Origami Portable Solar Panel | WordlessTech

[ad_1] Origami portable solar panel is a travel-friendly, compact design that can fit into your backpack. The ultra-portable Origami solar panel is built to withstand repeated folding, weather, and extended UV exposure. Withstand high winds and setup on uneven ground with an adjustable tripod and versatile mounting system. Relies on SunPower solar cells, which are […]

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16 grants from the EU’s Innovation Fund awarded to projects across Europe

[ad_1] Sixteen projects selected for a grant under the Innovation Fund’s second call for small-scale projects have signed their grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), the implementing body of the Fund. The projects aim to bring low-carbon technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, energy storage and renewable […]

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Call for evidence and public consultation launched on industrial carbon management under European Green Deal

[ad_1] The Commission has published a call for evidence and a public consultation on industrial carbon management – carbon capture, utilisation and storage deployment. Running for 12 weeks, this consultation is aimed at getting input from stakeholders and citizens which will feed into the Commission’s preparations for a new EU strategy for carbon capture, utilisation […]

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Editor’s Choice 60:6 Whale shark abundance forecast – The Applied Ecologist

[ad_1] Author Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki introduces Journal of Applied Ecology’s June Editor’s Choice research article which was identified by Editors for proposing strong applied ecological guidance. Sosa-Nishizaki et al’s studied whale shark abundance through modelling and photo identification, suggesting that local authorities apply the model each spring. Research conception The foundations of this study began around […]

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Adaptive staged-scale restoration practices for upland prairies – The Applied Ecologist

[ad_1] Claudia Muzychko shares her latest Practice Insights which documents current on-site activity on Violet Prairie, USA, and provides a management planning reference for prairie restoration. A version of this post is available in Italian. Sometimes in land management we can focus so intently on direct problems complicating our practices that we may not have […]

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Cities ‘critical battlegrounds’ for a sustainable future: Guterres

[ad_1] The Assembly runs through Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya. It is hosted by the government of Kenya in collaboration with UN-Habitat, the UN Human Settlements Programme. More than 80 Ministers and Vice Ministers are due to attend, together with 5,000 delegates from around the world, said the UN urban affairs agency. In his message, António […]

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Europe seeks flourishing forests through restoration

[ad_1] In a vast sandy pine forest bordering the Atlantic Ocean in south-west France, an innovation is taking root. A corner of the million hectares of towering maritime pines is part of an EU-funded project offering a new vision of reforestation. The Aquitaine site in the SUPERB project is growing a “green shield” hedgerow made […]

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Space Solar Power Transmit Power to Earth for the first time

[ad_1] A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly transmit power in space and to beam detectable power to Earth for the first time. Wireless power transfer was demonstrated by MAPLE, one of three key technologies being tested by the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the first space-borne prototype from Caltech’s Space […]

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World must ‘work as one’ to end plastic pollution: Guterres

[ad_1] “Every year, over 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide – one third of which is used just once”, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 2,000 truckloads a day “Every day, the equivalent of over 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic is dumped into our oceans, rivers, and lakes.” He noted that microplastics are finding […]

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Effective but hard to get where needed most – The Applied Ecologist

[ad_1] Beatriz Marin-Diaz talks about her and research colleagues’ latest article, where they monitored wave run-up on Dutch dikes over the course of 3 years. Through comparing different dike locations, some fronted by salt marshes and others fronted by bare tidal flats without vegetation, results could be linked to the long-term marsh development in the […]

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