News tagged with city environment

Foxconn shows off changes at factory campus

The global controversy surrounding the treatment of assembly-line workers who manufacture iPhones and iPads - and just about every other consumer device - is triggering an unprecedented effort by Apple Inc. and its chief ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Re-inventing the planned city

In response to population growth, many "new towns" or planned cities were built around the world in the 1950s. But according to Dr. Tali Hatuka, head of Tel Aviv University's Laboratory for Contemporary Urban ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research reveals legacy of lead from old inner city roads a major source of airborne contamination

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research study published last week in the journal Atmospheric Environment has found that re-suspended roadside soil dust is a major source of atmospheric lead in old inner ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Stockholm's Green City award for what you can't see

A fisherman braces to reel in a large, wriggling salmon, its scales glistening in the sun as he lays his catch down, not on a sandy river bank but on the bustling cobblestone walkway outside parliament, at ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Vehicles that drive themselves

The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous vehicle navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more convenient if it allows people to kick back and enjoy ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5