by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025
By the year 2040, New York City and Long Island could lose over 80,000 homes to flooding, according to Averting Crisis, a new report released on Monday by the nonprofit Regional Plan Association (RPA). The report said that in every NYC borough, it was likely that tracts of land would become impossible to develop, contributing […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025
Funky-looking Kia PV5 will receive two larger siblings in 2027 and 2029
by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Porsche launches a revolutionary initiative to recycle electric vehicle batteries, aiming for sustainability and innovation. 🛠️ The process involves shredding used batteries into ‘black mass,’ which contains valuable materials like lithium and cobalt. 📊 Porsche aligns with European Union regulations, aiming to recover 80% of lithium by 2031 through comprehensive recycling […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025
A research team from the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria and India’s Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) have been working on the development of 3D-printed imitations of human skin that could potentially be used to replace animals in cosmetics testing. Directive 2010/63/EU, European legislation “on the protection of animals used for scientific […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025
A team of researchers from the Desert Research Institute, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the University of Nevada, Reno and Portland State University has discovered contamination in the snow across the Rocky Mountains. The researchers analyzed seasonal snowpack samples from 2018 that were collected across 49 sites around the Rocky Mountains to determine levels of metals […]
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