Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity. Although peat bogs and fens are under increasing environmental threat, efforts to protect and restore these ecosystems are gathering momentum. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rebecca Boehm, an economist with the UCS Food and Environment Program, looked at Arkansas and the biggest poultry producer in the state, Tyson Foods, as a case study and published her findings in August in conjunction with a Guardian investigative story. I recently spoke with Dr. Boehm about her report.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Brian Leiter at Chicago is once again doing his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in the United States in a range of substantive areas. As I did the last time Leiter posted these totals, I thought it might be helpful to our readers to have a list that is focused on US scholars who work substantially or primarily on environmental and energy law.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Ottawa, Illinois learned how to keep its residents out of harm’s way. But on the river’s edge, safety has often required sacrifice. Flooding has long been part of life in Ottawa, Illinois. Photo © Laura Gersony / Circle of Blue. Climate change and upstream development made the riverfront town of Ottawa, Illinois even more prone to flooding.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how successive U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings. Read more on E360 ?.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A UN analysis of countries' latest plans to cut carbon emissions shows they will actually rise 16 per cent on 2010 levels by 2030, leaving only a small window to limit global warming to 1.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Photo © Ak’ Tenamit / IUCN. Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue. Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress, an event that gathers world leaders once every four years to discuss the global challenge of sustainability, environmental leadership, and nature conservation.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Young people around the globe are profoundly worried about climate change, according to a new study , which found that those who feel governments are doing too little to address the crisis are most prone to climate anxiety. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) has just been passed by the Illinois legislature. Lead energy policy analyst Jessica Collingsworth breaks down why this is such a big win.

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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

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise. By Bob Berwyn James Hansen, a climate scientist who shook Washington when he told Congress 33 years ago that human emissions of greenhouse gases were cooking the planet, is now warning that he expects the rate of global warming to double in the next 20 years.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A fishing community along the Sesan River in northeastern Cambodia. The construction of a giant dam has flooded large parts of the surrounding area. © Wonders of the Mekong. The rivers are an ecological bounty in the Mekong watershed. But technical reviews pay little attention to environmental costs of dam building. By Stefan Lovgren – September 15, 2021.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Although our sun is considered a quiet star, it is now thought to have repeatedly pelted our planet with enormous eruptions in the not too distant past. Could another occur in the near future? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals.

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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.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Deprived of once plentiful seagrass, more than 900 have died this year. Some experts contend they were taken off the endangered species list prematurely. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—The manatee was too weak to swim.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

t. Transcript. 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 the United Kingdom, regulators have temporarily given water utilities permission to treat wastewater to a lower standard. The waiver is due to utilities not having enough treatment chemicals. The BBC reports that the shortfall is not because of an inadequate national supply.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Florida governor Ron DeSantis and politicians in Texas say research does not support mask mandates. Many studies show they are wrong. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This groundbreaking report is important for three main reasons: impact, scale, and attribution.

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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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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A compact ultrafast electron diffractometer that can sit on a lab bench has been built by physicists in Germany. The team, led by Dongfang Zhang and Franz Kärtner at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, created their instrument by compressing bunches of electrons to ultra-short durations, using millimetre-wavelength terahertz radiation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Sustainable urban planning may solve Mexico City’s water woes. Environmental activists in Benton Harbor, Michigan , are urging the EPA to replace thousands of lead service lines throughout the city. Lebanon’s water crisis is worsening as its economy crumbles. Lawyers with a conservation group filed a complaint with the UK’s environmental watchdog say the country is failing to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into rivers.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Four centuries after Descartes declared them to be mere machines that didn’t feel fear or pain, we’re still acting as though we don’t know better. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The top oil and gas industry trade association will do all it can to delay meaningful government action.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Look towards the Sun during a total solar eclipse (taking proper precautions of course) and you’ll see a beautiful, crown-shaped glow surrounding the Moon. It’s the solar corona – a hot plasma that extends millions of kilometres out into space. This region is a million times dimmer than the solar surface beneath, yet, strangely, it’s at least 1 million kelvin hotter.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas. Scattered about the globe like species-rich ocean rainforests, they help nurture about half the world’s marine life, a bounty that sustains millions of reef fishers and their communities in the Global South, in a f

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. . In contrast to peers like Hamilton and Halton Region, which “hit the brakes” to allow well-publicized and relatively successful public consultations on fleshed out zero-sprawl options.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

What incentives can you get next year for buying an EV?

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In recent years, health and fitness wearables have gained popularity as platforms to wirelessly track daily physical activities, by counting steps, for example, or recording heartbeats directly from the wrist. To achieve this, inertial sensors in contact with the skin capture the relevant motion and physiological signals originating from the body. As wearable technology evolves, researchers strive to understand not just how to track the body’s dynamic signals, but also how to simulate them to co

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PBS Nature

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Taking refuge from the coronavirus pandemic, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn set out to record all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England, filming them with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged on his kitchen table. See his surprising discoveries in My Garden of a Thousand Bees , premiering nationwide Wednesday, October 20 at 8 p.m.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 4500-year-old written tablets that shine a light on life in ancient Mesopotamia are often damaged, but a predictive AI trained on 104 languages can help fill in the gaps

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

New analysis underscores need for $50 million annual investment in sustainable nutrition science research.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are fascinating devices where layers of organic molecules or polymers carry out light absorption and subsequent transport of energy – the tasks that make a solar cell work. Until now, the efficiency of OSCs has been thought to be constrained by the speed at which energy carriers called excitons move between localized sites in the organic material layer of the device.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Scientists are collecting photographs of the insects’ eggs to train an algorithm and curtail their rapid spread. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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