Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

Jeffery DelViscio/ Scientific American Feltman: Wow, yes, that does sound very complicated [laughs] but also very cool. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. Did the team end up actually getting what they were after?

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

Billion Shortfall, Top Republican Says -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Transportation In Pennsylvania Is A Bipartisan Issue - By Former Governors Mark Schweiker and Ed Rendell -- Beaver Times/Spotlight PA: After Minnesota Shootings, Some PA Lawmakers Seek Privacy, Personal Protection Increase -- Dept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

Shapiro Honors Exceptional Commonwealth Employees For Remarkable Public Service, Including From DCNR, DEP [PaEN] -- ​​ DEP Launches Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation Permit SPEED Permitting Initiative June 30 [PaEN] -- PJM Extends Hot Weather Alert To June 26; Extends Maximum Generation Alert To June 25; Calls For Pre-Emergency Load Management (..)

Recycling

Circle of Blue

MAY 12, 2025

Toronto, located on Lake Ontario, uses it to cool more than 100 buildings in its downtown core. Research universities, political leadership, drivable roads that connect ports to markets, and a reliable energy grid all contribute. The first is broader: water as an economic input. Manufacturers need it. On top of the perils to the U.S.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

Would you like to know how much storm surge or wind speed you need to prepare for in the face of an incoming hurricane, or when you need to evacuate to higher ground? Year after year, billion-dollar disasters, many of them worsened by climate, destroy and displace communities across the country.

2010

Circle of Blue

MAY 13, 2025

It was cooled by an ice and salt mixture. We have political systems that are notoriously fractured right now. Federal fish stocking only slowed the decline. Then new technology opened up the markets for Great Lakes fish far and wide. In 1868, a Detroit man developed a refrigerator rail car. You get almost no agreement on anything.

Natural Resources

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

heating targets; Its biggest problems are political, social, and legal (not scientific or technological): how to navigate and control it; and how not to let it trigger international conflict or destabilization. Its on individuals, so not well-targeted to predict political outcomes with interest-group mobilization.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2025

On the other end of the spectrum, most healthy adults can tolerate higher temperatures, provided they have access to rest, water, shade, and cool spaces. But any healthy person, if exposed to temperature and humidity combinations that prevent their body from being able to cool itself, will succumb to heat illness.

Cooling

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

“Freebates” are one of the proposals under consideration by CARB as they confront the loss of federal EV rebates and Clean Air waivers, Michael Stoll for SF Public Press reports , calling freebates “economically elegant but politically unproven.”

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It used to be Global Warming and that wasn’t working because we’re actually cooling.” We are suffering from climate change. If it’s cold, it’s good. If it’s hot as hell, it’s good. And it’s not just talk.

Clean Energy

Yale E360

JULY 15, 2025

The pollutant can cause wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath, but it also reacts with other airborne compounds to form sulfates, tiny particles that block sunlight, with a cooling effect. Chinese sulfur dioxide emissions in tons.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Says Presidents Tariff Plan Makes No Sense; Only Means Higher Prices For Pennsylvanians; Why Did He Do It? -- Post-Gazette: Shapiro, Fetterman Responses To President Spotlight Political Differences, Challenges For Democrats -- Gov. Ohio- $2.80

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

MIC drops (not cool like literal mic drops) leave 78 million people at risk Meteorologists-in-Charge (MIC) bring senior operational leadership and expertise to the business of weather forecasting at NWS.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S. government from opening a long-term storage facility at Yucca Mountain for decades.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Another unacknowledged issue is that data centers can require millions of gallons of water a day for cooling. The facility will be cooled by air, not water, and it will contain lithium-ion battery backups, but it will also have 72 diesel generators for emergencies. Our lawmakers ignore that observation at our peril.

Natural Gas

JANZEN AG

AUGUST 5, 2025

The GAO also states that the cooling and heat transfer technologies require further development. Although the response in communities often begins as positive, welcoming the new jobs and tax base increases, attitudes often swing to negative, creating divisive local politics.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Conservation is a human issue, not a political one. These wonders must be preserved, yet today, they face unprecedented threats due to regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration. Our environment affects our health, economy and quality of life. Many of my Republican and Democrat friends can agree on this.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Resilient energy that isn’t laid low by fuel-line disruptions or a lack of cooling water. The facts are on our side, even when the politics and the federal level aren’t, and the fundamentals of clean energy are stronger than ever. Massive natural resources in the wind, the sun, the earth, and water. Clean energy is here to stay.

