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Seminal produces climate-forward, organic products across health, wellness, and beauty that cultivate your best—naturally. We work for people and planet. Welcome to progress replanted.

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In '24, NYC's greenhouse emissions dropped to levels not seen since '20, during the COVID pandemic. The declines were due to higher energy efficiency, including in cars; phase-out of fuel oil in buildings; and EV growth. Buildings' emissions have fallen 27% since '05.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/g...
A stacked bar graph depicts the three main sources of greenhouse gas emissions in NYC from 2005 to 2025, with blue, representing stationary energy (from buildings and structures); orange, representing transportation; and purple, representing waste. 2025 emissions levels matched those of 2020—with historically low traffic during pandemic lockdowns—of about 50 million tonnes, as a result of rigorous anti-pollution laws enforced by NYC in recent years. The marked decreases were led by critical declines in structural, or "stationary-energy," emissions, particularly.
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Microplastics—found increasingly in food and water—can trigger neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. They weaken the blood-brain barrier activating inflammation and damage. A person consumes 250g, about a plateful, of microplastics yearly.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
A closeup of the top halves of a women's four fingers, littered with microplastics.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Dept of the Interior will open 13.1 mn acres of fed land for coal mining and lower royalty rates for extraction. The Dept of Energy will also invest $625mn in the industry. Two coal plants must be retired weekly, globally, by 2040 to not exceed 1.5C.
www.realclearenergy.org/2025/12/08/c...
A large pile of coal
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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BP withdrew its application on 12/1 for a blue-hydrogen project at Teeside, located in the UK. A competing data center at the site, sailing through the approval process, contributed to the decision; but, industrial consumers' pared-down or delayed decarbonization plans finally derailed the project.
The first page of a letter from BP announcing the withdrawal of their application for a blue-hydrogen project at the Teeside site, located in the UK. The second page of a letter from BP announcing the withdrawal of their application for a blue-hydrogen project at the Teeside site, located in the UK.
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Amid climate change and extreme weather the Administration cut science services, pushing many to enlist climate-data corps, driving their growth. They now raise 3x more capital in fewer rounds with expertise in pollution risk and even mineral reserves' locations.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
A bar graph depicting considerable fundraising growth—including during the years of '21 through '24—in capital campaigns for private climate-data firms, amid anticipation of federal climate rollbacks, like slashing of climate research.
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A low-pressure system is snarling travel while pummeling eastern TX, northern LA, southern AR and western MS. Over 80 flights at DFW were canceled, with at least 140 delayed. Texas Hill Country—where over 130 died in Jul amid historic flooding—will be hard hit.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
A map showing a wide storm system sweeping over Texas, the Gulf, and the Midwest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Oregon farmers are adopting regenerative agriculture practices—like strategic burning and sustainable irrigation—that promote soil health and climate resilience. These methods raise profits and store carbon, limiting emissions. But, funding is now uncertain.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/s...
Sakari Farms owner Spring Alaska Schreiner on the left—holding a huge orange squash—and farm manager Sam Schreiner, on the right, in a greenhouse, amid their abundant crop.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Warming will exceed 1.5C annually by the 2030s. When we begin "living beyond limits"—frankly, the era of humanity's failure—we will see even more colossal extreme weather and the collapse of food supplies for well over 200mn. There's 4 yr to make it right.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
A colorful line graph is plotted—going from blue to red—as it passes through deeper regions of green, to yellow, to orange, and to red indicating growing areas of concern and danger as we proceed further through time, and, effectively, the climate crisis. The "x-axis" starts with earlier part of the Holocene period—c. 1980 as the origin point—while the "y-axis" denotes rising socio-economic destabilization as humanity has progressed through the Holocene period. The region goes from a medium to quite a light green 1997—the year of the Kyoto Protocol. The green then gives way to more yellow as we proceed down the "x-axis" before no green is left at the year 2015, when the Paris Agreement—and the limit of 1.5C of yearly planetary warming—was established. The words "social unrest, failure to meet SDGs, sustainable development goals, loom in bold orange at the top left of the graph between about 1990 to 1994. Between 1997 and 2015, the note "missed opportunities" is written under the plotted line graph. 2025 marks the last point of blue for the line graph before it becomes red, and then converts to an ominous dashed segment—after about the 2030, with the words "business as usual" marked in red at the end of the visible dashed segment, from about 2100 to 2200—as if indicating Earth may not make it. The words "2030: SDGs" implying 2030 sustainable development goals are written in white right before the 2025 mark. The region is tinged by red at about the 2050 point and enters a deep red at about 2100, seemingly indicating a point of no return. Precariously the plotted line can no longer be discerned—ostensibly because the red segment is overcome by a deepening red hue or perhaps we have deviated too far—after about the 2200 mark. Curved rays, sweeping upwards, are drawn from the 2025 point on with the words "unmanageable overshoot" in orange written to the upper-right of them. "Degraded future, destabilized Earth system and societies" is at the very top right of the graph.
