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Teslas Model 3 orders are through the roof. Heres what that means for the planet
2016-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wahingtonpost: Tesla Motors unveiled its latest electric car, the Model 3, on March 31, with a lower price tag and 2017 delivery date. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk heralded the Model 3 as a way to accelerate the world's "transition to sustainable transport." Its being hailed as simply extraordinary. Since introducing the Model 3 sedan -- a far cheaper electric vehicle, aimed for broader consumption, than the Model S -- Tesla saw a stunning 276,000 orders in just two days. Tesla aims to sell 500,000 electric...
Astronomers spot potential Earth-like planet forming around young star
2016-04-06 15:37:47| Extremetech
This might be what Earth looked like a few billion years ago.
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Photos: Climate change is making California look like another planet
2016-03-31 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: When Thomas Heinser showed his pictures of California's parched landscape in a gallery last month, people couldn't tell what they were looking at. Last year marked the driest summer California has seen in at last 500 years, causing water shortages and resulting in forest fires throughout the state. Shot from the side of a doorless helicopter, Heinser's aerial photographs look more like abstract art than fields and valleys--driving home the transformative effects of climate change in California....
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Saving Half Planet for Nature Isn't As Crazy As It Seems
2016-03-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It's hard to be an optimist these days. We are living through what biologists call the sixth mass extinction, a time of dramatic depletion of species, from frogs to rhinos and butterflies. By the end of the century, it is estimated that one in six species will be extinct. The causes-human population growth, habitat loss, climate change-are complex and interlocking, fueling each other in an ever faster destructive spiral. But E.O. Wilson, the esteemed biologist and National Geographic Hubbard Award...
Micro-Sensing with Plastics: Empowering People for a Sustainable Planet
2016-03-18 11:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Cope Plastics Works With Local Students To Build Solution for Safe Drinking Water Around the World! Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with the Lewis Clark Community College and the National Great Rivers Research Education Center in Alton, IL developed MoboSens: a Mobile...
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