Clean Energy

Scientific American

JULY 9, 2025

Feltman: Very cool. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. So it’s an incredible collaborative effort. This year we had [more than] 180 different bioacousticians listening in in [more than] 400 different parts of the world.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Fast forward to today I know Our political crises are a lot to hold. Layered on top of this will be the volatility, harm and added vulnerability people will be facing from the administration’s countless other egregious actions, from cuts to housing and cooling assistance to ever-expanding rights violations.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The gas is then cooled with the help of cold water to form liquid ammonia, which forms the basis for manufacturing various other nitrogen fertilizer formulations. Natural gas is used as a source of hydrogen and as an energy source for this reaction.

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

MAY 22, 2025

Because low-lying clouds reflect sunlight, authors said, penguins may actually be helping to keep parts of Antarctica cool, slowing the loss of sea ice. The findings , published in Communications Earth & Environment , suggest that penguin droppings are seeding clouds. Scientists have long debated seeding clouds as a way to stem warming.

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Bucks County Township Multi-Year Dispute Over Commercial Mulch Making Operation -- PennVEST Makes $216.3 Shapiro Unveils New Color-Correcting Viewfinders In State Parks So Colorblind Individuals Can Enjoy Fall Foliage -- WESA/WPSU: Gov.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2025

And why is that industry and its political enablers not yet paying the price for what they’ve done to all of us? Some years, we’ll experience the cooling effects of a La Nina and the annual increase in temperature could be smaller; other years, we’ll experience the added heat of an El Nino and the rise may be steeper.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

The cuts to renewable energy research are akin to removing the car’s advanced cooling system, preventing the engine from handling increased temperatures and stresses. Trump also introduced an executive order that weakens protections against political interference in federal science. But engines need maintenance and fuel.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JUNE 25, 2025

Then the sample is heated and cooled in a particular way that selectively duplicates whatever is bound to the tag. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. Scientists essentially add a tag that recognizes and binds to genetic material from the virus.

2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2025

Compound climate hazards are colliding with dangerous policies and politics. As my colleague Kathy Mulvey highlighted in her op-ed this week in The Hill Big Oil is leveraging its deep political influence to enlist elected officials in its effort to evade the rising tide of lawsuits seeking accountability for climate deception and damages.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JULY 2, 2025

Feltman: Very cool. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. Feltman: So speaking of those animation displays, when compared to fireworks, what problems do they solve and what problems do they raise that maybe your paper was trying to address?

Cooling

Yale E360

APRIL 11, 2025

On Friday, NOAA forecasters declared an end to La Niña, which has had a cooling influence globally. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds Food & Agriculture In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World Climate Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

This week in Danger Season we’re thinking about the current whiplash the nation is experiencing from both our climate and our politics, we’re looking at the gathering eastern US heat wave, and we’re thinking about who all of this hurts most. Erika Spanger and Marc Alessi contributed to this post.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2025

"Currently, Lancaster officials are in negotiations over a potential Community Benefit Agreement as part of the approval process for the CoreWeave data center project." -- Resource Needs, Potential Burdens: "It is well known that large data centers require large amounts of electricity and cooling capacity to operate.

Cooling

Scientific American

AUGUST 11, 2025

They sound pretty cool, and they are: the term refers to exoplanets that roam free instead of orbiting a star. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.

Ocean

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

If you want to see all that cool stuff for yourself, head over to our YouTube channel for an extended video version of this episode. Feltman: Cool, and what would that allow us to do? Feltman: Very cool. Feltman: That’s really cool. So what’s next for LIGO? Evans: So LIGO is working on the next upgrade.

Cooling

Scientific American

JULY 7, 2025

Feltman: Very cool. Feltman: Very cool. Dominick: So much—so many cool toys. Feltman: Wow, very cool. Dominick: Well, NASA does this really cool thing to help us get better at photography and taking quick pictures, and that is: they let us borrow the cameras. So we’re trying that out today.

Cooling

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? What are the political implications of the fact that climate change will continue after emissions cease, or even potentially grow worse? Does this mean that we don’t need to worry about political backlash? Those kinds of impacts could provoke real political backlash.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Pinatubo, widely used as an analogy for SAI, put about 15M tons of sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere and cooled the Earth a little less than 1°C over the following year.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

These areas experience higher temperatures relative to surrounding areas because they have a denser concentration of heat-trapping surfaces and limited green spaces that offer cooling benefits. Some themes that emerged were the lack of shading trees, vulnerable populations, the need to be creative when cooling, and issues related to water.

Cooling