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Most of world’s biggest firms ‘unlikely’ to meet Paris climate targets | Environment
More than four fifths of the world’s largest companies are unlikely to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement by 2050, according to fresh analysis of their climate disclosures. A study of almost 3,000 publicly listed companies found that just 18% have disclosed plans that are aligned with goals to limit rising …
GREENPATH™ Science Launches Calibration Technology, the Game Changer to CBD Industry | Nation & World
LOS ANGELES – September 20, 2019 – ( Newswire.com ) In a time when “everything hemp” is seemingly up for grabs in the business community, serious CBD advocates, manufacturers and distributors will come together at the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition™ ( CWCBE ). Millions of people are using CBD for the treatment of …
GREENPATH™ Science Launches Calibration Technology, the Game Changer to CBD Industry |
LOS ANGELES – September 20, 2019 – ( Newswire.com ) In a time when “everything hemp” is seemingly up for grabs in the business community, serious CBD advocates, manufacturers and distributors will come together at the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition™ ( CWCBE ). Millions of people are using CBD for the treatment of …
Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates | Environment
8.41am EDT 08:41 Kate Connolly Numbers at Berlin‘s Klimastreik have reached 100,000, it has just been announced Carola Rackete, the SeaWatch Captain who was arrested in Italy several weeks ago addressed Berlin’s Klimastreik, to huge applause. She told them: We adults are responsible for the fact that the earth is dying….we should not be under …
Pre-first world war battleship granted special protection | Science
The wreck of a battleship that ran aground more than a century ago has been granted special protection after wounded military veterans carried out the first full archaeological survey of the remains. HMS Montagu, a pre-first world war Duncan-class British battleship was wrecked in 1906 on Lundy island, off the Devon coast, while taking part …
A New Jersey Soil Bacteria Is First to Break Down Toxic ‘Forever Chemical’
The experimental setup.Photo: David Kelly Crow Scientists have found a bacteria capable of breaking down toxic “forever chemicals” in New Jersey soil. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, called PFAS, are commonly found in in products like water-repellant fabrics and paints, disposable restaurant bowls, and even dental floss. They’re also toxic pollutants that are incredibly difficult to break …
UN launches drive to suck back carbon and reverse climate change | World news
A new effort to rally governments and corporations behind technologies that suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to help stave off disastrous global heating will be launched at the United Nations on Tuesday. The first annual Global Climate Restoration Forum, held in New York, aims to spur international support for emerging and sometimes controversial methods …
Ministry of Science and Technology Launches National Centre for Clean Coal R&D
Prof Anurag Kumar, Director of IISc, and Harsh Vardhan, Minister for Science & Technology, during the Inauguration of National centre for Clean Coal research and development, Bangalore; Sept 16, 2019. (Photo Credits: Mohammed Asad/BCCL Bengaluru) Minister of Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Monday inaugurated the National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development …
Technion researchers develop eco-friendly hydrogen production technology – HEALTH & SCIENCE
Dr. Hen Dotan , Avigail Landman , Prof. Avner Rothschild and Prof. Gideon Grader. (photo credit: CHEN GALILI) Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative, clean, inexpensive, and safe hydrogen production technology which would improve production efficiency from approximately 75% to 98.7%. With 99% of the hydrogen being produced …
‘Americans are waking up’: two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed | Science
Two-thirds of Americans believe climate change is either a crisis or a serious problem, with a majority wanting immediate action to address global heating and its damaging consequences, major new polling has found. Interactive Amid a Democratic primary shaped by unprecedented alarm over the climate crisis and an insurgent youth climate movement that is sweeping …
