Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Professor Barbara Maher, from Lancaster Environment Centre, and colleagues (from Oxford, Glasgow, Manchester and Mexico City) used spectroscopic analysis to identify the particles as magnetite. Particles smaller than 200 nm are small enough to enter the brain directly through the olfactory nerve after breathing air pollution through the nose.

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Pollution Mexico India 2003 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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South America Gasoline America Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

DNV GL is studying a number of alternative fuels or energy carriers that are already used or could be potentially used in shipping in the future. LNG bunkering for ships is currently only available in a number of places in Europe, Incheon (Korea) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) but the world’s bunkering grid is developing.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas-Electric Mariner 231