Environment
City-Scale Congestion Pricing Picking Up Steam
What is congestion charging? Congestion charging or pricing is the practice of setting up cordon tolls around the city on a large-scale to charge entrants for entering during peak hours...
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Technology
Secretive Company Claims Battery Breakthrough
The Michigan start-up Sakti3 says its solid-state cells more than double the energy density of today’s best Li-Ion batteries
Environment
Wind Sets a New Record for Energy Generation in the U.K.
On Sunday night, wind power in the United Kingdom supplied more electricity than domestic coal, biomass, and hydropower (combined) and set a new record for maximum hourly output.
Space & Physics
Air Pollution Could Reveal ET's Home
If intelligent aliens are dumb enough to pollute their atmosphere, NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is powerful enough to spot some of the signs on some exoplanets. Clara Moskowitz reports
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Public Urged to Walk and Ride Bikes to Help Cut Smog
The Chinese government has identified public participation as a key element in its efforts to reverse some of the environmental damage done by more than three decades of breakneck economic growth...
Environment
More Chinese on the Coast, Less Fish in the Sea
China's coastal economic boom is burning out its marine food resources
Environment
Global Warming Has Become "Normal" Climate for Most People
Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a "normal" climate, scientists said...
Health
Government Officials May Have Mishandled DDT Superfund Site
Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too...
Singapore's Haze Law Faces Challenge in Indonesia
Indonesia's complex rules on land use and the difficulty in prosecuting foreign businesses mean Singapore has its work cut out bringing companies to book under its new cross-border air pollution law...
Environment
Home Energy Incentives Reveal Different Visions for Smart Grid
Previously, I've written about the potential for a future smart grid, where homes with solar panels and batteries intelligently interconnect to form a cleaner, more-robust distributed power system...
Environment
Wildfire Smoke Proves Worse for Global Warming
Climate change means more wildfires and wildfire smoke helps further heat the atmosphere
Environment
Top 10 (Transport) Sights in Paris
Few tourists travel explicitly to see a city’s or country's mode of transportation, but I dare say that besides transport nerds such as myself, there are examples which qualify as must-see, including Japan's Shinkansen high-speed train, Lisbon's old tram system, and the streetcars of New Orleans, among others...
Environment
Environment Has Beef with Beef
Raising beef uses 28 times more land, 11 times more water and six times more fertilizer than the average expenditures for other livestock. Cynthia Graber reports
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White House Warns Delaying Climate Action Costs Billions More
A new report shows that failing to combat global warming would dramatically increase the cost of such climate insurance
Environment
Rising Heat Wilts Wheat Crop
Satellite imaging reveals the need to change farming in South Asia as higher average temperatures hit
Technology
Moth Eyes Inspire Different Solar Cell
Moth eyes absorb almost all incident light, thus reducing reflection that predators would notice. Researchers have now used the moth eye structure as the basis of a highly efficient solar absorbing cell...
Can 1 Power Plant Clean Up Coal and Make Money?
The Kemper County Energy Facility will capture the CO2 that comes from gasifying coal
Beijing Shuts Big Coal-Fired Power Plant to Ease Smog
Beijing has closed the first of four large coal-fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency...
Environment
China and the U.S. Partner to Boost Search for CO2 Capture
A new agreement between China and the U.S. may stimulate research on capturing CO2 pollution
Environment
World's Largest Carbon Capture Facility Under Construction in Texas
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) could be a key technology option in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the world's fossil fuel power plants.
