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Tesla Reportedly Hits Model 3 Manufacturing Goal Hours after Its Deadline
Tesla just barely missed its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 electric cars a week, according to Reuters, which says that the company reached the mark “several hours after the midnight goal,” while Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter…
A Massive Five-Ton Plastic Waste Whale Rises Up from the Bruges Canals (VIDEO)
Near the statue of Jan Van Eyck, Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale) rises up from the Bruges canals. The gigantic sculpture is more than just a representation of a whale; the animal is made of waste, collected from the plastic soup…
Ford Hits Manufacturing Emissions Target Eight Years Early
Ford Motor Company said it has achieved its manufacturing emissions reduction target eight years ahead of schedule. The car manufacturer has set a goal to cut emissions by 30% per vehicle produced by 2025 but has already reduced it by…
‘Extinct’ San Quintín Kangaroo Rat Still Exists
At dusk, San Diego Natural History Museum mammalogist Scott Tremor set up a few live traps in some abandoned agricultural fields in Baja California, Mexico. With Sula Vanderplank, a botanist and research associate at the museum, and several graduate students…
‘Atlantification’ of Arctic Ocean Speeds Up
The Arctic Ocean is warming so rapidly that it may soon transform into an upper arm of the Atlantic Ocean, researchers say. A study published this week in Nature Climate Change shows how the Barents Sea in Scandinavia, where Atlantic…
IKEA Will Take Back Your Old Furniture, Resell It and Give You the Money
In some ways there is nothing new about buying second-hand furniture – antique stores have done it for centuries. And yet the idea that a leading modern furniture shop – IKEA in Sydney, to be precise – will re-sell old…
US and Russia ‘to Dominate Global Pipeline Expenditure to 2022’
The US and Russia will dominate global capital expenditure on planned oil and gas pipelines up until 2022. That’s according to data and analytics company GlobalData, which says the nations are set to spend an estimated $88.4 billion (£66.9bn) and…