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Climate deal comes one step closer to effect at United Nations
2016-09-22 12:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An agreement to fight global warming came one step closer to taking effect on Wednesday when dozens of countries deposited their ratification of the deal at the United Nations, taking the total to 60, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. The deal, agreed by nearly 200 countries in Paris last December, needs ratification by at least 55 countries representing 55 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions to take effect. Ban said the 60 countries represented more than 47.5 percent. The United...
Paris climate accord closer after United Nations meeting
2016-09-22 04:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
La Rampa di Napoli: President Maithripala Sirisena handed over the instruments pertaining to entry into force of Paris Agreement on Climate Change to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today at the United Nations General Assembly. The so-called Paris Climate Change Agreement involves action that would limit warming to well below two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. Sandalow added that while the agreement will not officially enter into force this week during the United Nations summit in NY, the fact...
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Why self-driving cars are drawing ever closer except from Apple
2016-09-13 21:00:26| Extremetech
New Tesla software, a switch to radar over optical, and mergers, alliances, and buyouts galore, all indicating progress toward self-driving -- and then there's Apple.
New carbon nanotube breakthrough moves them one step closer to mass production
2016-09-08 22:08:20| Extremetech
A new method for purifying carbon nanotubes could make them a plausible vehicle for semiconductor advances -- but only if the technique can scale up to commercial manufacturing and compete against cutting-edge CMOS technology.
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Scientists create liquid light, get one step closer to spintronics
2016-08-18 15:40:04| Extremetech
Researchers from Cambridge have created a semiconductor so small that it blurs the line between electricity and light.
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