MANILA, Philippines, June 21 (TNSper) -- The Asian Development Bank issued the following news release on June 20, 2022: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today announced the appointment of Warren Evans as Special Senior Advisor (Climate Change), Office of the President. Mr. Evans will function as a climate envoy and provide broad oversight and guidance for ADB's climate operations, including optimizing climate finance scale and impact, mobilizing new and additional technical and financial resou  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The White House issued the following news release: On June 17, 2022, President Biden convened his third Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) to build on the progress achieved at COP 26 by further strengthening climate action while also addressing urgent energy and food security concerns arising from Russia's further invasion of Ukraine. Participants shared steps they are taking to strengthen their national climate efforts, and many joined the United States in  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47160) on June 15, 2022, entitled "Middle East and North Africa: Implications of 2022 Russia-Ukraine War". The report was written by Middle Eastern affairs specialists Christopher M. Blanchard, Jeremy M. Sharp, Clayton Thomas and Jim Zanotti, Middle Eastern affairs analyst Carla E. Humud, Russian and European affairs specialist Cory Welt, Russian and European affairs analyst Andrew S. Bowen, and  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 21 (TNSres) -- Marquette University issued the following news release: Dr. Adam Dempsey, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Marquette University's Opus College of Engineering, has been awarded a research grant worth nearly $4.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to enable innovative technology for lean-burn natural gas engines with the potential to reduce methane slip by 90% from current levels. "Prechamber Enabled Mixing Controlled Combustion o  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 21 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Two Montana State University graduate students were recently awarded prestigious graduate research fellowships by the Philanthropic Educational Organization, known as PEO. Jacey Anderson, a doctoral student from Missoula in MSU's Department of History and Philosophy in the College of Letters and Science, and Shawna Pratt, a doctoral student from Miles City in the MSU's Department of Chemical and B  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSRep) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following conference paper entitled "Demonstration of a Novel Quantitative Microscopy Technique for Automated Characterization of in Situ Particulate Matter in Coal Miners With Progressive Massive Fibrosis": Here are excerpts: * * * ABSTRACT Rationale: Increasing exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) linked to changes in mining production processes has been implicated in the resu  more