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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Physics World

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. But Formaggio says as coherence times increase, radiation effects will become more significant. “We 10.1109/TNS.2010.2083687 2010.2083687 ).

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1 Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE), prepared the document.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

And so what this study did was looking at 2002 to 2015 Medicare claims, the authors took advantage of a stark difference in fracking activity between Pennsylvania, where the practice started becoming widespread in 2008, and in New York, where fracking was and still is banned. So that's what this study does. So what were the findings?

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Solar Geoengineering in the News — Again and Again

Legal Planet

This new phase continues a small (about $10M/year) research program authorized by Congress since 2002, and follows a prior phase of modeling and balloon observations. human subjects research, treatment of research animals) or there are obvious, direct pathways to subsequent harm (certain types of weapons and dual-use technologies).

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The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle

Union of Concerned Scientists

Indeed, there have been a number of close calls over the last six decades due to human and technological errors. Acute radiation exposure alone would cause several million fatalities across the US—if people get advance warning and can shelter in place for at least four days.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Marshall To Retire After 40 Years Of Service And Advocacy -- Wild Excellence Films Wins Waterwalker Film Festival Award For Paddleboarding Film 'A Quiet Excitement' Showcasing SW PA Lakes and Creeks -- Temple Student Kyle Chin Promotes Inclusion In Recreation -- Duquesne Light Now Accepting Community Impact Grant Applications For Projects/Programs (..)

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

So you say that the 2020 fires burned half as much as the 2002 fires. I checked those figures and the figures that I can see the public figures in Australia are that in 2020, 18 million hectares burned, and in 2002 21 million. The idea is that any amount of radiation is harmful and contributes to, you know, shorten life or disease.