New Delhi (AFP) Nov 5, 2020 India’s capital is reeling from the double impact of the coronavirus and severe air pollution, New Delhi’s chief minister warned Thursday, as the megacity reported a record jump in cases and its worst smog in a year. With fears growing about rising infections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also banned firecrackers from being used this month during Diwali, the biggest … Continue reading Delhi battling dual crises of pollution and coronavirus

London (AFP) Nov 8, 2020 From his “racist comments” to populist image, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is viewed with disdain by some in Joe Biden’s camp. But Britain hopes climate action could be a trump card to salvage its “special relationship” with the United States. “The United States is our closest and most important ally. And that’s been the case under president after president, prime … Continue reading UK hopes climate change can warm frosty Biden ties

New Delhi (AFP) Nov 8, 2020 A steady stream of patients is coming out of New Delhi’s brownish atmosphere for treatment at the Breathe Better clinic, where lung specialist Davinder Kundra is confronting what he calls the “double whammy” of deadly smog and the coronavirus. Kundra is among a growing number of doctors who are worried as the capital’s notorious air again hits peak pollution … Continue reading Delhi fears the worst amid smog cloud and coronavirus wave

Paris (AFP) Nov 6, 2020 Even if all fossil fuel emissions ended immediately, greenhouse gasses from the food we eat could drive global temperatures above internationally agreed warming limits, a new study has warned. The system to feed Earth’s 7.7 billion people accounts for nearly a third of global total greenhouse gas emissions, including from land clearing and deforestation, fertiliser use and livestock. Rhttp://dlvr.it/RlGt9Z Continue reading Food emissions could push Earth past global warming limits

Singapore (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has started directing resources towards the planning and design of its next satellite, Kacific2. Kacific2 will add capacity to its largest, high-demand markets of Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, as well as expand its reach wider into South East Asia and further into Central and Western Asia, and potentially Eastern Africa. Likehttp://dlvr.it/Rl9qkn Continue reading Kacific Plans Second Satellite: Kacific2

Cali, Colombia (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 The digital age brims with promise for the world’s half-billion smallholder farmers. Smartphones with the right apps can tell farmers when it’s likely going to rain, how to identify and eradicate pests, and negotiate the prices for a bountiful harvest delivered by a combination of hard work and big data. While digital technologies are steadily reaching more farmers, for … Continue reading What digital revolution? Hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online

The “2020 State of Email, Fall Edition” report from email marketing firm Litmus found that 77 percent of marketers said email is one of their two most effective marketing channels. Additionally, 78 percent of marketing executives indicated email marketing is vital to the overall success of their company, a seven percent increase since last year.http://dlvr.it/Rl9qTV Continue reading Email Still Sells for Digital Marketers

Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Most active volcanoes on Earth are dormant, meaning that they have not erupted for hundreds or even thousands of years, and are normally not considered hazardous by the local population. A team of volcanologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), working in collaboration with the University of Heidelberg in Germany, has devised a technique that can predict the devastating … Continue reading Crystals reveal the danger of sleeping volcanoes

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment withttp://dlvr.it/Rl67tk Continue reading Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 A new study confirms the success of a natural-gas leak-detection tool pioneered by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists that uses sensors and machine learning to locate leak points at oil and gas fields, promising new automatic, affordable sampling across vast natural gas infrastructure. “Our automated leak location system finds gas leaks fast, including small ones from failing infrashttp://dlvr.it/Rl67nl Continue reading Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast