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The Seychelles Public Transport Corporation is Getting 22 Electric Buses!

CleanTechnica EVs

The Seychelles Public Transport Corporation operates a fleet of about 250 buses of different types. The Seychelles Nation newspaper reports that the Seychelles Public Transport Corporation’s (SPTC) fleet replacement policy stipulates that buses can only be kept in […]. They have 28-, 38-, and 52-seater buses.

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Seychelles Really Should Push To Become The Norway of Africa & Lead In EV Adoption

CleanTechnica EVs

Norway leads the world in terms of EV market share for new car sales. Last month, plug-in electric vehicles took 89.3% share of the auto market. Electric cars are now so mainstream in Norway that Tesla’s Model Y recently beat a 53-year-old sales record. In 1969, 16,699 Volkswagen Beetles were sold in Norway. No vehicle […].

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Utilising the potential of citizen science to tackle marine litter

Innovation News Network

Volunteer clean-ups have resulted in almost nine tonnes of marine litter being cleared from beaches across the Seychelles. Read more here. The post Utilising the potential of citizen science to tackle marine litter appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

Cars That Think

A few cables connect Indian Ocean islands—such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles—to the African mainland. It leaves glaring gaps in the southern seas—specifically, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. The gaps aren’t completely empty.

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Study Finds Indian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas; Climate Change Partly Responsible

Green Car Congress

The study indicated that the Seychelles Islands and Zanzibar off Tanzania’s coastline show the largest sea level drop. —Weiqing Han, CU, lead author. While several areas in the Indian Ocean region are experiencing sea-level rise, sea level is lowering in other areas. Global sea-level patterns are not geographically uniform.

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Lancet Series: Improving road safety measures could save half a million lives every year worldwide

Green Car Congress

The largest increases in transport injury death rate have been in Paraguay (+97%), Djibouti (+69%), Lesotho (+50%), and the Seychelles (+41%). The findings reveal that although the death rates among 10-24 year olds declined by a third between 1990 and 2019 (from 17.5 a year between 2010 and 2019 compared to the fall of 2.4%

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

Green Car Congress

Seychelles ranks as the most-improved country over the past decade, due largely to its commitment to combating greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainability outcomes among emerging economies remains highly variable.

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