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A draft of the COP30 deal omitted fossil fuels, entirely dropping a range of options that were included previously. Options were non-starters for petro-states. COP deals must be approved unanimously (i.e., among almost 200 nations at COP30) for adoption. #greenslack
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the left and COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev on the right.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Restorers are reconstructing a dilapidated neighborhood in Cairo's historic center by repurposing old structures. They're aiming to build liveable homes while keeping the area's character. Foundations were strengthened while plumbing and electricity were installed.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
A woman restoration specialist works on-site at the Darb al-Labbana restoration project designed to rebuild the historic yet dilapidated neighborhood in old Cairo, Egypt.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Overall, 45% of utility customers nationwide reported experiencing a power outage in the 1st half of 2025. Of those outages, just under half were due to severe weather. Customers in the South suffer the most with a power outage lasting 18.2 hr, on average, in '25.
www.jdpower.com/business/res...
A bar graph—of blue, light-green, green, and turquoise columns—indicating the average length of power outages, per year, across the East, Midwest, South, and West regions of the United States. The blue column represents 2022; the light-green column represents 2023; the green column represents 2024; and the turquoise column represents 2025. The average power outage is getting longer with the U.S. South bearing the brunt. Residents of that region experienced an average power-outagr length of 18.2 hours in 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A draft text calling on govts and industry to make human rights the cornerstone of the rare-minerals value chain was released at COP30 on 11/14. Supply chains must benefit nations by protecting resources, creating jobs, and driving revenue for development.
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/14/c...
A miner holds pieces of lithium ore.
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Residents of Salisbury, MD are suing Perdue Agribusiness over contamination caused by its soybean plant. Wastewater-containing lagoons at the plant are leaking while discharge from the facility seeps into streams and PFAS in excavated soil leaches into groundwater.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/fres...
A color-coded map of Salisbury, MD indicating areas of contamination from Perdue Agribusiness's soybean plant.
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Saudi Arabia's Aramco is set to enter 2 US LNG supply deals with Woodside Energy and Commonwealth LNG when the kingdom's Prince bin Salman visits D.C. the week of 11/16. Aramco will buy a stake in Woodside's LA project. LNG capacity is set to double in the US by 2030.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Aramco's, Saudi Arabia's and the world's largest oil company's, logo—a white pixelated star atop the edge of a green globe (ostensibly, the Earth)— alongside the word "aramco" against a black glass plane.
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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PA will no longer seek membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The initiative caps emissions and mandates power plants in Northeastern member states to purchase allowances to release CO₂. PA Republicans opposed RGGI from the start. #greenblock
thehill.com/policy/energ...
