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Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Set to begin as soon as the spring of 2024, congestion pricing will reduce traffic in crowded areas, improve air quality, and provide critical funding for public transit.
A first for the US, this will bringing New York City into line with places like London, Singapore, and Stockholm.
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Canada surpassed the record for area burned by wildfires in a single year Monday as hundreds of fires continued to blaze in almost every province and territory.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported Monday afternoon that 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land has burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.
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Auto sales in Europe continued their upward trajectory in May, rising for the 10th month in a row.
New-car registrations increased 18% to 1.12 million vehicles, with battery-electric vehicle deliveries soaring 66%.
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Levels of benzene can reach higher than those found in secondhand tobacco smoke and the benzene pollution can spread throughout a home, according to the research.
The findings add to a growing body of scientific evidence showing that emissions within the home are more harmful than gas stove owners have been led to believe.
Valley of the Ten Peaks and Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada (Public Domain, Source » Wikimedia)
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Quality of new vehicles sold in the United States is declining as factors such as growing use of technology and lower build quality of certain parts are making the models more “problematic”, according to automotive consultant J.D. Power.
Build quality of certain parts such as audio systems and cup-holders have resulted in quality issues, the report said, which collected data from 93,380 purchasers and lessees of 2023 model-year vehicles.
The enormous loan — by far the biggest government backing for a US automaker since the bailouts in the 2009 financial crisis — marks a watershed moment for President Joe Biden’s aggressive industrial policy meant to help American manufacturers catch up to China in green technologies.
The new factories that will eventually supply Ford’s expansion into electric vehicles are already under construction in Kentucky and Tennessee through a joint venture called BlueOval SK, owned by the Michigan automaker and South Korean battery giant SK On Co. Ford plans to make as many as 2 million EVs by 2026, a huge increase from the roughly 132,000 it produced last year.
Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto ranked in the top 10 according to a long-running Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest survey, the Global Liveability Index 2023 ranking of 173 metropolises.
For 2023, the world’s 10 most livable cities according to the EIU are:
- Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
For the second year, the Austrian capital took the title of world’s most liveable city in the world. - Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
- Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
- Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
- Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
- Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
- Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦
- Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭
- Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
- Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵 and Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿 (tie)
Least liveable of the cities ranked include Douala, Cameroon; Kyiv, Ukraine; Harare, Zimbabwe; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Karachi, Pakistan; Lagos, Nigeria; Algiers, Algeria; Tripoli, Libya; Damascus, Syria.
Read the report » Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2023
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A US federal judge ruled that Calgary-based Enbridge, a natural gas utility, must pay a Wisconsin-based Indigenous group some $5.1 million and move part of an oil pipeline by 2026 that impinges on the group’s land.
The cell plants VW is setting up in Germany, Spain and Canada will underpin its shift away from the combustion engine. The automaker has earmarked €20 billion ($22 billion) worth of investment through 2030 to try and turn its one-year-old battery unit PowerCo into a behemoth with 20,000 workers and enough capacity for 3 million EVs a year. VW on Wednesday mapped out a renewed profit push, with Chief Financial Officer Arno Antlitz telling reporters the company remains open to eventually selling shares in PowerCo.
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- Lahore, Pakistan
- Hotan, China
- Bhiwadi, India
- Delhi, India
- Peshawar, Pakistan
- Darbhanga, India
- Asopur, India
- N’Djamena, Chad
- New Delhi, India
- Patna, India
- Ghaziabad, India
- Dharuhera, India
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Chapra, India
- Muzaffarnagar, India
- Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Greater Noida, India
- Bahadurgarh, India
- Faridabad, India
- Muzaffarpur, India