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During COVID, scientists turn to computers to understand C4 photosynthesis
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): When COVID closed down labs in March, a team from the University of Essex turned to computational approaches to understand what makes some plants better adapted to transform light and carbon dioxide into yield through photosynthesis.
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Unprecedented global movement 'Count Us In' to mobilize 1 billion people t
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 9 (ANI/PRNewswire): For the first time, a diverse coalition of individuals and groups spanning culture, sport, entertainment, business and civil society in India have today announced their participation in Count Us In, an unprecedented global campaign
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Carbon creation finding set to rock astrophysics
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Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): A new measurement of how quickly stars create carbon may trigger a major shift in our understanding of how stars evolve and die, how the elements are created, and even the origin and abundance of the building blocks of life.
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Aviation leaders commit to green recovery amid COVID-19 crisis
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Geneva [Switzerland], October 5 (ANI): Aviation industry leaders have reiterated that long-term climate action should be a priority alongside economic recovery in the coming years.
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Study reveals face masks unlikely to cause over-exposure to CO2, even in p
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Washington [US], October 4 (ANI): During the COVID-19 pandemic, the wearing of face masks has become a highly political issue with some individuals falsely claiming that wearing face masks may be putting people's health at risk. New research findings contradict statements linking wearing fac
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Face masks unlikely to cause over-exposure to CO2, even in patients with l
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Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): New research findings contradict statements linking wearing face masks to carbon dioxide poisoning by trapping CO2.
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Proposed French environment tax will destroy jobs, fail to decarbonise avi
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Geneva [Switzerland], September 18 (ANI): The proposed new environmental taxes in France will fail to decarbonise the aviation sector and eliminate 150,000 French aviation jobs, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Friday.
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Financial sector confronts deforestation as a key ESG risk: Fitch
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London [UK], September 18 (ANI): The environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors could increasingly influence global banks' financing activities relating to commodity producers in forest-risk regions as deforestation is under growing scrutiny from activists and policymakers, Fitch Rat
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Energy Transitions Commission: Global energy, industry and financial leade
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): A coalition of 40 leaders from global energy producers, energy-intensive industries, financial institutions and environmental advocates - including ArcelorMittal, Bank of America, BP, Development Research Center of the State Council of China,
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Titagarh to replace 25 pc of power demand with clean energy
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 10 (ANI): India's largest private sector manufacturer of passenger and freight trains Titagarh Wagons Ltd on Thursday announced the signing of a power purchase agreement with Fourth Partner Energy to procure 4.8 megawatts of solar power for its wagon
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Threat of climate change is real and dangerous: Piyush Goyal
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New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the threat of climate change is real and dangerous and the country has to move towards a world of net-zero carbon emissions.
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ABB India's factory to be awarded green factory building certification by
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], September 4 (ANI): ABB India has won a gold certification by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) for its environmentally-friendly smart factory, becoming the first to be certified as a green building within the Nashik industrial area which houses about 10,0
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