Porsche Will Crush Its Old EVs to Give Birth to Faster, Greener Monsters Than Ever Before

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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‘Hands Off!’ Protests Across the U.S. Show Growing Opposition to Trump and Musk’s ‘Hostile Takeover’

by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025

Millions of people in all 50 states and across the world participated in 1,400 Hands Off! protests on Saturday against the actions and policies of President Donald Trump and senior advisor Elon Musk. At state capitals, federal buildings, congressional offices, city halls, parks and Social Security’s headquarters, people gathered by the thousands to demand a […]
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Could a 3D-Printed Skin Imitation Replace Animal Testing for Cosmetics?

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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Snow in Rocky Mountains Found to Be Contaminated With Metals

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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Djibouti Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MED)

by Komoneed | Apr 9, 2025