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โ€˜Itโ€™s not game over โ€“ itโ€™s game onโ€™: why 2024 is an inflection point for the climateย crisis

...1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Governments have agreed, through the Paris Agreement, to work together to limit global warming to 1.5°C, because warming beyond this threshold poses enormous dangers for...
Posted On 07 Feb 2024
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Why Is Erosion Control Important, and What Are the Best Onsite Solutions?

...for new plant growth after completing a project. 2. Mulching and Compost Blankets Loose mulch or composted material can be spread over exposed dirt to reduce erosion. The...
Posted On 25 Aug 2022
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The Devastating Consequences of Natural Disasters Must Inform Buildingย Codes

Destroyed buildings in San Francisco, Calif., after the 1906 earthquake. (H.D. Chadwick/Wikimedia Commons) Anastasia Athanasiou, Concordia University Steady population growth and the accompanying rise...
Posted On 08 Nov 2021
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Sun-powered golden sandwich boosts energy

...split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and thus another source of renewable energy. Misawa H. et al., Nature Nanotechnology, July 30, 2018 Right now, most of the world’s photovoltaic cells...
Posted On 13 Oct 2018
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Rethinking Urban Sprawl

  As the world’s cities are growing, urban sprawl is getting worse. An new OECD study of 1,100 cities shows 60% of space is now low-density. This erratic city growth...
Posted On 13 Jul 2018
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Strong policy, falling battery costs drive record year for electric cars

...for electric car sales, with over 39% of new sales in 2017. Iceland follows at 11.7%, then Sweden at 6.3%. Additionally, the capacity to refine and process raw cobalt is...
Posted On 30 May 2018
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A world in transformation: World Energy Outlook 2017

...global power markets as it becomes the cheapest source of electricity generation in many places, including China and India,” said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director. “Electric vehicles...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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Energy Efficiency – Generating more value from the energy we use

...new report by the International Energy Agency. Global energy intensity – the energy used per unit of gross domestic product – fell by 1.8% in 2016, a sign the global...
Posted On 05 Oct 2017
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