Yale E360
JUNE 3, 2021
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 2, 2021
This year and next, Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, is a centerpiece for water supplies in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Mead’s declining water levels, projected to reach record lows in the next two years, will challenge water managers in the basin.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 1, 2021
The US scientific research enterprise is completely intertwined with US global hegemony.
Legal Planet
MAY 31, 2021
This post was delayed due to a technical problem at Legal Planet, but it was originally scheduled for Memorial Day — an apt date to think about how wars, along with their other tragic costs, impact the environment. We are now in the process of ending our “Forever War” in Afghanistan. The country has been at war at least since the Soviet invasion decades ago.
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.
Yale E360
JUNE 4, 2021
Countries need to fulfill their commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land, an area larger than China, by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 3, 2021
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. A new study finds greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s reservoirs are higher than earlier estimates. Purchases of farmland in the U.S. Southwest by foreign companies draw attention to water scarcity concerns. Germany announced over $1 billion in development funds, including allocations for water supply projects, to Namibia more than 100 years after a mass genocide.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 3, 2021
Last month, Miami appointed the country’s first Chief Heat Officer charged with addressing the impacts of extreme heat. Heat is already the leading climate-related cause of death and health impacts, responsible for thousands of US deaths and emergency room visits each year and countless hours of lost productivity and educational attainment. Recent research indicates that over one third of global heat-related deaths (which total tens of millions since the 1990s) are attributable to anthropogenic
Yale E360
JUNE 1, 2021
The oil and gas giant BP has agreed to buy a group of U.S. solar energy farms that, once completed, will be capable of generating enough electricity to power 1.7 million homes. Read more on E360 ?.
Scientific American
JUNE 4, 2021
Fusion devices for clean, safe, and affordable electricity and industrial heat are making advances and need a push. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 3, 2021
The John Lewis Voting Rights advancement act must be passed to protect the universal right to vote and keep it free from political influence.
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
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy. The clustering of these events dramatizes an important shift. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the end of the beginning of the campaign against them.
Physics World
JUNE 4, 2021
Black holes are nature’s fastest data-scramblers, and new research suggests that secrets thrown into them may be more secure than previously thought. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters , researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the US show that once a message has been scrambled by a black hole or another system with similar properties, not even a quantum computer can put it back together.
Scientific American
JUNE 4, 2021
Old maps of snow depth on the ice had led researchers to underestimate melting. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 3, 2021
Radical changes to core electoral procedures are transforming several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.
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.
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Contrary to expectations (including my own!), its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned f
New Scientist
JUNE 3, 2021
Neurological and psychiatric symptoms such as fatigue and depression are common among people with covid-19 and may be just as likely in people with mild cases
Scientific American
JUNE 2, 2021
There is a surprising correlation between baseline pupil size and several measures of cognitive ability. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 1, 2021
From COVID-19, to toxics, to health--there's a lot to watch for.
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.
Physics World
JUNE 4, 2021
Iron Man, Doctor Octopus, Wolverine, even Geordi LaForge. Body augmentation has been fantasized by writers for decades. Many readers have questioned how realistic the development of such technologies might be in today’s world, as this futuristic vision relies on the human brain’s ability to interface with external devices and learn to use them. Researchers from University College London are investigating the use of motor augmentation with the development of a “Third Thumb,” publishing their find
New Scientist
JUNE 1, 2021
The highest-resolution image of atoms has been captured, doubling the resolution of an image made in 2018 by using an algorithm to reduce blurring
Scientific American
JUNE 3, 2021
The space agency’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions could spark a sea change in planetary science when they launch later this decade. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 3, 2021
What ALS can teach us about degenerative conditions like climate change.
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Physics World
JUNE 3, 2021
An Israeli-led collaboration has used atom-chip technology to build a magnet-based interferometer. The collaboration’s research, which combines aspects of two famous physics experiments from the past, reveals that the division of particle spins into two populations – as observed by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach a century ago – involves pure quantum states.
New Scientist
JUNE 4, 2021
An estimated 1 million people reported experiencing long covid in the latest UK statistics, and 376,000 of them suspect they first caught the coronavirus at least a year ago
Scientific American
JUNE 4, 2021
We must say no to science that exploits people. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Cool Green Science
JUNE 1, 2021
Cicadas are in the news, but here are 5 other natural spectacles to catch. The post Move Over, Cicadas: 5 Other Great North American Wildlife Hatchings (and Emergences) appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Physics World
JUNE 2, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are increasingly employed for biomedical data analysis, for applications such as helping clinicians detect cancers in medical images, for example. AI models require large and diverse training datasets, most commonly anonymized or pseudonymized patient data, which are sent to the clinics where the algorithm is being trained.
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 3, 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE SUPPORT, TORONTO ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE, CITIZENS’ NETWORK ON WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTE WATCH OTTAWA AND CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION. Toronto, Ont. – Today, Minister Yurek announced changes to Ontario’s Blue Box recycling program. Unfortunately, this long-awaited shift of responsibility for Blue Box recycling from municipalities to the businesses who make, use and sell packaging will do little to reduce plastic pollution.
Scientific American
JUNE 1, 2021
This Pride Month, discover the science supporting equality and antidiscrimination. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Frontiers
MAY 30, 2021
By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer. A productive lettuce yield following the researchers’ new biodisinfestation method. Image: Maite Gandariasbeitia et al. A new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers has demonstrated that beer bagasse and rapeseed cake can be used as effective biodisinfestation treatments to reduce populations of soil parasites and increase crop yields.
Physics World
MAY 30, 2021
We’ve all heard about the promise of quantum technologies to transform business and industry, whether it be for more secure communications networks or vastly more powerful computation. But what is needed to translate experimental quantum research into commercial success, and when can we expect it to happen? According to speakers at the inaugural Quantum West conference, the transition from lab-based R&D towards market-ready solutions is already under way.
Legal Planet
JUNE 2, 2021
New UC Berkeley/UCLA Law report discusses policy solutions to accelerate investment in nature-based climate solutions in California. Register for a free webinar on Wednesday, June 16 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Time with an expert panel to learn about the top findings. This post is co-authored by Katie Segal and Ted Lamm. Some of the most promising, cost-effective climate change solutions are in our own backyards.
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