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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts. Only North Africa has consumption rates of the same order of magnitude.

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Researchers say world faces air pollution pandemic

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In comparison, tobacco smoking shortens life expectancy by an average of 2.2 They also found that air pollution had a greater effect on shortening lives in older people, with the exception of deaths in children aged under five in low income countries, such as Africa and South Asia. million premature deaths a year in 2015.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Take Africa in particular: The continent is less a component of the cable network than an extension of it. All this means that, to get from Africa to the Internet hubs of North America or east Asia, traffic has to go either through the Middle East or Europe. Now, there are over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber wound around the world.

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Carnegie study finds climate impact of particulates varies greatly depending on where the pollution originated

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However, aerosols have a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than the gases responsible for global warming, resulting in an atmospheric distribution that varies by region, especially in comparison to carbon dioxide. For example, aerosols from India cool their country of origin 20 times more than they cool the planet.

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Tesla Model 3, Model X are Google’s Most Searched for EVs globally

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The Tesla Model 3 sedan and the Tesla Model X SUV are Google’s most searched for electric vehicles globally, according to new data from a price comparison website. The Model X claimed notable areas like Elon Musk’s home country of South Africa and other regions like Egypt, Kazakhstan, Guyana, and Nambia.

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JRC: 76.5% of world’s population in urban areas as of 2015

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Some, like those in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are seeing particularly fast urbanization. The comparison is possible due to the application of the European definition of urban and rural areas to the JRC’s Global Human Settlement Layer data. However, it’s not the same for all countries and territories.

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Cirium: 21 years of airline passenger traffic growth wiped out in 2020

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In comparison to last year, passenger traffic is estimated to be down 67% in 2020. Meanwhile, China Southern Airlines (487,700 flights) topped the tables in the Asia-Pacific, Ryanair in Europe (205,000 flights), Azul in Latin America (134,000 flights) and Qatar Airways (82,400 flights) in the Middle East and Africa.

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