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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.

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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 by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Ted Lieu To The Rescue! Heroic Climate Champion Saves Community Choice Aggregation.

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You go to climate battle with the Ted Lieu you have, not the Ted Lieu you wished you had. Waxman has been our heroic climate champion for many years now and is retiring. And the issue that Ted grabbed and commanded and was using to transform himself into a climate legend was Community Choice Aggregation. And I get that.

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Berkeley researchers propose salted biomass as scalable, economical and stable carbon capture and storage solution

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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants. We’re claiming that proper engineering can solve 100% of the climate crisis, at manageable cost.

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Study finds that steady reduction in fossil fuel emissions will not result in short-term warming spike

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One view advanced in some studies attempting to model future climate is that cleaning up fossil-fuel air pollution rapidly will unintentionally lead to a near-term rise in atmospheric warming of about a half-degree Celsius, which might take up to a century to reverse. Smith, research fellow at the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds.

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BMW CEO warns against premature phaseout of combustion engines: “I don’t think that would help the climate or anyone else”

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According to the executive, a premature end to the internal combustion engine would not be preferable, and it probably won’t be good for the environment either. . As noted in an Automobilwoche report, the CEO was firm in the idea that it would be unwise to abandon ICE technologies too soon.

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International collaboration develops progressive vision for urban production at the BMW Group; OMA and 3XN

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In their proposal, OMA and 3XN present a union of production and the urban environment, laying the foundation for the site’s progressive development and for efficient vehicle production at the BMW Group. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, BMW AG Board Member for Production.

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