‘Space law’ helps prevent earth’s microbes from polluting other planets

Feb05
by on February 5, 2021 at 6:00 pm
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There are two planned Mars landings in 2021. First, NASA’s Perseverance rover is due to land on the planet later this month. Then China’s Tianwen rover will follow in May. Both missions intend to search the planet for signs of life. But how do we make sure when our landers touch down on the red planet’s surface, nothing unwanted is landing with them? If we aren’t careful, we could be spreading all sorts of life – like in 2019, when a spacecraft crashed onto the moon’s surface with a cargo of tiny, almost indestructible lifeforms called tardigrades. The good thing…

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How GM’s plans to go fully electric stack up against Ford, Tesla, and others

Feb04
by on February 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm
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This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. General Motors announced a suite of environmental commitments Thursday, including a pledge to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its light-duty vehicles by 2035, be carbon-neutral in all global products and operations by 2050, and sign the Business Ambition Pledge to 1.5 °C. The change of administrations in Washington, D.C., appears to have accelerated the EV moves that…

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