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EVs like Tesla are cutting pollution levels and reducing health problems: study

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A study from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has provided some real-world observations about electric vehicles and how they positively impact the environment. Yet despite this, there are still a lot of skeptics who argue that electric vehicles do not really do anything useful for the environment.

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New Study Outlines Pathway to 76% Reduction in UK Transport Sector CO2 Emissions By 2050; Road Transport Becomes Carbon Neutral

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Requisite Behavioral changes include: Ecological driving: 8% reduction in car CO 2 emissions. Reducing motorway speed limit to 60 mph and enforcing it: 10% reduction in motorway CO 2 emissions. Under the MI Scenario, road and rail are projected to become carbon neutral (rail via 100% electrification).

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Study: Single Storm in 2005 Downed Approximately Half a Billion Trees in Amazon

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This type of storm might become more frequent in the future in the Amazon due to climate change, killing a higher number of trees and releasing more carbon to the atmosphere. The storm’s associated strong vertical winds, with speeds of up to 145 km/hour (90 mph), uprooted or snapped in half trees that were in their path.

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New E3SM exascale modeling system for earth simulation released to scientific community

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The high-resolution E3SM earth system model simulates the strongest storms with surface winds exceeding 150 mph—hurricanes that leave cold wakes that are 2 to 4 degrees Celsius cooler than their surroundings. The E3SM release will include model code and documentation, as well as output from an initial set of benchmark simulations.

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electric smart ready for production

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Reaction from customers taking part in the UK trial, including the Metropolitan Police, universities, local councils, architects and energy companies, has proved so encouraging that smart’s parent company, Daimler AG, has confirmed that the smart electric drive will go into small series production, with cars coming to the UK in early 2010. .

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Study links traffic-related pollution to risk of asthma in children

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Rice, MD, MPH, a pulmonary and critical care physician at BIDMC. Incompletely burned fossil fuels expelled from engines (especially diesel) and power plants produce black carbon—a known carcinogen and contributor to climate change. Co-authors included Nicole Liebman and Murray Mittleman MD, MPH of BIDMC; Sheryl L.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

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The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed. NIST's wind maps are used to calculate potential wind loads on new buildings, and ultimately help to support the development of building codes.

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