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Current Climate brings you the latest sustainability business news every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox.Mount Pinatubo volcano and its crater lake, created by its 1991 eruption.Copyright 2001 AP. All rights reserved.WCome back to Current Climate. The realization that pure, carbon-free hydrogen is produced naturally underground rocked the energy world a few years ago, with the US Department of Energy estimating that there could be trillions of metric tons of it in underground pockets around the world. The challenge was to find large enough deposits to make drilling for the universe’s most abundant element worthwhile. Koloma, an…

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Update July 27: This post, first published on Friday, July 24, has been updated to reveal more details about the Sony Reon Pocket Pro, now available for purchase in the US Sony’s Reon Pocket Pro Plus is a portable thermal device. It was released earlier this year, but for the US, the shipping date was slated for late July. Well, that’s where we are now, so the device’s arrival in the United States seems well-timed for the recent high temperatures. See what it is and how it works. Sony Reon Pocket Pro PlusSonySony Reon Pocket Pro Plus: How it worksIf…

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Ethical behavior in organizations depends on a healthy dynamic between individual self-awareness, corporate culture, and leadership judgment, each reinforcing the other through accountability. When any link in these connections is weakened, the damage spreads to all of them. Below, Kellogg faculty offer actionable, research-backed advice on how to build and sustain an ethical workplace culture. 1. Promote humility and reflection There is evidence that ethical companies perform better in the market and has happier employees, he says Mariam Kouhakiprofessor of management and organizations studying decision making and ethics. He offers many recommendations for organizational leaders who want to achieve this…

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A close-up of a person holding an iPhone using Google AI, an experimental feature that uses artificial intelligence and large language models to process Google search queries, Lafayette, Calif., March 24, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Gado via Getty ImagesApple’s Siri AI isn’t very smart. That’s why future iPhones will combine Siri with Google’s highly acclaimed Gemini AI. Apparently what you just read has been overlooked by the European Union (EU). As news accounts in recent days show, the EU has fined Google $1 billion for “unfairly” favoring “its own services on its widely used search engine.” Except that Google’s…

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WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 21: Kevin Warsh, US President Donald Trump’s nominee for Chairman of the Federal Reserve, prepares to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump nominated Warsh, a former Federal Reserve Board member, to replace Jerome Powell amid bipartisan concerns about the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the central bank’s current leader. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKevin Warsh talks out of work. He regularly makes the correct point that markets operate more smoothly when they respond to…

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‘Carveout 2160’ is an ambitious indie snowboarding game that, if done well, could be pretty special.ByteparrotEvery now and then, a game preview takes you on a light-speed nostalgia trip. Feature 2160 is one of the best examples of that: a snowboarding hopeful that takes you back to the late 90s and early 2000s, where extreme sports titles were a dime a dozen, and almost all of them completely ignored gravity.The fifth and sixth generation of consoles became popular and ended a great place in gaming when Activision Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was king (and led to great spin-offs like Matt…

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The continued uncertainty over international tariffs imposed by the Trump administration has led to financial worries for many small businesses, although experts say many small businesses will weather the turmoil without much trouble.gettyContinued uncertainty over tariff policies has become a major concern for a wide swath of the US small business community, a new white paper released this week before the Trump administration replaces expiring international tariffs. new contributions to 80 nationshe claims.In its report, Crux Analytics, a small business banking platform, reports a 67% increase in small business bankruptcies in the first quarter of 2026. Increase in searches for…

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