Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The BMW Group has commissioned two US universities to conduct a scientific analysis of water consumption in the lithium extraction process. The aim of the University of Alaska-Anchorage and University of Massachusetts-Amherst study will be to investigate the impacts of lithium extraction on the hydrologic environment in Latin America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests. Craig Smith , an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , who has led seven research expeditions to the CCZ. million to assess the impacts of deep-sea mining in the CCZ.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

A team of researchers led by Brown University has found that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa—the second-oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world—has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. An estimated 10 million people live near the lake, and they depend upon it for drinking water and for food.

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