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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. Outside Japan. Climate Change. OISCA-Japan.

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Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

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The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. This study, done in collaboration between NTU and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, showed that a 0.1 —First author Associate Professor Steve Yim, from NTU’s Asian School of the Environment, who holds an appointment at LKCMedicine.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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New York in US, Tokyo in Japan). Credit: The University of Hong Kong. Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. By 2050, the global population is expected to soar to 9.7

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Peking University team develops method for modeling historical global black carbon emissions from motor vehicles with reduced uncertainty

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Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The competition, which was supported by the IEEE Japan Council and the IEEE New Initiatives Committee , was open to all IEEE members and student members. Confronting climate change and cybersecurity threats The other four winning comics cover artificial intelligence, climate change, and cybersecurity.

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Smith School report recommends individual governments take more national and bi-lateral actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions

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The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. The Green Climate Fund set up in Cancun marked one way in achieving this.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Burrows, the Principal Investigator of the mission and a professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen.

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