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Money Is Pouring Into Carbon Removal Technologies, But the Companies Involved Struggle to Pay for It
The dream is to suck carbon from the air and bury it, but the reality is that some direct air capture companies have to sell the captured CO2 to make more oil.
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Bill Gates on Masks: By Late Spring and Summer ‘You Can Look at Changing Your Behavior in a Significant Way'
The Microsoft co-founder said he plans to keep wearing a mask through the fall, during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin on the app Clubhouse Thursday.
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Bill Gates: Nuclear Power Will ‘Absolutely' Be Politically Acceptable Again — It's Safer Than Oil, Coal, Natural Gas
Bill Gates says nuclear power will “absolutely” be politically palatable again. It’s safer than oil, coal, and natural gas and technology is improving.
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Bill Gates: This Is What You — Yes, You — Can Do to Help Prevent a Climate Change Disaster
“It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of a problem as big as climate change,” says Bill Gates. “But you’re not powerless.” Here’s what you can do.
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Bill Gates Likens GameStop Frenzy to Gambling, Says Such Speculation Has No Societal Purpose
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates expressed concern about the role social media played in the GameStop trading frenzy.
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Trump Probably Should Be Allowed Back on Social Media, Bill Gates Says
Bill Gates told CNBC that social media sites could slap Trump’s future false posts with labels.
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Bill Gates Says J&J and Novavax Covid Vaccines Have ‘a Lot of Capability' Against Variants
Billionaire Bill Gates said Johnson & Johnson’s and Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccines will still be essential tools against new, emerging variants of the virus.
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Bill Gates Says We Need More Elon Musks to Tackle Climate Change
Bill Gates said Tesla is “the biggest single contribution to showing us that electric cars are part of how we solve climate change.”
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Bill Gates: Unlike Elon Musk, I'm Not a Mars Person
Gates said he’d rather spend money on measles vaccines than traveling to space in a rocket.
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This 34-Year-Old's Start-Up Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Aims to Make Nearly Unlimited Clean Energy
Brandon Sorbom was rejected by Ph.D. programs. Now, he’s a co-founder and chief scientist at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates: These 5 Concepts Will Help You Understand the Urgency of the Climate Crisis
In his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Bill Gates shares five concepts that have helped to frame his understanding of the pending climate crisis.
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Bill Gates on Climate Change: I'm Another ‘Rich Guy With an Opinion' — But Here's Why You Should Listen
Bill Gates knows he is an imperfect spokesperson for climate change mitigation. “[M]y carbon footprint is absurdly high,” he writes in “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.”
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Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci Talk Regularly — Here's What They're Discussing Now
Bill Gates has collaborated with Dr. Fauci on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Covid efforts since the start of the pandemic.
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Bill Gates Says Bioterrorism and Climate Change Are the Next Biggest Threats After Pandemic
Years before the coronavirus battered the globe, Bill Gates warned that governments weren’t prepared for a pandemic.
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Jeff Bezos Would Owe $2 Billion a Year in State Taxes If Washington Passes Wealth Tax
Critics warn that since none of Washington’s top billionaires have any day-to-day corporate roles, they could simply move to another state to avoid the tax
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Leon Cooperman on GameStop, the Fed and the Myth About the Rich and Taxes
Leon Cooperman weighs in on GameStop, the Fed and the myth about the rich not paying their fair share of taxes.
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Bill Gates Was ‘Very Surprised' That ‘Crazy' COVID Conspiracy Theories Targeted Him and Dr. Fauci
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci became top targets for various baseless conspiracy theories around the coronavirus pandemic.
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Why Wealth Inequality Is Driving Democrats in the 2020 Election
Why the rhetoric surrounding wealth inequality is especially acute this election season among Democratic presidential candidates — and will continue to be so.
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Bill Gates: ‘I Wish I Had Done More' to Call Attention to Pandemic Danger
Billionaire Bill Gates warned about the dangers of a global viral outbreak years before the coronavirus pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of people and upended the global economy. But Gates now wishes he’d been more urgent in order to convince global leaders to take the threat of a ‘once-in-a-century pathogen’ more seriously, he told The Wall Street Journal.
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Warren Buffett Loves Teaching This '20-Slot' Rule at Business Schools—and It's Not Just About Getting Rich
Warren Buffett’s longtime friend and business partner Charlie Munger says the “20-slot” rule for success had always been obvious to him “since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to many other people.”