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Ian Mount
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Ian Mount is a journalist, author and ghostwriter with over 20 years of experience covering business, technology, politics, wine, sports, and culture in Spain, Argentina, and the U.S. Bylines include Financial Times, New York Times, Businessweek, U.S. public radio (The World, Marketplace, and Only a Game), NewYorker.com and, of course, Fortune. His book Vineyard at the End of the World (W.W. Norton, 2012) was chosen for the J.P. Morgan Private Bank summer reading list (aka the “Billionaire’s Book Club”).

A Bill Gates-backed startup is retrofitting diesel engines to run on cleaner fuel and challenging the idea that ‘all carbon is evil’
Features
A Bill Gates-backed startup is retrofitting diesel engines to run on cleaner fuel and challenging the idea that ‘all carbon is evil’
By Ian MountSeptember 27, 2022
A Dutch-Norwegian startup wants to open ‘a whole new frontier’ of renewable energy with solar farms that float on the ocean’s surface
Features
A Dutch-Norwegian startup wants to open ‘a whole new frontier’ of renewable energy with solar farms that float on the ocean’s surface
By Ian MountSeptember 20, 2022
A DARPA grant inspired MIT scientists to build a desalinator the size of a briefcase that turns seawater into drinking water
Features
A DARPA grant inspired MIT scientists to build a desalinator the size of a briefcase that turns seawater into drinking water
By Ian MountSeptember 13, 2022
A winemaker set out to revive forgotten grapes. What he discovered could help save vineyards from climate change
Features
A winemaker set out to revive forgotten grapes. What he discovered could help save vineyards from climate change
By Ian MountAugust 30, 2022
Polyester-cotton blends are cheap, long lasting—and account for half of textile waste. A Bill Gates-backed startup has invented a way to recycle them into new threads
Environment
Polyester-cotton blends are cheap, long lasting—and account for half of textile waste. A Bill Gates-backed startup has invented a way to recycle them into new threads
By Ian MountAugust 16, 2022
A Bill Gates–backed startup is determined to solve the ‘pain in the neck’ problem keeping green hydrogen from fulfilling its clean energy potential
Environment
A Bill Gates–backed startup is determined to solve the ‘pain in the neck’ problem keeping green hydrogen from fulfilling its clean energy potential
By Ian MountAugust 2, 2022
Who is Javier Oliván, Sheryl Sandberg’s replacement as Meta COO?
Leadership
Who is Javier Oliván, Sheryl Sandberg’s replacement as Meta COO?
By Ian MountJune 2, 2022
A nurse in London ties a tourniquet on a patient’s arm, preparing to draw a blood sample
Health
There’s one big difference between Omicron and Delta symptoms, a major new study finds. Here’s how to tell them apart
By Ian MountApril 8, 2022
Portrait of Dr. Peter Marks
Health
Time is running short to make COVID variant vaccines for the coming autumn wave, FDA experts warn
By Ian MountApril 7, 2022
Second COVID-19 booster shots protect against Omicron infections—but not for long, major study says
Health
Second COVID-19 booster shots protect against Omicron infections—but not for long, major study says
By Ian MountApril 6, 2022
No ‘union,’ ‘living wage,’ or ‘restrooms’: A planned Amazon internal app could ban words in employee chats
Tech
No ‘union,’ ‘living wage,’ or ‘restrooms’: A planned Amazon internal app could ban words in employee chats
By Ian MountApril 5, 2022
Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor, left, speaks during a news conference with U.S. President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Feb. 7 2022.
Energy
President Biden pledged to kill Europe’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine. Can he really do that?
By David Meyer and Ian MountFebruary 8, 2022
College students in Madrid studying.
Health
Spain suggests a radical ‘end-demic’ approach to Omicron: Just treat it like the flu
By Ian MountJanuary 11, 2022
Europe sends workers back home as dreaded winter COVID wave hits
Health
Europe sends workers back home as dreaded winter COVID wave hits
By Ian MountNovember 18, 2021
U.S. markets bounce back, and crypto rises after inflation scare
Finance
U.S. markets bounce back, and crypto rises after inflation scare
By Ian MountNovember 15, 2021
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