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fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

EVs are already making your air cleaner, research shows

The logic behind electric vehicles benefiting public health has long been solid: More EVs means fewer internal combustion engines on the road, and a reduction in harmful tailpipe emissions. But now researchers have confirmed, to the greatest extent yet, that this is indeed what's actually happening on the ground. What's more, they found that even relatively small upticks in EV adoption can have a measurably positive impact on a community.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

Scientists Uncover Secret Landscape Hiding Miles Below Antarctica's Ice

A new satellite-based map reveals extensive previously hidden bedrock mountains, hills, and ridges beneath Antarctica's ice, improving predictions of ice behavior under climate change.
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fromSnowBrains
2 months ago

Satellites Detect Seasonal Pulses in Earth's Glaciers-And It Looks Like a Giant Heartbeat - SnowBrains

Malaspina Glacier and many global glaciers undergo consistent seasonal spring speedups and winter slowdowns, producing a repeated, planet-scale glacier heartbeat.
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fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites | TechCrunch

Satellite-powered AI and subsurface sensing expanded the known extent of a massive Quebec lithium deposit and reduced drilling-targeting time to 48 hours.
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