Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

Biodiverse plantings provide ecosystem services such as pollination, pest protection, and wildlife conservation that often benefit other cropping systems in the landscape, and relatively little plant diversity can provide disproportionately large benefits.

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Innovation News Network

MARCH 18, 2024

Genomic expert Neil Ward from PacBio outlines the potential of genomic sequencing in understanding and addressing threats to wildlife. The post How genomic sequencing is transforming biodiversity conservation appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Mexico’s Federal Ministry of the Environment recently notified Tesla in the United States of the permit approval. Tesla Gigafactory Mexico received approval for construction in the form of federal land use permits. Tesla is at the forefront of Governor Sepúlveda’s presidential campaign for next year’s election.

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MARCH 22, 2014

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2019

We urge other European countries to follow France’s lead and stop forcing drivers to pay for fake ‘green’ fuels that destroy the world’s rainforests and their wildlife. —Laura Buffet, clean fuels director with the European NGO federation Transport & Environment (T&E).

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APRIL 4, 2010

Available data indicate that herbaceous and woody plants can improve soil characteristics, reduce soil water and wind erosion, filter pollutants in runoff, sequester soil organic carbon, reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases, and improve wildlife habitat and diversity. Agron J 102:403-419 doi: 10.2134/agronj2009.0333.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2019

Pollution from petroleum hydrocarbons such as diesel, which is widely used for heating, transportation and power generation poses a threat to wildlife in Antarctica. Optimization improved the ability of ADL15 to degrade diesel in a test environment from 22.39% to 38.32%, and of ADL36 from 83.75% to 99.89%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Implementation Plan addresses the following components: air quality; acid sensitive lakes and accumulated aerial deposition; water quantity/quality; aquatic ecosystem health—fish status and health, benthic invertebrates and other aquatic biota; wildlife toxicology; terrestrial biodiversity and habitat disturbance; and data management.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Our models show a wide range of outcomes, but they indicate that wild pigs are most likely currently uprooting an area of around 36,000 to 124,000 square kilometers, in environments where they’re not native.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Suita Environment Learning association for the Future (SELF).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Through carbon farming, farmers and ranchers could reap an additional source of cash flow, one that also would help restore native ecological systems that would generate fish and wildlife benefits, according to the working group. The 45 stakeholders include but are not limited to experts from Gensler Inc.; King Ranch Inc.;

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments. A team of biologists built a custom Kinefox GPS tracker that wildlife—including this European bison test subject—can recharge simply by moving around as usual. Kinefox is open source, with files published on GitHub.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Wildlife trafficking is a lucrative market. The destruction speaks for itself; species decimated, environments degraded, and innocent people victimized. Wildlife trafficking concerns both conservation and global security, with significant effects across the international community. Ninety percent of the creatures involved die.

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Teslarati

JULY 4, 2022

For National Parks, EVs offer less noise that would normally disturb local wildlife, and EVs lack hazardous chemicals and emissions that can be detrimental to these pristine locations (engine oils, fuels, and tailpipe emissions). What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Projects will work to reduce the LCOE through multiple approaches, including increasing generation efficiency, increasing rotor area per unit of equivalent mass, lowering operation and maintenance costs, minimizing potential impacts on the surrounding environment, and maximizing system reliability. SRI International.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, on a 2019 test flight of SuperBIT and its data recovery , Massey and Sirks were surprised to find that the Raspberry Pi was overheating—despite the frigid environment. In the updated version of the system, the researchers added a radiator system with a copper tube linking the computer to the surrounding environment.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 6, 2009

My friends at the World Wildlife Fund just released this absolutely terrific new video on their ground breaking Climate Witness/Climate Take Action project. Tags: environment. Watch it right now. Then tell them what’s happening where YOU live. I did, and you can read it here.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent, and Alberta’s Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Diana McQueen toured several of the new oil sands monitoring stations now in place in the early stages of implementation of the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Signing for Québec were the Minister of International Relations, La Francophonie and External Trade, Jean-François Lisée and the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks, Yves-François Blanchet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Fuels Policy'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

—Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks, Yves-François Blanchet. As a result of this agreement, Québec will be in a position to achieve its emission targets, and businesses will have an innovative and flexible tool enabling them to participate in the effort.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

The civil enforcement effort is supervised by Assistant Attorney General Moreno for the Environment and Natural Resources Division and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Hauck of the Civil Division. Numerous Environment Division and Civil Division lawyers are pursuing the civil enforcement action, led by Steve O’Rourke and R.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2023

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

They then used measurements of levels of methylmercury in the food web and unique chemical tracers for where each food item, such as salmon or trout, obtained its methylmercury to project levels of the toxin in different species of fish and wildlife. to 10-fold depending on time spent foraging in different environments.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

The US Department of the Interior released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2012

This year’s Balex Delta oil spill response exercise, which is held annually under the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, is taking place today in the sea area outside Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is coordinating the exercise. Weekly ship traffic in the Baltic Sea.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

They can remain in the environment for extended periods of time and can be harmful to wildlife, plants and humans. Petroleum hydrocarbons are a valuable resource, but can also be pretty nasty environmental contaminants. Better tools to detect them makes a rapid response possible. Sean Forrester, CSIRO scientist.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is jointly funding the research program with the Natural Environment Research Councils (NERC). The ocean acidification research program is expected to run for five years, with NERC funding £7.7 million and Defra contributing £2.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

The study was supported by the Initiative for RenewableEnergy and the Environment at the University of Minnesota. For example, a desire to improve water quality or wildlife habit while maintaining productivity and profitability may define decision making in this context.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The EP describes all exploration activities planned by the operator, including the timing of these activities, information concerning drilling vessels, the location of each planned well, and actions to be taken to meet important safety and environmental standards and to protect workers, resources, wildlife and access to subsistence use areas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Among the conditions of approval is the requirement that Shell obtain all necessary permits from other agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Studies commissioned by Honda Transmission indicate that wind-generated power is a cost-effective source of electricity for the plant and that the project will not adversely impact local wildlife or the environment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The proposed revisions were based on scientific evidence about ozone and its effects on people and the environment, and resulted from a reconsideration of the primary and secondary ozone standards set at 0.075 ppm in 2008. Earlier post.) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

will pay a $68-million criminal fine and a total $24 million community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for the benefit of the riparian environment and ecosystems of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Projects were awarded in four areas: policy options for and impacts on regional biofuels production systems; impacts of regional bioenergy feedstock production systems on wildlife and pollinators; socioeconomic impacts of biofuels on rural communities; and. environmental implications of direct and indirect land use change.

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