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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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During the first part of the project in summer 2017, the researchers on board HALO already examined the environment over European cities and conurbations such as London, Rome, Paris, Marseilles, Barcelona and the Ruhr region, as well as the Po Valley. We are conducting low-level visual flights and can only fly in cloudless areas.

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CO2 and Methane Emissions Continued Rise in 2008 Despite Economic Slump

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Emissions of two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. Pinatubo (Philippines) in 1991 each slowed CO 2 buildup for several years. Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

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trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Even less is understood about the potential risks to people and the environment—could the particles deplete the ozone layer, for example, or significantly alter the weather? In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it created a haze of particles so dense that it temporarily cooled the planet by. about 0.6 °C.

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. Renewable hydroelectric covers smaller, fast-moving bodies of water where the water flows through the generator’s turbine blades without disturbing the neighboring environment. power generation.