Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube

Justine CalmaJan 16, 2024

Uber is shuttering its alcohol delivery service, Drizly.

The alcohol app has been a cybersecurity headache since Uber acquired it a few years ago. The FTC found out that a hack affected 2.5 million customers in 2020, two years after the company initially learned about a security flaw.

“We’ve decided to close the business and focus on our core Uber Eats strategy of helping consumers get almost anything — from food to groceries to alcohol — all on a single app,” Uber SVP of delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty told Axios.

Uber shutting down Drizly three years after $1.1 billion acquisition

[Axios]

Justine CalmaJan 11, 2024

EV charging gets $623 million boost in the US.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced $623 million in grants for electric vehicle charging projects today. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will benefit 47 EV charging and alternative-fueling infrastructure projects across 22 states and Puerto Rico. Back in September, DOT authorized another $100 million in funding to fix broken EV chargers that dot the US.

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Justine CalmaJan 10, 2024

Nanoplastics are another reason to ditch bottled water.

Researchers discovered up to 100 times more nanoplastics in bottled water than previous estimates. Add that the growing list of places microplastics are accumulating where they really shouldn’t be — including babies’ poop, seafood, the Arctic, and Great Lakes.

Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

[Grist]