EPA EPA wants to triple level of rocket fuel chemical allowed in drinking waterThinkProgress - Kyla Mandel The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to raise the threshold for a chemical found in rocket fuel to triple the previous limit allowed …
Product Reviews The Kia Niro EV is relentlessly sensibleEngadget - Roberto BaldwinThe EV market is growing. More people are realizing that the majority of their drives don't stray far from the cities or towns they live in. While a robust charging infrastructure still isn't in place
BMW BMW Is Now Selling an $890 Electric ScooterBloomberg - Oliver Sachgau After adding the full-size X7 sport utility vehicle this year, BMW AG is getting into a much tinier category -- a 799 euro ($890) electric scooter …
Electric Vehicles Vandals shut down UK electric car sharing program within monthsElectrek - Phil DzikiyA promising electric car-sharing program in a UK town only lasted a few months, as the EVs quickly became a target for vandals who caused “exceptional levels of damage” to the cars. The initiative launched
World News NASA confirms massive fireball meteorite has crashed landed off Australiathesun.co.uk - Nicola Stow A MASSIVE fireball the "size of a small car" has crashed off the south coast of Australia, NASA has confirmed. The meteorite landed in the Great …
Fukushima Chernobyl vs. Fukushima: Which Nuclear Meltdown Was the Bigger Disaster?Live Science - Mindy Weisberger The new HBO series "Chernobyl" dramatizes the accident and horrific aftermath of a nuclear meltdown that rocked the Ukraine in 1986. Twenty-five …
Batteries ChargeMe LIR2032 and LIR2025 coin battery chargergeeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey Engineer Mohammed who has been tinkering with electronics for more than 12 years has created a coin cell battery charger capable of charging LIR2032 …
Environmentalism The bus wars are over. Electricity — and China — won.ThinkProgress - Joe Romm China has 421,000 electric buses. The United States has 300. The bus wars are over and electricity has won — thanks to a big boost from China. In fact, …
Tech Industry The Race Is on to Build a Better BatteryFortune - Jeffrey Ball At first glance, all seems serene on a spring morning at the research-and-development campus of SK Innovation, one of Korea’s biggest industrial …
Innovation These 15 urban design projects are reinventing cities for a zero-carbon futureFast Company - Adele PetersThe Reinventing Cities competition asked architects to find new uses for vacant and abandoned spaces in cities around the world. The results are an extraordinary example of what future cities could look
Technology Uber launches a Jump e-bike pilot in London, one year on from winning taxi license appealTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenAfter admitting it had to modify some of its Jump electric bikes to fix braking issues — the same problem that had halted Lyft’s e-bike business — Uber is getting back on its bike, so to speak. Almost
World Economic Forum This is how global warming is reshaping Greenlandweforum.org - Maria Caspani Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 …
Fuel Cell Are Microgrids Powered By On Site Green Energy The Next Big Thing?Forbes - Ken Silverstein, ContributorBlue solar cell panels, New York cityscape illuminated at night in the background Given the spate of natural disasters and the impact that they have had on delivering electricity, microgrids that encircle
Technology 5G could mean less time to flee a deadly hurricane, heads of NASA and NOAA warnThe Verge - Sean HollisterIt’s become increasingly clear that the wireless industry is trying to push the idea of speedy 5G wireless networks before the technology is actually ready. It’s a race, and the race is bullshit. But today,
Don Sweeney Do swarms of tiny temblors rattling the West Coast warn of a catastrophic quake?sacbee.com - By Don Sweeney Do swarms of tiny temblors rattling the West Coast warn of a catastrophic quake? A series of tiny quakes rattling California and the Pacific Northwest …
Climate Big Oil Wants to Conduct a Big Power Experiment in Your HouseBloomberg - Kelly Gilblom Big Oil wants to put a box in your hall closet that works like a human brain, can cut the lights, stop the refrigerator and will know how you move …
Nissan Leaf 2018 Nissan Leaf: Long-term EV wrap-up - RoadshowRoadshow - Chris Paukert We've spent a year with the second generation of Nissan's groundbreaking electric car. It's been easier than you might think.
Greenland We're approaching a point of no return in Greenland. Here's whyweforum.org - Aylin Woodward • Greenland's ice sheet is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s — that's even faster than scientists thought. • A new study has revealed that …
Automotive Industry Audi’s Electric Ambitions Just Killed the TT and May Cull the R8Bloomberg - Christoph Rauwald Volkswagen AG’s Audi will cease making the iconic TT coupe and replace it with a battery-powered model as the luxury brand accelerates an electric …
Technology This engineered wood radiates heat into space, potentially slashing cooling costssciencemag.org - Robert F. Service Households in the U.S. Southwest spend about $400 per year to cool their homes, about twice the national average. Now, a new type of wood that …
Technology Amazon Investors Reject Call From 7,700 Employees To Respond To Climate Changebuzzfeednews.com - Leticia Miranda Shareholders on Wednesday rejected a proposal backed by 7,700 employees to come up with a climate change plan. Amazon shareholders rejected a proposal …
Science Forgotten global ‘cataclysm’ that killed millions in 6th century is ‘virtually unheard of’Fox News - The SunIf you think you've had a bad year, spare a thought for the poor souls who lived through 536 AD – as well as the millions who didn't. The terrifying year remains one of the deadliest in humanity's history
Science Rogue ozone-destroying emissions traced to northeastern Chinasciencemag.org - Dennis Normile An international team of researchers has traced the rogue use of a banned, ozone-degrading chemical to a region centered on two provinces in …
Scooters Germany's unu aims for stylish affordability with e-scooter launchnewatlas.com - Paul Ridden E-mobility firm unu is looking to ride the growth wave of electric scooters – which it says rose by 51 percent in 2018, while sales of conventional …
Science Clever scientists locate the source of outlawed, ozone-killing pollutionMashable - Mark KaufmanDetectives have sniffed out a big source of an outlawed, invisible, and odorless gas, currently wafting through Earth's atmosphere. This chemical, CFC-11, is illegal everywhere in every country, because
Science Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolutionsmithsonianmag.com - Maddie Burakoff As scientists scramble to figure out how warming ocean temperatures will affect marine ecosystems across the globe—from bleaching coral reefs to …
Environmentalism Stunning poll finds high support for a carbon tax among Republicans under 40ThinkProgress - Joe Romm “This is the first time we’ve polled a climate plan that has real positive appeal across Republicans and Democrats.” A new survey finds Republicans …
Energy Two companies want to build the world's largest facility for sucking CO2 from the sky in Texas oil countryAxios - Ben Geman Two companies together have set their sights on Texas oil country for building the world's largest facility for sucking carbon dioxide out of the …
Science New Paper Confirms Near-Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Wild, Hydrogen-Rich MaterialGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum A team of physicists has published peer-reviewed results documenting near-room-temperature superconductivity in the hydrogen-rich compound lanthanum …
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