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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (27 April - 03 May 2026):

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@living_carbon secured $500m deal with Octopus Energy Generation to restore degraded land and remove CO₂. Octopus Energy Generation is also investing nearly $13 million in Living Carbon’s CDR business.
wsj.com/pro/sustainabl…

BTG Pactual TIG raised $1.2B for reforestation and ecosystem restoration.
esgtoday.com/btg-pactual-ti…

The Naturalis Biodiversity Center pre-bought ~$59K in nature-based CDR credits via Treeconomy.
carbon-pulse.com/507754/

World Bank launched a $120M ecosystem restoration bond backed by Amazon CDR deal.
esgtoday.com/world-bank-lau…

Prithu raised $1.1M to scale nature-based CDR platform.
carbon-pulse.com/506799/

CURA received $1M from NorthX Climate Tech to scale electrochemical cement and lime decarbonization.
northx.ca/announcements/…

@capturaCO2 and SAF+ International Group announced to build a French eSAF plant producing 75,000 t/yr, using green hydrogen and CO₂ from Captura’s Direct Ocean Capture.
linkedin.com/posts/esaf-sus…

@Impact4Climate and Green Earth signed a long-term agroforestry offtake with a pharmaceutical firm for 1.5Mt CDR in Kenya.
climateimpact.com/news-insights/…

@Climeworks partnered with NTT DATA Group on net-zero via carbon removal.
climeworks.com/press-release/…

@Impact4Climate & Aviva Investors launched a forest project targeting up to 6Mt CO₂ removal.
esgtoday.com/aviva-investor…

Douglas County approved a $7.88M biochar and recycling facility in Colorado.
biochartoday.com/news/douglas-c…

@DalhousieU secured $2.1M from Research Nova Scotia for research including ocean CDR.
dal.ca/news/2026/04/3…

ENGIE partnered with @DeepSkyCorp to purchase up to 15,000 CDR credits from Deep Sky’s DAC facilities.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Boeing secured 20,000 tonnes of CDR via Supercritical.
esgnews.com/boeing-secures…

@Carbon_Direct & Arca partnered to commercialize industrial mineralization CDR credits.
carbon-direct.com/press/carbon-d…

Carbon to Sea Canada launched a collaborative ocean alkalinity enhancement initiatives in Halifax.
carbontosea.org/2026/04/29/car…

Verde and @Isometric_HQ partnered to scale certified biochar credits for infrastructure use.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

@Carbonaires launched an RFP aimed at bringing offtake-backed financing into high-quality CDR projects. Projects submission deadline: 22 May 2026
linkedin.com/posts/carbonai…

Frontier & @carbonremovers launched a surficial mineralization hub in Quebec. Applications for pilot and research projects are now open, with pre-applications due by May 26, 2026.
frontierclimate.com/writing/surfic…

The Global South Carbon Dioxide Removal Coalition together with Negative Emissions Platform published a policy position paper urging EU to integrate high-integrity CDR credits.
static1.squarespace.com/static/5efb3fd…

A new Senate of Canada report explored how OAE could help remove CO2 from the air and store it in the ocean over the long term.
sencanada.ca/en/info-page/p…

@RockyMtnInst report mapped CDR pathways for Massachusetts net-zero.
rmi.org/insight/massac…

@CarbonMrktWatch warned six European countries over-rely on CDRs vs emissions cuts.
carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

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1 of the top stupid takes by geo-political "strategist"
1. This is not new posturing by previously non-aligned Nepal. Pro-China KPS Oli had same territory included in map via constitutional amendment passed unanimously in 2020 - far more symbolic weight than a stupid statement.

https://twitter.com/Z_DauletSingh/status/2050973106571997514

The only way Nepal can irritate or blackmail India is by joining China & posing serious threat to our national security. The pass was opened for trade & pilgrimage by mutual agreement of India & China & these are only 2 parties who can stop it.

https://x.com/Z_DauletSingh/status/2050973106571997514?s=20

US knows this very well that there is nothing Nepal can do about it. So what the F**k will US gain by making Nepal release such statement? The pass gets closed magically? Nepal sends army wrest it from Indian? 😂🤣

https://x.com/Z_DauletSingh/status/2050973106571997514?s=20

The US, EU, Turkey and China all now compete with Russia for control over the Caucasus.

Armenia and Azerbaijan just ended a decades-long war, and that peace opened new energy and trade routes through the narrow strip linking Europe and Asia. — Bloomberg.

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The US secured exclusive rights to develop the TRIPP corridor — a rail and road route across Armenia's south connecting Azerbaijan with its exclave of Nakhchivan.

The agreement extends to oil and gas pipelines and fiber optic networks for 99 years.

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The EU plans to strike a connectivity partnership with Armenia — a potential funding package of up to €2.5 billion.

