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Their study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Ozone is the main ingredient in smog and has been studied since it began choking cities in the US in the early 1950s. levels continue to fall, ozone will continue worsening,said Ke Li, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the study.

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From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there are still major uncertainties regarding the quantities and distribution of soot in the atmosphere.

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The work, published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control , confirms earlier studies based on a greatly extended data basis. The new study by GEOMAR scientists confirms this initial estimate on a larger data basis. Matthias Haeckel from GEOMAR, who lead the study. Photo: ROV team/GEOMAR.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A new study, led by a team from The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, has found that in 2010, about 2.7 The open-access study is published in the journal. The study did not quantify the risk in specific locations, but rather used the average ambient PM 2.5 Environment International. Malley et al.

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MAY 12, 2020

Two new studies in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters find nitrogen dioxide pollution over northern China, Western Europe and the US decreased by as much as 60% in early 2020 as compared to the same time last year. In addition to nitrogen dioxide, one of the new studies finds PM 2.5 Grey areas indicate no valid data.

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Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery-electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain. Life cycle climate change contribution of current (production year 2017) and future (production year 2040) electric vehicles per kilometer driven. Credit: ACS, Cox et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

According to a new study by Bosch, the use of e-fuels—synthetic fuels based on renewable energy—in Europe by 2050 as a scheduled supplement to electrification could save up to 2.8 Achieving our future climate targets calls for other intelligent solutions apart from electromobility. Bottom: Fuel pathways. Source: Bosch.

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JULY 17, 2017

Exposure to ozone, long associated with impaired lung function, is also connected to health changes that can cause cardiovascular disease such as heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, according to a new study of Chinese adults. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

A team from the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) reports that while average certified fuel consumption (FC) decreased by 15% between 2008 and 2017, real-world FC remained unchanged, resulting in a fuel consumption gap increase from 12% to 30%. The paper is published in the journal Energy Policy. —Dror et al.

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Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from global shipping are on the rise again, according to a new study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The study highlights that three ship classes and six flag states (country of registration) are responsible for the majority of emissions. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 14, 2017

A new study finds that a substantial chunk of summer sea ice loss in recent decades was due to natural variability in the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean. The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change.

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The day reminds us of the need to protect our planet and its ecosystems against the worsening climate crisis. The climate crisis is threatening people across the world, as well as every species of animal and plant life. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences.

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JUNE 27, 2017

According to a new study led by a team at Duke University, airborne particulate matter and dust are cutting solar photovoltaic energy output by more than 25% in certain parts of the world, with roughly equal contributions from ambient PM and PM deposited on photovoltaic surfaces. So we put together a comprehensive model to do just that.

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al.

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JULY 31, 2019

CSIRO scientists have developed a new way to account for ozone in computer simulations of the climate. Until now, one number represented this complicated deposition process in advanced global climate and chemistry models. This means reduced uncertainties in climate change projections. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-3749-2017.

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MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. 2017.05.015.

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In China, people breathe ozone-laden air two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new international study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2017 for one ozone metric. 2017 are included. 2014) are included. Cooper, Martin G.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

According to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 38% of black carbon in the Russian Arctic originates from transport and 35% from residential heating sources, while open fires, power plants, and gas flaring are responsible for only 12%, 9%, and 6% respectively. 1613401114.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on US roads during 2017 amid a marked increase in the percentage of drivers observed interacting with cellphones, new IIHS research indicates. About 37,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2017, the most recent year of data available.

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Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. The open access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports. Click to enlarge. —Can Li.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The findings of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, with colleagues at UC Berkeley, suggest that changing atmospheric NO x levels over the next two decades will likely significantly reduce the effectiveness of stricter new gasoline vehicle emissions standards in reducing concentrations of secondary organic aerosol (SOA).

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MAY 15, 2017

A new international study has found that laboratory tests of nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel vehicles significantly underestimate the real-world emissions by as much as 50%. The team then computed the impacts on health, crops and climate. A paper on the work is published in the journal Nature. —Chris Malley.

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MARCH 20, 2017

The Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented international determination to act on climate. To meet the climate goals set in the Paris Agreement and keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees, the CO 2 emission intensity of the global economy would need to be reduced by 85% in 35 years. —IRENA Director-General Adnan Z.

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For the study, the team compared the performance of 49,000 BEVs and 73,000 PHEVs in Germany and the US. Patrick Plötz, who leads the study at Fraunhofer ISI. The study was conducted within the framework of the “ Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe ” (Profile Region Mobility Systems Karlsruhe). —Plötz et al.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. As a result, they reported that they had almost completely eliminated HFC-23 emissions by 2017.

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Even at high concentrations of NO x , which typically rapidly terminates autoxidation in urban areas, the studied C 6 –C 10 alkanes produce considerable amounts of highly oxygenated products that can contribute to urban organic aerosol. —Mani Sarathy, co-corresponding author. Rissanen, M.P., Garmash, O., Quéléver, L., Monge-Palacios, M.,

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—Kalra and Groves (2017). —Nidhi Kalra, co-author of the study and director of RAND’s San Francisco office. —David Groves, study co-author and co-director of RAND’s Water and Climate Resilience Center. It’s the very definition of perfect being the enemy of good. by Nidhi Kalra, David G.

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However, the study also concluded that given the current short payback period for investment demanded by the trucking industry, a number of the technologies that could enable such savings would not be adopted, absent regulation or a longer payback period. million barrels per day. The results are specific to long-haul trucks.

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The new phase of research includes an outdoor field study that will grow naturally occurring algae in several contained ponds in California. Both companies are continuing with fundamental research on algae biology in their laboratories as the field study advances. ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Inc. —Oliver Fetzer, Ph.D.,

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This puts the US on track to meet its annual goals for GHG reduction under the Paris Climate Accord. If traffic remained reduced for one year, the reduction in VMT would allow California to meet half of its 2050 climate change target. California has a target of 80% reduction in GHG from 1990 levels by 2050.

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However, the report points to studies which show that their impact on the environment is not always positive. Similarly, studies show that ride-hailing apps such as Uber or Lyft do little to reduce emissions or congestion and actually draw people away from public transport. in 2017 to 8.1% g CO 2 per kilometer.

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The examined data were for 1990 and 2017. The analysis is an update of a study published in 2016. The data in the table below show that the largest relative changes from 1990 to 2017 in greenhouse gas emissions by economic sector occurred in industry (a decrease from 36.3% The raw data came from EPA.

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MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al. —Comer et al.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2017, the Hydrogen Council ( earlier post ) is a global CEO initiative to foster the role of hydrogen technologies in the global energy transition. The newcomers almost double Council membership one year on from its launch. This is corporate leadership at scale?multinationals

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The Model 3 is still a fairly new car on the road, having only started its customer deliveries in July 2017. Bloomberg published an extensive study of Model 3 owners back in 2019. Bloomberg published an extensive study of Model 3 owners back in 2019. Check out Bloomberg ‘s 2023 Tesla ownership study here.

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Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies in the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies. The Saudi government has announced plans to diversify its economy, thereby reducing its exposure to climate risk, by selling a 5% portion of Saudi Aramco, via an initial public offering (IPO) of ownership shares. —Krane (2017).

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