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A traffic congestion charge for central New York is expected to be in place by the end of 2022. Motorists will have to pay $23 a day to drive inside the city. This measure will make New York the first city in the United States to implement such a toll. Drivers of vehicles will have to pay a fee of up to $23 to drive in downtown New York, between 60th Street and lower Manhattan. This measure will make the megalopolis the first city in the United States to implement congestion pricing. The congestion charge functions as a toll to enter city centers. Also known as an "urban toll," it is essential...
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London's Heathrow airport said Monday it was extending its capacity limit through most of October to reduce the chaos caused by a post-pandemic surge in passengers amid a lack of staff. Europe's largest airport introduced a cap of 100,000 departing passengers per day in July, which was originally slated to have expired at the end of September. "Since the cap was introduced, passenger journeys have improved with fewer last-minute cancellations, better punctuality and shorter wait times for bags," said Heathrow. It said the extension through October 29 "will provide passengers with confidence ah...
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Artist and musician Zach Katz virtually transforms the streets of the world's major cities in order to show how the space could be made more hospitable to pedestrians. Every day, he posts new creations on his Twitter account and, in the space of a few weeks, has become something of a star among internet users, city planners and politicians. How do we imagine the downtown zones of the future? The Twitter account @Betterstreetsai explores this question by using DALL-E, the artificial intelligence (AI) that has started a real trend on the web. Here, fountains, green space, rails or even roads res...
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Marking a new departure in the era of environmentally conscious air travel, Lufthansa is making carbon offsetting easily available to travelers at the time of choosing and booking their tickets. Indeed, the German carrier has decided to make it a full-fledged fare category. Passengers can offset the carbon footprint of a flight by donating to reforestation projects. They can invest in the deployment of biofuels, calculate precisely the amount of carbon dioxide generated by a particular journey, and convert the amount into donations for environmental programs. For several years now, airlines ha...
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Boats that are no longer used for navigating through waterways are getting a new lease on life with a multitude of uses ranging from coworking spaces to restaurants and hotels. Companies are recycling these polyester hull structures into new spaces that you might be surprised to find yourself in. In northern Europe, England, the Netherlands and Denmark, boats come with particular cultures. In such places it's not unusual to come across ships on various riverbanks that have become places of accommodation. Since the revolution in remote working during the pandemic, barges and boats have also rec...
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How to upset Russian freight companies, Elon Musk, Chinese authorities and Kylie Jenner in one go? Track their jets. Flight following websites and Twitter accounts offer real-time views of air traffic -- and sometimes major news like Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip -- but that exposure draws pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures. Whether Russian air freight firms, Saudi Arabian plane owners or others, Dan Streufert said his group gets dozens of "requests" each year to stop posting aircrafts' whereabouts. "We have not removed anything so far. This is all public information. And I don't ...
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For years, selling eggs was a joyless business for Danai Bvochora, as most of the money she made went to cover minibus fares to the market in a rural area of Zimbabwe. That was until an earth-brown solar-powered electric tricycle changed her life. "We used to carry loads on our heads before. The tricycle has lessened the burden," said the 47-year-old from Domboshava, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She carefully loads eggs onto the tricycle's trailer before embarking on a bumpy eight-kilometre journey to the market. "We even use it to go to church and worshi...
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From a 14-minute flight by Drake's private plane to Taylor Swift's carbon footprint, celebrities are struggling to shake off a firestorm over their jet emissions amid the climate crisis. Fury erupted in July when reality star Kylie Jenner shared a picture to her 364 million Instagram users of her and her partner, rapper Travis Scott, in front of two jets with the caption: "you wanna take mine or yours?" Critics on social media swiftly attacked Jenner, calling her a "climate criminal". Then last week, British sustainability marketing firm Yard named and shamed the "worst private jet CO2 emissio...
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Capture one of the most powerful greenhouse gases and convert it into biodiesel, while reducing the energy costs of the proces: this is a project that a team of Brazilian researchers is currently working on. While carbon dioxide is likely the first gas that comes to mind when we talk about global warming, methane is also highly problematic. Emissions from this powerful greenhouse gas are 25 times more potent than those of CO2 when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere. As the world works on transitioning to renewable energies, finding a way to use and neutralize the methane released int...
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Uber on Friday said it will let drivers in the United States see trip details before deciding whether to accept them -- a new feature long sought by drivers. A common lament by drivers at the app-summoned ride platform has been that they have to accept a request before learning where trips will take them, or how profitable they will be. "Our new trip request screen makes it easier for drivers to decide if a trip is worth their time and effort by providing all the details -- including exactly how much they'll earn and where they're going -- upfront," chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said in a ...
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