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How bad is deep-sea mining for marine ecosystems?

Corporate Knights

Industrial mining in the deep ocean is on the horizon. Top of mind for many scientists and politicians is what ramifications deep-sea mining might have on fragile marine ecosystems , including those far from the mining site. This is how sediment plumes will form in the seabed.”

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Workforce Transition in the Mining Industry

Cisco CSR

Today’s mining industry is on the edge of a big change in their workforce. Approximately 25% of mining employees are over the age of 55. So what are mining companies doing about this workforce transition and how can technology play a role in these transitions? Trend Overview. This signals a. Increased Digitization.

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Want to make EVs more accessible? Share them

Corporate Knights

Such a change could, for example, fuel environmental degradation and worker exploitation in the Global South, where most of the metals needed for batteries are mined. Huerta says Miocar is a play on “the Spanglish of the San Joaquin Valley” that tags the Spanish word for “mine” to the word “car.”)

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This tracking company wants to sell sustainability

Stacey Higginbotham

Once the item arrives, the tag can be thrown out or partially recycled. Rand McNally is also a customer, using the tracker almost as a canary in a coal mine to understand where disruptions in its logistics business might arise. Today Moeco’s clients are big companies tracking their own products such as Colgate and DuPont.

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

Medium and heavy-duty haulage, construction, agriculture, and mining are all under pressure to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and going electric is an increasingly attractive solution. Passenger cars are not the only sectors where electrification is taking off.

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Baker Hughes Presents- The Global Methane Pledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Emissions Management

3BL Media

He holds a master’s in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s in Mining Engineering from Anna University, India. Georges Tijbosch | Chief Executive Officer, MiQ.

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Reimagining Hybrid Work: Create, Manage, Collaborate with the Network for the Future

Cisco CSR

Density is monitored based on people’s devices connecting to Catalyst or Meraki Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth devices, RFID tags, and Meraki cameras. For example, the Right Now app in Cisco DNA Spaces provides metrics on how many people are currently in a location and sends alerts when a location is over capacity. Private 5G for Industry 4.0.

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