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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester.

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Study finds global carbon emissions reached 10 billion tonnes in 2010

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parts per million. each year between 2000 and 2010—three times the rate of increase during the 1990s. Global CO 2 emissions since 2000 are tracking the high end of the projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which far exceed two degrees warming by 2100.

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Video Friday: Liquid Metal Bubble Actuator

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In a quest to ease some of said burdens, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Autodesk Research, and Texas A&M University came up with a method to automatically assemble products that’s accurate, efficient and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies. UPenn ].

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Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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Heavily polluted locations in parts of the East, Midwest, and West Coast in which ozone already frequently exceeds recommended levels could face unhealthy air during most of the summer. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5. Preliminary global mean CO 2 concentrations in February 2014 were 398.06 Supercomputing. petaflop Yellowstone supercomputer.

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Constant Ratio Of Airborne To Absorbed CO2 In Carbon Cycle May Indicate Resilient Carbon Sinks

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Source: Wolfgang Knorr, Bristol University. The study, which was conducted by Wolfgang Knorr of the University of Bristol, UK, may have implications for upcoming climate negotiations, particularly with regard to deforestation and other land-use changes. Thinner lines represent observed. Click to enlarge. per decade. Source: Woods Hole.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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” Musk pointed to data from the information service World of Statistics showing that the price of lithium hydroxide had risen to $78,032 per metric ton from $6,800 in 2019. Also sodium is universally available. The good part is the manufacturing process is similar to Lithium-Ion cell manufacturing.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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For their part, European Commission officials predict EVs will lead to major job growth across the 27 EU countries, with up to four million battery-related new jobs being created by 2025 because of its formation of the European Battery Alliance. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1

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