Month: October 2020

China’s aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts. An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of carbon dioxide absorption by new forests has been underestimated. Taken together, these areas account for a little over 35% of China’s entire land carbon “sink”, the group says. The researchers’ analysis, based on ground and satellite observations, is reported in Nature journal. Norway funds map of world’s tropical forests ‘Unacceptable’ losses of older trees in 2019 A carbon sink is…

A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a graphene circuit that could produce clean limitless energy. The new system works by capturing graphene’s thermal motion and transforming it into an electrical current. RELATED: NOVEL ULTRAFAST BATTERY BASED ON GRAPHENE CHARGES IN 15 SECONDS “An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors,” said Paul Thibado, professor of physics and lead researcher in the discovery. Although, the research does not come without its fair…

A wedding and birthday party in suburban New York turned into two Covid-19 “superspreader” events that infected more than 50 people and left nearly 300 in quarantine, officials said. “This kind of blatant disregard for the well being of others is not only extremely disappointing, it will not be tolerated,” Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone said at a news conference on Wednesday. Bellone said the wedding held on Oct. 17 at North Fork Country Club in Cutchogue, Long Island, was in violation of the state’s rule on 50 people or…

Wah Nobel Group of Companies, a multinational concern, established in 1962 is a Joint Venture between Pakistan Ordnance Factories through Wah Industries Ltd,SAAB AB, Sweden and Almisehal Company, Saudi Arabia, has inked Memorandum of Understanding with an over 100 years old Company, Sheikh Zia-ul-Haq & Sons (Pvt)Ltd, for setting up of an Electric Vehicles and Electric Batteries Manufacturing / Assembly Plant at Karachi (Buses, Coasters and Coaches) first of its kind. Indeed it is a landmark event and would act as a catalyst of change in the realm of road…