless Cars (Climate Confidential)

May 12, 2014 by Josie Garthwaite

As autonomous vehicles become a real choice for our neighborhoods, transit hubs, entertainment districts, and downtown cores, there is an opportunity for them to bring environmental benefits. But realizing those benefits will require us to take a hard look at how personal cars—even the driverless kind—fit into urban life.

Categories: Climate Confidential, Environment, Mobility & Transport, Policy, Technology • Tags: autonomous vehicles, CARB, Climate Change, congestion pricing, self-driving cars

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California Drought Dries Up Hydro, But Power Stays On (National Geographic)

March 12, 2014 by Josie Garthwaite

California’s record drought has parched crops, but hasn’t yet dimmed lights or choked the flow of electricity, even though the Golden State, with more than 300 dams, has long been a hydroelectricity leader among U.S. states.

Categories: Energy, Environment, National Geographic • Tags: California, Climate Change, drought, electricity, extreme weather, hydropower, natural gas, renewables, water

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Our Environmental Future (Climate Confidential)

February 9, 2014 by Josie Garthwaite

I’m launching a new reporting project with five of my favorite independent journalists. Each week, we’ll publish a new story focused on the intersection of environment and technology—but we need at least 800 subscribers before March 5 to bring this to life.

Categories: Environment, Miscellaneous, Technology • Tags: Climate Change, Journalism, Startups

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Mojave Mirrors: World’s Largest Solar Plant Ready to Shine (National Geographic)

July 26, 2013 by Josie Garthwaite

The huge Ivanpah solar plant is part of a push to expand renewable energy on U.S. federal land. The developer took steps to relocate a population of the threatened desert tortoise.

Categories: Energy, Environment, National Geographic, Technology • Tags: BrightSource, California, Ivanpah, Mojave, Solar

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Oil Potential and Animal Habitat in the Monterey Shale (National Geographic)

May 29, 2013 by Josie Garthwaite

Much of the petroleum produced in California over the past 150 years has sprung from a jumble of rocks known as the Monterey shale formation. To some, the costs of using advanced technologies to unlock oil that remains tightly bound in the Monterey appear too high. Landscapes atop the shale include habitats for protected species such as the San Joaquin Kit fox, the California Condor, and blunt-nosed leopard lizard.

Categories: Environment, National Geographic, Science

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Capturing Climate Change Digitally (The New York Times)

December 28, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

By analyzing thousands of photographs of a forest canopy less than 40 miles outside London, researchers were able to estimate carbon uptake over a two-year period based on the leaves’ hues.

Categories: Environment, Science, Technology, The New York Times

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Outside the Box: Eight No-Wrap Gift Ideas (The New York Times)

December 22, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

Less than a week before Christmas, you can still find gifts that are both enjoyable and on the greener side.

Categories: Environment, Lifestyle, The New York Times

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Coyotes now inhabit every state in the country except Hawaii, eating mostly rodents, rabbits, and fruit.

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Desert tortoises in the Mojave are able to survive a year or more without water and live for as long as 80 years.

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A nearly 10-foot-long relative of the centipede called the Arthropleura splashed through Inner Mongolia's swampland 298 million years ago.

— "Into the Permian Woods"

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