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is pictured giving a press conference outside, during the day, flanked by a state official on his left and a sheriff on his right.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The EU Parliament approved a plan to cut emissions 90% by 2040—and outsource 5% of that target to countries outside the bloc, via carbon credits—on 11/13. The plan falls short of the target 90% cuts, without carbon offsets, that would constrain warming to 1.5C.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
A view of chimneys atop the Yara France plant—located in Montoir-de-Bretagne, France—emitting thick, industrial, polluting smoke in March 2022.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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According to the IEA, fossil-fuel use could peak by 2030. Coal use is at or close to its peak, while oil and gas's peak would follow in the decade after. Nuclear, solar and wind will surge in the interim. The peak has been delayed by the shift in US policy.
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Line graphs, one in blue and one in red, indicate the daily oil demand—under current climate policies and stated climate policies, respectively— in millions of barrels per year. Under current policies, daily oil demand would near 115 million barrels by 2050 while it would plunge to about 96 million daily, under stated policies, by 2050.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Hydrogen solutions provider Plug Power Inc expects to boost liquidity by over $275mn through asset monetization. A planned 5MW electrolyzer in the Netherlands and a Letter of Intent to monetize electricity rights in NY mark a strategic shift. #greenshoots
www.investing.com/news/company...
An image of an electrical grid by Adobe
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Ten technologies could spur climate action and sustainable innovation. For example, AI and automation can ensure food scraps are diverted from landfills and repurposed, reducing emissions. Plus, green concrete can streamline construction while providing CO₂ storage.
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/repo...
A pie chart outlines risks to the planet in each sector—freshwater change; land-system change; change in biosphere integrity; climate change; overloading with novel entities; stratospheric ozone depletion; increase in atmospheric aerosol loading; ocean acidification; and modification of biogeochemical flows—and emerging technologies that can combat each hazard including next-gen bidirectional charging, modular geothermal energy, and regenerative desalination among others.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A 6.9-magnitude earthquake (Level 4, Shindo scale) struck off the coast of Iwate prefecture, Japan, 5pm local time on 11/9. A tsunami warning expired. The quake reached a depth of 10km below the sea surface. Neither injuries nor power-plant anomalies were reported.
www.euronews.com/2025/11/09/p...
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 34% since 1995. Despite years of summits emissions have climbed by 33% since the 1st COP 30 yr ago. Demand for coal will remain near record highs through 2027. Anything above 1.5C will be disastrous for small, island nations.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
A line graph shows greenhouse gas emissions continually rising from 1965 to 2025, with the steepest rise coming from 2020.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Zohran Mamdani is the mayoral-elect of NYC (our city ;-)). What are climate threats for the city? By 2080, many areas will face an increased risk of tidal flooding with rising sea levels. Neighborhoods will become vulnerable to extreme rainfall. Let's tackle this.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Preliminary results for the NYC mayoral race are available (c. 9:42pm EST on 11/4/2025). As of 9:42pm EST on November 4, Zohran Mamdani has 49.6%; Andrew Cuomo has 41.6%; and Curtis Sliwa has 7.9% of the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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This is the status of climate lawsuits against the Administration. Of the 38 cases, the majority, 24, face pending rulings. Three have been won by climate activists while another 3 were wins for the Administration. Energy and fed grants are 2 issues at stake.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...
A pie chart shows the results—as of November 3, 2024—of climate lawsuits filed against the Trump administration. Of the 38 cases, 24 have no ruling; three had mixed results (where judgments were only partly in favor of climate activists); three were losses for climate activists; and six were wins for the Trump administration.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Melissa rapidly intensified into a hurricane, bearing down on the Caribbean. It may become a Cat 4 or 5 with at least 150-mph winds. Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba will be most impacted. Parts of Jamaica will get up to 25" of rain. Deadly landslides are also expected.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
Map showing Hurricane Melissa over Jamaica and its cone of uncertainty extending northeast, hundreds of miles off the east coast of Florida
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Green-energy stocks are on the rebound, despite rollbacks. The green index—including 83 public companies in the clean-tech space—is up 40% in '25, beating the S&P 500's total return by 25 percentage points. Most oil and market indices aren't even close. #greenalpha
www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...
A line graph, in green, tracking the performance of an index of clean-energy stocks shows a spike for 2025, indicating a rebound after a decline in 2024.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM