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World Bank report sheds light on the nuanced connections between “water shocks” and human migration. Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. Francisca Rosas Valencia dabs away tears while praying for her son, Florentine, who left home to work in Los Angeles. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homelan
Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change. Read more on E360 ?.
We can do a lot to make our transportation work better for everyone and reduce pollution by increasing access to different mobility options and reducing the overall need for driving.
Every field has its texts that form part of its intellectual canon, and others that form a kind of anti-canon of rejected ideas. The same is true in environmental law. The issue goes beyond which side wins. From the pro-environmental side of things, some Supreme Court rulings form guideposts to rely on, whereas others represent dangerous pitfalls to avoid.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
For a few minutes on Sunday, solar energy supplied more than half of Australia's power generation, marking the first time that solar has outstripped coal in a country long dependent on fossil fuels to produce electricity, The Guardian reported. Read more on E360 ?.
The House of Representatives has now passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JLVRAA), named after the iconic civil rights leader, in hopes of restoring the strength of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965 and protecting voters of color from state intrusion upon their voting rights. This is a vital step to protect […].
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The House of Representatives has now passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JLVRAA), named after the iconic civil rights leader, in hopes of restoring the strength of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965 and protecting voters of color from state intrusion upon their voting rights. This is a vital step to protect […].
Suppose we bring climate change under control and deal with its fallout. What will have we achieved? We will have prevented great harm. That, of course, is the main goal. Untamed climate change means an dangerous, ugly future for all of us on “Spaceship Earth.” Preventing that future is surely enough of a reason to dedicate ourselves to the effort. I’m asking about something different, however: how will the world be better off than it would have been if climate change had never been a problem?
Circle of Blue · What’s Up WIth Water – 8.23.21. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rise to power does not bode well for a water sector that is already troubled. That’s according to an international group of scholars. Over 70 percent of Afghanistan’s people are without access to clean drinking water, and most of the country experiences water stress.
Despite the mounting risk of climate change, U.S. counties that are most prone to weather disasters are seeing an influx of new residents, while those that are least vulnerable to extreme weather are seeing an exodus, according to a new analysis by the real estate firm Redfin. Read more on E360 ?.
A storm system currently named Tropical Storm Ida is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall in Louisiana early next week after bringing life-threatening rain and flooding to Cuba and other Caribbean islands. For Louisiana communities still rebuilding from three hurricanes–Laura, Delta, and Zeta, which struck the coast last year–the latest forecast threatens […].
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
An analysis of footage of octopuses off Australia throwing silt and shells suggests that they deliberately target others, and that females do most of throwing, often at males
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Four million people in Lebanon could face a water shortage as a fuel crisis causes rolling blackouts. Hurricanes Henri and Grace batter the S. East Coast and Mexico , respectively. New research out of Australia finds that water levels on the southern part of the Murray Darling Basin are rapidly declining. Egypt is considering major seawater desalination projects to offset the negative effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Disinformation campaigns are not random rumors that catch on by happenstance. They are coordinated, funded, and organized--and spring from an infamous memo published 50 years ago today.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
For the first time, DNA has been extracted from a Stone Age person who lived on Sulawesi – the genetic data suggests Denisovans lived on the island and interbred with humans there
Effective theorists: Sonia Bacca (left), Bijaya Acharya (centre) and Joanna Sobczyk. (Courtesy: Sabrina Hopp/Angelika Stehle). The interaction between an electron and a calcium-40 nucleus has been calculated from first principles for the first time. Physicists in Germany and the US led by Joanna Sobczyk , Sonia Bacca and Bijaya Acharya at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz used “chiral effective field theory” to account for the complex interactions that occur when an electron scatters from cal
When the water is not too hot, not too cold, expect fishy weirdness. Exhibit A: Matt Miller catches giraffe cichilds, native to Africa, in the desert. In Utah. The post 50 Fish, 50 States: Freaks in the Hot Springs appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
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Noise from wind farms may be more bothersome at night than it is during the day – and not only for the reasons you might expect. While it’s true that competing sources of background noise (such as traffic) tend to die down at night, and people are more likely to notice sounds when they’re trying to fall asleep, scientists in Australia have found that physics as well as psychology plays a role in wind-farm-induced sleep disturbances.
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Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.
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If you’ve ever read Roald Dahl ’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , you must surely have dreamed of tearing back the silver foil from your favourite chocolate bar and winning a golden ticket. But on your tour of Willy Wonka’s factory, which of the physics-defying edible delights would you be most excited to witness? Would it be the everlasting gobstoppers that never get smaller no matter how long you suck them (surely a violation of energy conservation)?
Overlapping diseases and social conditions in the U.S. continue to dictate who is hurt most badly by the novel coronavirus. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New attribution research shows that climate change primed the pump and increased the odds of deadly July floods in northwestern Europe. By Bob Berwyn While global warming shifts some parts of the world into an age of persistent fires, others have been ravaged by intensifying rainfall and deadly floods, sure signs that Earth’s water cycle is becoming more volatile, with increasingly intense rain and floods punctuating longer dry periods.
For reasons I can no longer quite remember, I was once invited to CERN to interview the Nobel-prize-winning theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg. I think Weinberg, who died last month, had travelled to Geneva to lecture on the development of the Standard Model of particle physics, in which he had played a key part , and there was time in his schedule for journalists like me to quiz the great man.
3D X-ray imaging and computer simulations suggest ants have developed a behavioural algorithm that allows them to excavate tunnels by using soil physics – the technique could eventually be harnessed to develop robotic mining machines
A quantum bit based on a vibrating carbon nanotube and a pair of quantum dots could be unusually resistant to noise. Although the new nanomechanical qubit is currently at the proposal stage, calculations by Fabio Pistolesi of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University of Bordeaux and colleagues in the US and Spain indicate that its so-called “decoherence time” – a measure of how long fragile quantum information can survive in a noisy environment – would be remark
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