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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-rich water.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from agricultural operations or specific industrial processes (GWP = 298).

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Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

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Natural gas or coal is used as the energy source of the ammonia industry. Globally 245 million tons of CO 2 were released by the ammonia industry in 2010 equivalent to about 50% of the UK CO 2 emissions (495.8 In industry, extensive purification of N 2 and H 2 is needed and this remarkably increases the overall cost of the process.

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Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters

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But there are very few places to test marine robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial-intelligence (RAS-AI) technologies, which hampers the growth of the industry, Olsen says. We’re only just starting to get a feel for what marine autonomous systems can do—not just for our tropical marine waters but in general,” she says.

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IEEE President’s Note: Young Technologists Grow Their Careers With IEEE

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The challenges include a shortage of food, clean water, health care, and affordable energy. A force for change When I speak with young and early-career professionals, I am always gratified to discover just how excited they are to work on climate change and sustainability issues.

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Major truck OEMs form PACT to advocate for EV infrastructure development – Charged EVs

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The pursuit of contradictory goals is a basic fact of human nature, and the commercial truck industry is no exception. Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

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The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels. In 2015, the U.S.

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