While improvements in technology clearly have many benefits, we must remain mindful that technology can influence the brain. Our question is: Can we find a way to still use GPS but reduce the harmful effects on memory? The challenge is to create other forms of GPS navigation that will remai...
discussed include the insurgents in the country are called Naxalites, industry's hunger for raw materials and energy needs are associated to killings in the jungle to coal, steel, and power production, and joining the Naxalites...
US federal agents at the Texas border arrested as many as 6,555 people when they tried to enter the US illegally. This is an increase in 86 per cent from the previous year. Nicaragua and the Honduras, two of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, were hit the h...
Coal mining jobs make up only around 0.02% of the 160 million-strong civilian labor force in the U.S. Besides travel agents, other professions that far out-employ coal include aircraft mechanics and service technicians, roofers, telemarketers, and fitness trainers 257,410. Many individual compa...
An EY study of eight economies across Asia — Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam — between August and September 2020 found as many as 800 clean energy projects in the pipeline. Assuming all of them are realized, we are looking a...
Coldplay bought 10,000 mango trees in India to offset an album, only to see many of them die several years later. For their next album, Coldplay decided to protect already established wooded areas in Mexico and Ecuador. Despite questions of legitimacy, forestry offsets are popular because they...
patterns, and we found out that the advanced Asian economies, such as Korea and Japan, are positioned on one end of the spectrum, closer to the United States and Europe. In contrast, China is positioned on the opposite end. Meanwhile, many ASEAN economies and India occ...
In the past few years, many advanced technologies and equipment have been introduced in China in order to reduce fossil energy consumption. However, energy-consumption problems in the chemical industry still persist due to the lower starting point. Based on the 12th Five-year plan of the chemical...
In the 1940s, goods such as nylon, rubber and many metals were rationed and recycled to help support the war effort. However, the economic boom of the postwar years caused conservationism to fade from the American consciousness [source: Hall]. It wasn't until the environmental movement of ...
One particular characteristic of commodities is that they are produced and traded in large quantities, guaranteeing a global supply and enough liquidity for the market. There are four main types of commodities: Energy: these commodities include crude oil, electricity, natural gas, coal, uranium, gas...