Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This week, New York City is hosting the UN General Assembly meetings and the annual Climate Week events. With the continued trend of extreme climate-fueled disasters around the world—including deadly and damaging heatwaves, floods, fires, and storms—the urgency of solutions for the climate crisis couldn’t be clearer. What we hear from world leaders this week will give us an indication of their seriousness in helping to secure an ambitious outcome at the annual UN climate talks, COP29 , in Baku,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This post was co-authored by Ruben Aronin , Principal of the Better World Group. With just weeks to go before November 5, all eyes are on the election, including what it means for environmental policy. And yet, one of the largest threats to California’s clean transportation leadership in recent history has materialized right under our noses — and it’s coming from our own legislature.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips, Taiwan is struggling to meet demand for electricity. Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the island is heading toward an energy crunch.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Now, try poking your nose into a cauldron of simmering beef fat and you’ll understand what the title of this article means. Beef tallow is a superb product but has that distinct stink that seems to be worse than that of normal beef. This reality prevents many people from utilising this product. But this shouldn’t stop us from enjoying this golden niceness.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Last week, we received our voter information guides in the mailbox. Before I had a chance to even take a look, I found my fifth-grader reading through the guide with a checklist. Looking over her shoulder, I saw her list of the proposition numbers – most with question marks next to them – but one with a big, bold check mark: Proposition 4. Even though I hadn’t said a word, she gets it.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible. Fears that growing human impacts might push aspects of the global climate past such ‘tipping points’ are not new.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Neuroscientists have been surprised to discover that the human brain is teeming with microbes, and we are beginning to suspect they could play a role in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As human actions worsen climate change, severity and frequency of extreme weather events increase. Within the category of extreme weather events, heat waves and cold flashes push the human body to its upper and lower limits of temperature regulation. When the power fails , our homes are similarly unable to regulate their interior temperatures. However, homes with energy efficiency retrofits can retain cool or warm air longer , while simultaneously saving money throughout normal yearly temperatur

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Did you see the story about a new ‘NFL first’? The San Francisco 49ers announced that it was the first NFL franchise to buy sustainable aviation fuel or SAF —enough to fly from San Francisco to LA for their Sunday game against the LA Rams. The story generated headlines , the way any “first” tends to. The 49ers called it “ a meaningful part of our commitment to more sustainable practices” and praised United for its SAF program, which both companies said can reduce greenhouse gas emissions “by up

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Earth saw a surge in heat-trapping methane. While some researchers believe the spike was related to a global drop in traffic during the pandemic, a new study finds the sudden rise in methane levels was mostly due to the flooding of tropical wetlands.

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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remove unwanted objects or beautify scenes, but doing so leads to people misremembering what they have seen

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Neurons in certain brain areas integrate ‘what’ and ‘when’ information to discern hidden order in events happening in real time

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This morning, Governor Newsom signed a trio of bills— AB 3233 (Addis), AB 1866 (Hart), and AB 2716 (Bryan)—that will protect communities in Los Angeles and across the state from the harms of oil and gas production, the impacts of which are disproportionately experienced in low-income communities of color across the state. He signed the package on a Los Angeles soccer field that overlooks oil wells, joined by community organizers who have led the charge for years.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The world is nearly on track to triple renewable power by the end of this decade. A major barrier to meeting that goal, or surpassing it, analysts say, is the speed of permitting wind and solar projects and of building new transmission lines.

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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with important implications for tackling political polarisation and the future of AI

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

With contaminated wells, climate-fueled drought, and limited access to safe water sources, a study seeks solutions—and perspective—from the reservation’s residents.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since the Pavley Act passed in 2002, California has been a leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. Even today, a third of all new U.S. electric vehicles (EVs) are sold in California. Getting here has been the result of a long regulatory process, which helped create a market for companies like Tesla. Achieving California’s ambitious targets will require an exponential increase in EV sales over the next eleven years.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Scientists have found that some extinct volcanoes, which have not erupted for thousands or millions of years, may contain key metals used in clean energy.

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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice sheet thicker, offering a possible way to preserve sea ice throughout the summer

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The public comment period for the US Forest Service’s proposed National Old Growth Amendment closed on September 20th. Hundreds of thousands of people wrote in to critique the agency’s proposal, which falls short of it’s intended purpose to protect public.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A species of legged fish uses taste receptors to search for hidden prey, providing an ideal window for scientists to study the emergence of new evolutionary traits

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The PA Wilds Conservation Shop at Leonard Harrison State Park in Tioga County is holding a special “Second Look” event on October 10 to celebrate the shop and the installation of new viewfinders that will allow colorblind visitors to enjoy the colorful fall foliage for the first time. The newly installed colorblindness viewfinders, which were made possible in part thanks to donations made to the Charity Checkout for Conservation at the PA Wilds Conservation Shops.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A US standards agency has issued new guidance saying organisations shouldn’t require users to change their passwords periodically – advice that is backed up by decades of research

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In the past few centuries—a geologic instant—the unfathomably long and patient work of Earth is being undone. Text and photos by David Sassoon PLEASANT VALLEY, Mass.—It wasn’t long after dawn—still the cool of the day—but I could feel the weight of summer bearing down. The creek was barely trickling, the beaver pond stagnant. Few insects disturbed its gray surface.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through their own institutions

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If we want to preserve the dwindling ice in the Arctic, cutting our emissions is no longer enough – we also need to use geoengineering to refreeze this precious ecosystem

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new analysis finds that companies relying on agricultural commodities are making some progress, but decarbonizing the food system is proving difficult. By Georgina Gustin Some of the country’s biggest food companies are making a small dent in their greenhouse gas emissions, but most are failing to make substantial and critical reductions, even as consumers and government regulators are pushing harder for them to do so.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Quirky perspectives, separated lovebirds and a tobogganing penguin star in 2024 winners of the world’s largest bird photography competition

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the September 28 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 28 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the September 28 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the proposed Air Quality Maintenance Plan for the Harrisburg/ York Nonattainment Area to meet the fine particulate matter air quality standard.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced by aircraft have a net cooling effect in the daytime because they reflect sunlight back into space

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Emissions of the long-overlooked nitrous oxide gas are rising quickly. But proven, low-cost efforts to reduce emissions offer hope. By Phil McKenna NEW YORK—As scientists, policymakers and environmental advocates seek to accelerate efforts to address climate change, they’re zeroing in on a pollutant long considered the “forgotten greenhouse gas.

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