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Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert – ET Auto

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As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert , the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way. “They are not mines, they are ecosystems,” she said. .

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

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Globally 131 million tons of ammonia were produced in 2010. 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 is well known that some higher plants can synthesize ammonia or its derivatives directly from air and water at room temperature.

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Day not far when India becomes global semiconductor hub: PM Modi – ET Auto

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The three chip manufacturing and assembly facilities will help in making India a global semiconductor hub and will also raise the country’s profile in the global semiconductor value chain,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said. It has been made possible only in 2024.

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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health. Increasing Cl ?

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For Atmus, India is key to next phase of global growth – ET Auto

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The Pune global capability centre will be one of the key pivots for this objective and will employ advanced analytics to develop cutting-edge filtration technologies. It will support the company’s global business functions of engineering, product management, IT, supply chain etc. India is very important to us as a business.

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G-7 to set up semiconductor group to coordinate supply chains – ET Auto

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Leaders from the Group of Seven are set to announce plans for a group that will help coordinate the supply chain for semiconductors that are critical to the global economy. Repairs to cables damaged in the Red Sea in February were delayed for months over disputes about who controls access to infrastructure in Yemeni waters.

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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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