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JRC: 76.5% of world’s population in urban areas as of 2015

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According to the Atlas, the most urbanized EU country is Malta, where 95% of the population live in urban areas. Institutions that address urbanization at the regional and global level have all been involved in co-designing the methodology, and are now using the resulting datasets.

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How to Keep the Automotive Chip Shortage From Happening Again

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“The automotive supply chain is a very complicated animal,” said Bob O’Donnell president of TECHnalysis Research at an automotive technology panel held Monday at GlobalFoundries Fab 8 in Malta, N.Y. The move to battery electric vehicles presents a major chance to simplify the way the electronic systems in vehicles are designed.

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Air pollutant emission 2010 limits exceeded in twelve EU Member States; road transport NOx a main factor

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The ceilings set in the NEC directive were designed to reduce such adverse impacts by an agreed amount. Preliminary analysis shows eleven Member States exceeding their respective NO x ceilings (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden).

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Instead, Maltese authorities told the ship’s captain to wait for vessels from Malta to pick up the migrants. The private, Malta-based vessels picked up the survivors, steamed about 237 kilometers south, and handed over the migrants to authorities in Libya, which was and is in the midst of a civil war, rather than return to Malta, 160 km away.

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EEA Report: Trends in European Transport Are Heading in the Wrong Direction

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Well-designed policies to manage demand for transport can reduce transport volumes. —Professor Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director. This would improve the transport efficiency of the economy and decouple transport growth from economic growth. Transport at a crossroads. EEA Report No 3/2009 ).

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DNV and Lloyd’s Register recertify Leclanché marine storage system with new 65 Ah high energy battery cells

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Safety is a critical design element of the MRS with its integrated cooling and firefighting systems, including independent ventilation ducting system to actively extract hot and flammable gases, which together reduce the risk of thermal propagation to virtually zero. Pack voltages are available up to 1100 V DC.

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U.S. Passes Landmark Law to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

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GlobalFoundries is doing a $1-billion addition in Malta , N.Y. According to reports , chip designers whose processors are manufactured by others, including AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, indicated their displeasure that they would not get in on the act. It might be all of that.