The Ukrainian president says Donbas continues to divide negotiators, as meetings with France, Germany and the UK begin., Live updates, The Ukrainian president says Donbas continues to divide negotiators, as meetings with France, Germany and the UK begin. Video Duration 01 minutes 12 seconds 01:12 Zelensky to meet Starmer, MacronContinue Reading
10 min read Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what was responsible for an extraordinary cosmic outburst discovered on July 2. The event was a GRBContinue Reading
ExEP … Meetings/Events Exoplanets and Planet… ExEP Home Overview Team Missions Science Overview Decadal Surveys ExoExplorers Technology Technology Overview Needs and Gap Lists Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) Awards ExEP Technology Colloquium Series In-Space Servicing and Assembly (iSSA) Segmented Coronagraph Design and Analysis (SCDA) Starshade Technology Development Starshade Exoplanet Data ChallengeContinue Reading
Shell QGC, one of Australia’s largest gas and coal companies, has paid the Queensland Museum in Brisbane 10.25 million Australian dollars (US$6.94 million) since 2015 to fund educational programmes — aimed at school children as young as nine years old — that fail to clearly identify fossil fuels as theContinue Reading
A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook this work on behalf of the Competitiveness Roundtable — a coalition of companies including ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron, and Koch Inc. – accordingContinue Reading
Emerging from the ashes of Nokia and MeeGo in 2011, Jolla is a Finnish company founded by former Nokia engineers. They continued developing Linux-powered mobile operating systems and devices when MeeGo was abandoned. Their first product, the Jolla Phone, launched in November 2013 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. It ranContinue Reading
European governments are pushing back against Big Tech’s grip on public infrastructure. Denmark announced earlier this year that its Ministry of Digital Affairs was switching from Microsoft to LibreOffice. In more recent news, Switzerland’s data protection authorities declared international cloud services unsuitable for handling personal data. One German state hasContinue Reading
Heliox, a Siemens business, has launched a next-generation, all-in-one DC fast charging system with intelligent vehicle-to-grid (V2G) functionality. The Heliox 44 kW V2G charger provides bidirectional charging and discharging capability, allowing vehicles to return energy to the grid. Programmability features enable time-of-use charging and scheduled energy transfers, enabling fleet operatorsContinue Reading
How long does it take for a fleet to electrify? The answer depends on various factors, but it really shouldn’t take nine years—unless the fleet in question belongs to a quasi-governmental agency, and the transition is taking place against a background of unprecedented political turmoil. Postal delivery vehicles are aContinue Reading
Everywhere you look, there is news that one can scarcely believe is emanating from the United States of America, and I think you know the subject matter to which these news items all refer. In Arizona, a three-year-old child was forced to act as her own lawyer in immigration court,Continue Reading
A video diary for Al Jazeera, On the Ground A video diary for Al Jazeera Baraa Obied was internally displaced during the Syrian war and is now home again in Damascus. In his video diary, he shows how daily life in the capital is slowly returning to normal, one yearContinue Reading
Indonesia says 1,000 dead, some 1 million displaced from rains as report points at the threat posed by climate change., Indonesia reports 1,000 dead and close to 1 million displaced from rains as a report points at the threat posed by climate change and ecosystem decline across Asia. Nearly 1,000Continue Reading
This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews . ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Facing a growing number of lawsuits that could hold them liable for billions of dollars in climate damages, oil companies for the fifth time in three years are asking the U.S.Continue Reading