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Last Updated: March 12, 2024, 15:10 ISTTrack Your Green Ride Impact With Uber's 'Emission Savings' Feature. By keeping riders informed about their environmental impact, Uber aims to encourage positive change and contribute to building more sustainable communities. Uber has rolled out a cool new feature called ‘Emission Savings’ that lets riders keep tabs on how much they’re helping the environment by riding in Uber Green vehicles.This feature shows users exactly how many kilograms of CO2 emissions they’ve saved.Available…

Warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change will provide favourable conditions for Atlantic halibut, according to a new study, although what happens to their prey is uncertain.A paper published in the journal FACETS links an exponential increase in Atlantic Canadian landings over the past decade to warming ocean temperatures and predicts that trend is likely to continue under low- and high-warming scenarios in coming decades."Under both of those scenarios, we see similar trends. Even in the higher emission…

Last Updated: December 13, 2023, 13:00 ISTHow To Buy Diesel Cars Amid Tightening Emission Norms And Changing Consumer Preferences? (Representative image)Amid changing norms to tighten emissions and consumer preferences, the future of diesel vehicles in India remains a question. The stringent emission regulations, considering the extent of pollution and air quality factors, has impacted the sale of diesel-powered passenger vehicles in India.While diesel continues to remain an attractive proposition for Indian consumers, it…

Tesla, along with a handful of other automakers, have announced that they joining Climate Trace, a global emission tracking program co-founded by former US Vice President Al Gore. Climate Trace presents itself as a sort of global tracker of emissions. It writes on its website: We make meaningful climate action faster and easier by harnessing technology to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail and speed, delivering information that is relevant to all parties working to…

Crews have installed what's billed as the first wireless-charging public roadway in the U.S. for electric vehicles.It's beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit.Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their batteries while driving, idling or parking above the coils.The segment of 14th Street will be used to test and perfect the technology ahead of making it available to the public within a few years, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.Demonstrations…

Framework of model fingerprints. Explanation of the framework that is used to compute model fingerprints. The five diagnostic indicator dimensions are shown in colors: responsiveness (green), mitigation strategies (yellow), energy supply (blue), energy demand (red) and costs and effort (purple). The framework uses the statistics of the ensemble to visualize the results of a single model, resulting in a circular diagram per model. The inner circle…

Last Updated: November 27, 2023, 10:00 ISTVolvo: 50 Percent of Vehicles to Ditch Fossil Fuels by 2030, Net Zero Emission Goal by 2040. (Photo: Volvo)Volvo India accelerates towards a greener horizon, aiming for 50 percent non-fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2040. In a groundbreaking announcement at the Digital Acceleration and Transformation Expo (DATE), Volvo India’s President and Managing Director, Kamal Bali, revealed the company’s ambitious plan to have half of its vehicles powered by…

EMIT identified a cluster of 12 methane plumes within a 150-square-mile (400-square-kilometer) area of southern Uzbekistan on Sept. 1, 2022. The instrument captured the cluster within a single shot, called a scene by researchers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Since launching 16 months ago, the EMIT imaging spectrometer aboard the International Space Station has shown an ability to detect more than just surface minerals.…

In a spectacular discovery, scientists have detected aurora-like emission in the atmosphere of the Sun.At an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) above a burgeoning sunspot growing in the solar photosphere, a team of astronomers led by Sijie Yu of the New Jersey Institute of Technology recorded a never-before-seen type of long-lasting radio emission.The Sun emits all kinds of radiation as it goes about its business, but this, the team says, resembled nothing so much as an aurora."We've detected a peculiar…

The 2018 data shows how much CO2 the energy sector in Mongolia emitted, comparing two calculation methods. One is Mongolia's BUR2 using the bottom-up approach (left) and EDGAR (right). The other is the calculation result from this study using the hybrid approach (center) based on the top-down approach. The green represents CO2 emissions for all of Mongolia, while the red indicates emissions from Ulaanbaatar city. Note that for BUR and top-down data, the…