TOKYO, Japan, July 25, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Is the machinery in your facility radiating too much heat? Is it dangerous for workers? Is it heating up the building, which then requires cooling? Excess heat from mechanical or electronic devices is a sign or cause of inefficient performance. Now, researchers in Tokyo are demonstrating embedded sensors to monitor the flow of heat that could help engineers alter device behavior or design to improve efficiency.
+Read MoreWASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Earth Day is held each year on April 22 to show support for environmental protection. It started small on April 22, 1970, and now includes hundreds of events coordinated globally by Earthday.org, working with 150,000+ partners in 193 countries to build environmental democracy. The official theme for Earth Day 2023 is Invest In Our Planet. One billion people are expected to participate.
+Read MoreABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 26, 2022 (Maximpact.com News) – Clean energy projects are springing up across a vast area of the world – from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, through Central Asia and as far east as Indonesia – founded on the work of Masdar, the renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi.
+Read MoreThe Japanese whaling fleet is killing minke whales in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica right now without opposition for the first time in 12 years.
+Read MoreHydrogen is already fueling cars and stationary power systems in North America, Europe and Japan. Now Japan is envisioning an entire society powered by hydrogen and has opened its wallet to make that happen.
+Read MoreFrom now on, for the first time, emissions of the neurotoxic element mercury will be controlled by 74 countries as a global treaty took effect on Wednesday, protecting millions of children and infants from neurological and health damage.
+Read MoreThe volume of discarded electronics in East Asia and Southeast Asia rose nearly two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast both in total volume and per person measures, new United Nations research shows.
+Read MoreA new international framework that empowers businesses, governments and NGOs to measure and manage food loss and waste is in its first year of operation. About a third of all food produced each year is lost or wasted worldwide as it moves from field to table…
+Read MoreSince the Paris Climate Agreement was reached in December, preventing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from entering the atmosphere has become a top priority for many governments, utilities and private individuals who believe climate change to be the major problem of this generation.
+Read MoreGoogle employees enjoy free rides to work at the California company’s headquarters campus, plus breakfast, lunch, and even dinner if they stay late – for free. New dads receive six weeks of paid leave, and moms can take 18 weeks. And Googlers can even bring their pets to work.
+Read More“We expect this historic agreement to promote economic growth, support higher-paying jobs; enhance innovation, productivity and competitiveness …and to promote transparency, good governance, and strong labor and environmental protections,” declared the ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries.
+Read MoreAll the countries that top the greenhouse gas emissions list are among those cooperating on a long-term energy project that some say is also a long shot – nuclear fusion.
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