Новости за 16.03.2024

Tokyo (AFP) Mar 14, 2024
China should speed up its transition away from coal, the new chief US climate negotiator John Podesta said Thursday, calling for Beijing to "take their responsibility seriously". "China is the largest emitter (of greenhouse gases) in the world... They still have online in my view more coal than they need, and more coal than is good for the health of the world," Podesta said in Tokyo. He

Abidjan (AFP) Mar 14, 2024
Major internet access cuts struck several African countries Thursday because of damage to submarine communications cables, telecom operators said. "Breaks in multiple major undersea cables have affected connectivity services in several West African countries," the South African operator MTN Group said in a post on X. It said it was trying to reroute internet traffic through "alternative

Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Mar 15, 2024
Germany on Friday said that it was on track to meet its 2030 climate goals for the first time, after a sharp drop in greenhouse gas emissions last year. An increase in the use of renewables and a weaker economy weighed down by higher energy costs had contributed to a 10.1-percent plunge in carbon emissions year-on-year, the economy ministry said. Germany, Europe's biggest economy, aims t

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 08, 2024
Umbra, a developer of earth observation technology, has announced plans to release imagery obtained from its innovative pair of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. This new offering, set to be available to customers later this year, marks a key advancement in SAR data collection. Following the successful deployment of Umbra-07 and Umbra-08 satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-9 miss

London, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2024
SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX), a pioneering force in satellite communication technologies, has moved its Prime 2.0 Digital Beamformer (DBF) chip and Sx4000 Digital Payload On-Board-Processing Chip for Digital Satellite Payload into the advanced customer sampling phase. These innovations are now being evaluated by manufacturers of satellites in both low earth orbit (LEO) and g

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024
Ortel, part of the Photonics Foundries group, has unveiled its latest innovation, the Model 1786 1550 nm Laser Module, designed to significantly improve optical sensing across a variety of applications. Engineered for Continuous Wavelength (CW) operation, this laser module is a key component for systems requiring coherent optical sources for accurate sensing in environments with fluctuating temp

Washington (AFP) Mar 14, 2024
Steve Mnuchin, the former US treasury secretary under Donald Trump, said Thursday he was preparing a buyout bid of TikTok, as Beijing blasted a bill moving through Congress that would force the sale of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. TikTok has soared in popularity worldwide, but its ownership by Chinese technology giant ByteDance - and alleged subservience to Beijing's ruling Communis

Fairbanks AK (SPX) Mar 14, 2024
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are developing a new light detection and ranging instrument to help gain a better understanding of space weather enveloping Earth. The new laser radar, or lidar, will be the third for the UAF Geophysical Institute. It will measure temperature and neutrally charged iron in the upper atmosphere at altitudes of 75 to 125 miles, where the mesosphere an

Strasbourg, France (AFP) Mar 13, 2024
EU lawmakers voted Wednesday to slash 40 percent of the food waste generated by households, retailers and restaurants by 2030, while toughening rules on textile waste linked to so-called "fast-fashion". Brussels estimates that the 27-nation bloc generates 60 million tonnes of food waste a year - or 131 kilograms per person. That represents a loss of some 132 billion euros ($144 billion).

Lopare, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Mar 14, 2024
In northeast Bosnia's rolling hills, the local community is torn between fears of environmental ruin and hopes of riches from huge deposits of the critical minerals Europe needs for its green transition. The area around Lopare sits on an estimated 1.5 million tonnes of lithium carbonate, 94 million tonnes of magnesium sulfate and 17 million tonnes of boron - the stuff used to make everythin

London (AFP) Mar 14, 2024
UK oil and gas giant Shell on Thursday watered down key targets on cutting carbon emissions, sparking anger from climate campaigners, but kept its pledge for net zero by 2050. The London-listed group, which is investing heavily in renewables, revealed the news in an energy transition update published alongside its annual report. Shell said it had diluted climate targets, including on "ne