The first-ever EU-Armenia summit takes place Tuesday. Armenia applied for EU membership last year.

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A group of five Ukrainian hackers tricked 2500 Russians into revealing their location — The Times.

They created a bot that posed as a group of cybercriminals. Russians asked to add their Starlinks to the database as Ukrainian. In exchange, they gave their crypto wallet.

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“Fucking Ukrainians, you are liars! Always find a way to take money. You are worse then Jews” — a Russian soldier after he was told that he was scammed by Ukrainian military.

After getting the wallet, the hacker group always revealed themselves to demmoralize Russians.

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Ukrainian hacker: Sometimes we create images of girls with AI and pretend to be them while talking to Russians on the frontline and recieve information from them.

This group also gained access to the location of Russian arms factories which were struck later.

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THREAD

Aisha (Peace be upon her) did not reached the age of menstruation. Proved with evidence

https://twitter.com/Exmuslim24/status/2050256790894621117

As you can see in this Sahih hadith that Aisha (Peace be upon her) use to play with the dolls.
And she is saying together with the consummation time.
sunnah.com/nasai:3378

Marriage consummation happened on the same day when Prophet came to took Aisha (Peace be upon her) to his house.

West Scotland

Constituencies:
West Scotland will be one of the battlegrounds for Labour and the SNP. The other big story will be if the Conservative list vote collapses as some pundits indicate.

Clydebank and Milngavie
Claire Gallagher - Scottish Common Party
Ben Langmead - Liberal Democrats
Alix Mathieson - Conservative and Unionist Party
Marie A McNair - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Callum McNally - Labour Party
Andy White - Reform UK

A surge from Reform may ensure that McNair is safe

Cunninghame North
Ian Gibson - Alliance for Democracy and Freedom
Kenneth Gibson - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Mike Mann - Reform UK
Matthew McGowan - Labour Party
Christine Margaret Murdoch - Liberal Democrats
Ronnie Stalker - Conservative and Unionist Party

Kenny Gibson has been one of the most independently minded MSPs. He rebelled on GRR and on the Unbuyable Bill. He should hold comfortably & we would be very happy to see him back.

South Scotland

Constituencies:
South Scotland contains the “blue wall” along the border, in recent years, the Conservatives have enjoyed good results here and now Reform will be hoping to make gains. South Scotland has seen a significant boundary change since 2021: East Lothian has gone and two central belt seats - East Kilbride and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse - are in. The latter are relatively urban seats in a largely rural region and more likely to lean SNP/Lab

Ayr
Siobhian Brown - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Desmond Buchanan - Liberal Democrats
Sharon Dowey - Conservative and Unionist Party
Brian McGinley - Labour Party
Andrew Fleming Russell - Reform UK
Denise Sommerville - Independent
Muhammad Tufail - Scottish Common Party

Brown had several car crash interviews over hate crime and was ill-equipped to fill the ministerial shoes of Ash Regan. She was handed the poisoned chalice brief of objecting to the unbuyable bill. Brown took Ayr with a wafer thin majority over John Scott (battling health issues) in 2021. The conservatives could retake it if Reform don’t spoil the party.

Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Jack Clark - Liberal Democrats
Tracey Clark - Conservative and Unionist Party
Sean Davis - Independent
Katie Hagmann - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Alison Hewett - Independent
Carol Ann Mochan - Labour Party
Andrew Scott - Reform UK

Labour are the stronger rivals to SNP in this seat, which is losing MSP Elena Whitham. Labour’s @CMochan voted against the GRR and is a thoughtful advocate for wider women’s rights with a special interest in women’s health.

Hermes Agent now has multi-agent via the Kanban, new in v0.12.0.

Agents claim tasks from a board, work in parallel, and hand off when blocked. You watch progress and unblock from one easy view instead of juggling terminals.

We asked it to plan and make this video about itself:

Features

- Multi-agent: each task runs on a specialized profile, with its own tools, skills, and personality.
- Linked tasks: parent → child dependencies. Fan out work, gather results, continue.
- Shared workspaces: agents hand off files through a directory, a git worktree, or a temp scratch space.
- Live dashboard: watch the team work in real time.
- Comments per task: humans and agents both write. The next agent picking up the task reads the full thread.
- Skills built in: a planner (kanban-orchestrator) and a worker (kanban-worker) ship by default. Pin a domain skill per task to load expertise.
- Durable: SQLite-backed. Survives crashes, restarts, and reboots.
- No double-claims: when many agents compete for the next task, only one wins.
- Heartbeats + runtime caps: long jobs stay alive, runaways get killed.
- Project isolation: run multiple projects on one machine without crosstalk.

github.com/NousResearch/h…

Here's a handy tutorial!

