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[ad_1] Carbon capture is having a moment. Companies such as Chevron are building technology to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks while others such as Microsoft are investing in startups working to yank the greenhouse gas out of the air directly. Governments and climate activists are pressing companies to eliminate their emissions, but there’s doubt whether solar, wind and batteries can do so alone. The United States, in particular, has focused […]

[ad_1] With injuries limiting him to one full tournament in 2023, the sumo world faces the prospect of lone yokozuna Terunofuji retiring before another wrestler has ascended to the sport's highest rank.The Mongolian-born grand champion claimed his eighth Emperor's Cup at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan with a commanding 14-1 performance in May, but it was the only time he completed a 15-day tournament all year and just the sixth time since […]

[ad_1] New York – Five playoff berths are up for grabs as the NFL season concludes this weekend with the Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans among those chasing places in the postseason title hunt.The Texans visit Indianapolis on Saturday with the winner clinching a playoff spot and the loser eliminated while Buffalo visits Miami on Sunday to decide an AFC East division winner.The Bills, on a four-game win streak, could […]

[ad_1] Still unable to emerge from a funk that is bordering on a month, there is now "a growing disconnect" between Los Angeles Lakers players and head coach Darvin Ham, The Athletic reported Thursday.All seemed optimistic in Lakers land when the team roared to the title in the NBA in-season tournament with a 123-109 victory over the Indiana Pacers at Las Vegas on Dec. 9.Since then, though, the Lakers are […]

[ad_1] DUBAI – Two explosions killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, Iranian officials said, blaming unspecified "terrorists."Iranian state television reported a first and then a second blast after 20 minutes during a crowded fourth-anniversary event at the cemetery where Soleimani is buried in the southeastern city of Kerman.No […]

[ad_1] An independent English-language documentary on the extraordinary life and violent death of Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who worked for years to turn a desert in war-torn Afghanistan green, is set to introduce him to a new audience while honoring his humanitarian feats.Moved by Nakamura's work, film director Kenji Yatsu filmed 1,000 hours of footage over 21 years starting in 1998, including Nakamura's involvement in the digging of a […]

[ad_1] “The First Slam Dunk” was animated in a style known as 3DCG anime, which combines the hard outlines and flat planes of traditional 2D animation with 3D models and movement. | © I.T. PLANNING, INC. © 2022 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK Film Partners While much of Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” was illustrated with pencil and paint on paper, the movie makes extensive use of computer animation, […]