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  Washington (AFP) Nov 26, 2024 US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he intends to impose sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China in response to illegal drug trade and immigration. In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with duties on all goods entering the country. "On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25 percent tariff on ALL products ... read more |
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Engineers develop additive for affordable renewable energy storageLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 Advancing the promise of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers have designed a water-soluble chemical additive to improve bromide-based aqueous ... more  
MIT, Harvard and Mass General lead 408 MW green energy pushBoston MA (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 MIT is co-leading an effort to enable the development of two new large-scale renewable energy projects in regions with carbon-intensive electrical grids: Big Elm Solar in Bell County, Texas, came on ... more  
Powering future electric vehicles with smarter and safer battery technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 A comprehensive review from Jamia Millia Islamia University and collaborating institutions explores critical challenges and emerging advancements in electric vehicle (EV) battery technology. The stu ... more  
Rapid expansion of wildland-urban interface linked to wildfire risks worldwide study findsSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 16, 2024 The rapid spread of human development into natural landscapes has significantly expanded the wildland-urban interface (WUI), increasing wildfire risks globally, a recent study indicates. A tea ... more |
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EU launches WTO challenge against China's brandy dutiesBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 25, 2024 The European Union on Monday formally launched a challenge at the World Trade Organization against China's move to impose anti-dumping measures on brandy imported from the bloc. ... more |
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Police arrest 170 after floating blockade of Australian coal portSydney (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 Australian police arrested 170 climate activists over the weekend after their floating blockade briefly disrupted activity at one of the world's largest coal ports. ... more  
Petrol industry embraces plastics while navigating energy shiftWashington (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 Amid the inexorable shift toward more electric vehicles, oil and gas producers are looking increasingly to plastics to help keep them afloat, even if that sector faces challenges of its own. ... more  
Climate finance's 'new era' shows new political realitiesBaku (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 Rich countries' promise of $300 billion a year in climate finance brought fury at talks in Baku from poor nations that found it too paltry, but it also shows a shift in global political realities. ... more 
Concern as climate talks stalls on fossil fuels pledgeParis (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried by experts as a "worrying" setback to global progress on curbing warming. ... more |
 
Mounting economic costs of India's killer smogNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 Noxious smog smothering the plains of north India is not only choking the lungs of residents and killing millions, but also slowing the country's economic growth. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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At climate talks, painstaking diplomacy and then angerBaku (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 After three sleepless nights of back and forth among negotiators, all it took to seal a contentious global deal on climate finance was the hammering of a gavel. And just as quickly, the denunciations began. ... more  
Cheers, angst as US nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopenMiddletown, United States (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon for Pennsylvania and a boost for AI, but it is loathed by residents still haunted by a near-catastrophic meltdown there in 1979. ... more 
Developing nations slam 'paltry' $300 bn climate dealBaku (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low. ... more  
PLP launches drone kit for installing bird diverters on power linesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 PLP, a leader in innovative infrastructure solutions for electric power systems, has introduced the RAPTOR CLAMP Drone Kit, marking a major step forward in the use of drones for overhead power line ... more |
 
Rocket Lab secures $23.9M CHIPS Award to boost semiconductor productionSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leader in launch services and space systems, has finalized a $23.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand semiconductor manufacturing cap ... more 
ODS FeCrAl alloys show durability in liquid metal flow at fusion reactor temperaturesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) have successfully demonstrated the durability of oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) FeCrAl alloys under conditions mimicking those in f ... more 
Photon qubits advance quantum computing without error correction techniquesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 The intersection of AI and quantum computing is reshaping scientific exploration, with quantum technology emerging as a pivotal tool in drug discovery and material science. A team led by Dr. Hyang-T ... more  
Attosecond X-ray pulses at high repetition rates revolutionize atomic imagingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 A collaborative team of scientists from European XFEL and DESY has achieved a significant milestone in X-ray science by producing high-power attosecond hard X-ray pulses at unprecedented megahertz r ... more |
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The future of energy-efficient edge AI sensorsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing emergency prediction capabilities, including heart attack detection, natural disaster alerts, and pipeline monitoring. To support such advancements, s ... more 
Spin-powered crystals enable efficient hydrogen productionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 The production of clean hydrogen through water splitting has long been limited by the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction, making it inefficient and expensive. However, researchers have d ... more  
Can robots learn from machine dreams?Boston MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 For roboticists, one challenge towers above all others: generalization - the ability to create machines that can adapt to any environment or condition. Since the 1970s, the field has evolved from wr ... more 
Greece pushes green transition on its fragile islandsNaxos (AFP) Nov 22, 2024 Greece this week signed a clean energy deal with the EU in a bid to fast-track the green transition on its fragile islands threatened by overtourism and climate change. ... more |
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Scientists seek miracle pill to stop methane cow burpsDavis, United States (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane, a potent greenhouse gas. ... more |
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Biden praises COP29 deal, vows US action despite TrumpWashington (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 US President Joe Biden praised the COP29 deal Saturday as a "significant step" to fighting global warming, and pledged continued action by America despite his incoming successor Donald Trump's climate skepticism. ... more 
Mini smart city drives design of safer automated transportationIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 The city resembles any number of urban centers - that's the point. It has blocks of residential houses and commercial businesses, landscaped parks, roads, roundabouts, and traffic lights. There is a ... more 
Cutting-edge robotic system advances bridge crack detection technologyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 A new robotic inspection system leveraging deep learning and advanced ultrasonic technology is revolutionizing the way fatigue cracks are detected in Orthotropic steel bridge decks (OSDs). Designed ... more 
MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agentsBoston MA (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control t ... more |
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