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guid…

How Social Media Algorithms are systematically eroding Indian Culture by pushing Soft Provocative content of Female Influencers disguised as Bold Content!!🆘
India is being SOFTLY INVADED… and the weapon is You SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE. While you scroll, algorithms are flooding Indian feeds with semi-nude, borderline porno reels from female influencers getting MILLIONS of views from 14-25 year olds.
Your daughter’s feed. Your little brother’s feed. Your wife’s feed. This isn’t organic, This is engineered and no one is talking about it.
Lets explore this "Cultural Colonization through Algorithms" of India
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PS - Header pic profile pics are AI generated for reference only.

1. The Paradise of Nudity

The torch bearers of this social media semi nude suggestive content are already familiar to us and now young girls are using this trend as ticket to their social media fame and hot shot earnings.
The biggest problem is that all of these young girls are happily apping this and treating is as NEW NORMAL!!
Lets us see in next section that how social media algorithms are fueling this HOT SHOT FAME digital invasion of India??

2. The Digital Trap
The success of suggestive content within the Indian digital market can be primarily understood through the lens of behavioral economics, specifically the concept of the supernormal stimulus.
Originally defined in ethology, a supernormal stimulus is an exaggerated version of a natural stimulus that elicits a response more intense than the response to the original stimulus for which the behavior evolved. In the context of digital consumer behavior, high-arousal visual content such as semi-nude imagery or provocative dance videos serves as an artificial exaggeration of reproductive cues.

Digital platforms exploit the human brain's evolutionary predisposition toward these cues. Because the human visual system evolved in environments where such stimuli were rare and high-value, the modern digital environment, which presents "megadoses" of these stimuli, results in a state of chronic engagement that users often find difficult to regulate.
In India, the rapid democratization of high-speed mobile data has exposed a vast, first-generation digital population to these triggers. Research indicates that individuals persistently underestimate the time they spend on social media, largely due to the "limited ability to exercise self-control" in the face of such highly salient stimuli.

The "Try-Buy" model of digital attention provides a framework for understanding how these stimuli interact with algorithmic ranking. This model suggests that attention operates in two distinct stages.
In Stage 1 (the "Try" stage), users are exposed to content in an algorithmically generated feed, where they attend more to sensational than credible content, quantified by dwell time.
In Stage 2 (the "Buy" stage), users decide whether to actively engage (like, comment, share).
Because platforms like Instagram and X heavily weight dwell time as a positive signal, sensational and suggestive content is prioritized in the discovery phase, even if it does not always lead to high-quality engagement in the second stage.

North East Scotland

Constituencies:
NE Scotland has, traditionally, been dominated by SNP and the Conservatives. In a region suffering from the decline of the oil industry, Reform are hoping to make an impact and may have a shot at a constituency seat.

Aberdeen Central
Yi-Pei Chou Turvey - Liberal Democrats
Jenny Laing - Labour Party
Jack Middleton - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Stewart Whyte - Conservative and Unionist Party
James Wyllie - Reform UK

Reform may do well here, but nowhere near enough to overcome the SNP

Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine
Stephen Mark Flynn - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Liam Kerr - Conservative and Unionist Party
Iris Alexandra Leask - Independent
Matthew Lee - Labour Party
Duncan Massey - Reform UK
Mel Sullivan - Liberal Democrats

Liam Kerr ran Audrey Nicoll pretty close in 2021, but the SNP are likely to benefit from the “celebrity” impact of Westminster leader Flynn as well as Reform splitting the Conservative vote.

Going to Paris?

The Louvre is a must-see, but pro travelers know there's way more to explore.

10 masterpieces in Paris that aren't in the Louvre. 🧵

1. Water Lilies" (Nymphéas) by Claude Monet
Where: Musée de l'Orangerie

2. "Bal du moulin de la Galette" by Auguste Renoir
Where: Musée d'Orsay

3. "Starry Night Over the Rhône" by Vincent van Gogh
Where: Musée d'Orsay

Thread with Credit to @mujifren
🧵 THREAD: Rahul Gandhi in Muscat — “Just a café visit.” Let’s follow the chain.
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Special thanks to @mujifren for the sharp research.
On the eve of Bengal election results, India’s Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was spotted at Café Farah, Muscat — in the diplomatic quarter.
Not in Bengal. Not in Delhi. Muscat.
Let’s trace who owns that café. 👇

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Café Farah is operated by Al Zaman Hospitality LLC, part of Al Zaman Group.
Owned and run by Omani businessman Mr. Khalid Mohammed Zaman, Managing Director of the Al Zaman Group conglomerate.
Just a regular café owner?

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Khalid Zaman also serves on the board of BlueFive Capital — a $3 billion investment fund launched in 2024, based in Abu Dhabi.
Its focus: Channeling Gulf sovereign wealth into US and European AI, biotech, and advanced computing.