Новости за 04.03.2024

Abiquiu, United States (AFP) March 2, 2024
An entire town filled with nuclear laboratories, built from scratch in the remote mountains of New Mexico, with every single person involved sworn to secrecy? It is not just the plot of "Oppenheimer," but also the story of how Christopher Nolan's Oscar-nominated movie about the invention of the atomic bomb was made. "This is the most I've ever spoken about it," said David Manzanares, fie

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) March 2, 2024
Changes Apple is making to its services in the European Union "make a mockery" of new antitrust rules in the bloc, 34 digital organisations complained to the European Commission this week. They include app makers Epic Games and Spotify. "We are very concerned that Apple's proposed scheme for compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA)... will not meet the law's requirements, therefore

Colombo (AFP) March 1, 2024
Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power generation facilities to an Indian company after scrapping a tender won by a Chinese firm. New Delhi has long been concerned about growing Chinese influence in the island nation, which sits near key global shipping lanes and which India considers to be within its sphere of influence. The project, initially

Washington (AFP) March 1, 2024
Veteran envoy John Kerry called Friday for the United States to find major new climate finance methods, warning of "huge disappointment" if historic promises to transition from fossil fuels go unheeded. Kerry, who is stepping down as the US climate envoy, described an agreement in December in Dubai at the last UN summit as historic for its call on the planet to move away from fossil fuels in

Ottawa (AFP) Feb 29, 2024
Canada's Saskatchewan province announced Thursday it will not collect and remit a federal carbon tax on natural gas for home heating, setting up a fight over national climate policy. Dustin Duncan, the local minister in charge of the western plains province's utility SaskEnergy, made the announcement in a video posted on social media on the last day before a payment deadline for January.

Pierre-Benite, France (AFP) March 2, 2024
Environmental activists broke into a French chemicals site Saturday to denounce the production of so-called "forever chemicals" - PFAS compounds - leading to eight arrests, local officials said. Around 300 people from the Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate groups cut through fences to reach the Arkema site at Pierre-Benite factory near Lyon in southeast France, a spokesman for the

Paris (AFP) March 1, 2024
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose to a record level in 2023, but the growth slowed from previous years thanks to continued expansion of clean technologies, the International Energy Agency said Friday. CO2 emissions from energy rose by 1.1 percent in 2023, increasing by 410 million tonnes to a record 37.4 billion tonnes, slowing down from a gain of 490 million tonnes in 2022, the I

United Nations, United States (AFP) March 1, 2024
Ocean conservationists called Friday for countries to speed up their ratification of a treaty to protect the high seas, a year after the historic text was approved by UN member states. The treaty - which took 15 years to be approved - aims to protect marine ecosystems that are vital to humanity but under threat by pollution. Members of the United Nations finalized it in March last yea

Grunheide, Germany (AFP) Feb 29, 2024
Environmental activists occupying a forest close to Tesla's factory near Berlin said Thursday they want to stop the electric vehicle maker's German expansion plans and protect local groundwater. Tesla wants to expand its factory in Gruenheide, southeast of the capital, by 170 hectares (420 acres) and boost production up to one million vehicles annually. But the environmental group Robin

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of aerial electric vehicles, particularly those employing vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities, the efficiency and longevity of lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are of paramount importance. A recent study published in ACS Energy Letters sheds light on a significant advancement in LiB technology, with implications not only for improving battery performance i

Paris (AFP) March 1, 2024
Extraction of Earth's natural resources could surge 60 percent by 2060, imperilling climate goals and economic prosperity, the UN said Friday, calling for dramatic changes in energy, food, transport and housing. Enormous expansion of infrastructure, energy demand and consumer consumption over the last half century, particularly in wealthier countries, has driven a tripling of the world's us

St Louis MO (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. The story cited the U.S. Navy as saying that the Perceptron would lead to machines that "will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence." More than six decades later, similar claim

Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Jellyfish can't do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don't even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can easily journey to the depths of the oceans in a way that humans, despite all our sophistication, cannot. But what if humans could have jellyfish explore the oceans on our behalf, reporting back what they find? New research conducted at Caltech aims to make that a realit