Legal Planet
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Elections are primarily about electing candidates, but many states have adopted some form of popular democracy. This year, the highest-profile state initiatives are about abortion. But there are also seven state initiatives relating to energy and environment. Of those, the two biggest are a $10 billion green bond proposal in California and a proposed rollback of Washington State’s new cap-and-trade program.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Plankton form the base of the world’s food chain, but warmer and more acidic oceans are affecting their numbers and variety. Some species, on which fish rely, are in decline; others, which soak up carbon, are on the rise, while others are shifting their range and bloom times.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 15, 2024
For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. It does me. This summer my family vacationed in Vancouver, BC, Canada where we had the good fortune of going on a whale watching trip and seeing majestic orcas.
Real Climate
OCTOBER 18, 2024
An interesting commentary addressing a rather odd prior commentary makes some very correct points. Back a few months there was a poorly argued and rather confusing commenary by Ulf Büntgen ( Buntgen, 2024 ) that started: I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
In an era where efficiency is king, are you leveraging the right tools to transform your manufacturing processes? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is critical for enhancing operational efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing energy usage—key factors for improving your bottom line and lowering your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, a manufacturing technology expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience, in this new webinar as he uncovers the secrets of MES and how to best utilize thes
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The polls are predicting very tight election results. The state results could turn out to be within the margin of error, with half going one way and half the other. But there’s another plausible outcome: a sweep by one side or the other because the polls were all off a few percent in the same direction. If you could get a large and truly random sample of the population and get them to answer all questions truthfully right before they voted, the life of a pollster would be much easier.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 15, 2024
As ocean temperatures remain stubbornly high, forecasters see a diminished chance that the Pacific Ocean will enter its cooler La Niña phase this fall, as was predicted.
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New Scientist
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Next-generation phone networks could dramatically outperform current ones thanks to a new technique for transmitting multiple streams of data over a wide range of frequencies
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 14, 2024
West of Sydney, Australia, lies the Blue Mountains, a range of plateaus and panoramic canyons forested with eucalyptus trees. Oil in the leaves produces a bluish haze, hence the name of the area. Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, a new NGO called Forest Trends brought together a small international group to the town of Katoomba to brainstorm over increasing capital flows to protect nature, how to “make trees worth more standing than cut down.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Young adults with higher levels of certain “forever chemicals" in their blood reported poorer sleep, a new study finds.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 16, 2024
In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its updated forecast for the 2024 hurricane season. It was to be above normal in every regard: more named storms and stronger hurricanes than usual. One of the main reasons for this forecast? Significantly warmer than usual surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, which come largely as a result of human-caused climate change.
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
New Scientist
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The first breakthrough in finding prime numbers for over 25 years has mathematicians celebrating, with hopes that the techniques behind the new proof could further advance other areas of maths
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Since U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted earlier this month that “Yes they can control the weather” — a bunch of commentators have pointed out that she’s wildly wrong. Yes, she’s wildly wrong. No one can make, intensify, or steer hurricanes. No ability to do anything like this is even on the horizon. Her comment obviously got traction because it plugged into a deep strain of populist paranoia, including active, current conspiracies.
Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 12, 2024
A rapid analysis of rainfall trends and Gulf of Mexico temperatures shows many similarities to Hurricane Helene less than two weeks earlier. By Sean Sublette A preliminary analysis from the team of scientists at World Weather Attribution indicates the rainfall from Hurricane Milton across Florida was 20 percent to 30 percent heavier and rainfall intensity was about twice as likely as it would have been in the climate of the late 19th century.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Power plants fueled by methane gas have a serious climate problem. The fuel, commonly known as natural gas, now powers the biggest portion of US electricity generation—more than 40 percent. It has also grown to be the largest source of carbon pollution from the US power sector, even as zero-carbon renewable energy has been growing by leaps and bounds.
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.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Producing a kilogram of farmed salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish, which isn't a sustainable approach to feeding the world's growing population
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The following notices were published in the October 19 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Keith Eighmey - Martinez #2 Conventional Gas Well: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium and zinc to meet Statewide Health Standards at the well locate
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia alone often fall through the cracks
National Law Center
OCTOBER 17, 2024
On September 28, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB660 into law. This bill was the first in the nation to. The post Date Labels and the New California Law appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
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.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The following notices were published in the October 12 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- Pennsylvania General Energy Co, LLC - Natural Gas, Water Pipelines: DEP issued a Chapter 105 permit covering the installation of nearly four miles of two pipelines in one right-of-way with multiple stream crossings and other impacts located in Cummings and McHenry Townships, Lycoming County.
Scientific American
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally
Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Among environmentalists, government agencies and logging interests, a war of words is raging over the future of our forests. By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
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New Scientist
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Britain should be too cold for the invasive Aesculapian snake to survive, but it is thriving by exploiting the warmth of attics, wall cavities and compost heaps
NRDC
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Syracuse is facing a drinking water safety crisis, as city tests reveal lead levels are more than double levels found by independent experts in the infamous lead in water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan and significantly worse than those in.
Scientific American
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter
National Law Center
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Over the past decade, foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land have grown. At the start of 2023, foreign persons held an. The post Focusing on Foreign Investments: Congressional Considerations on Evaluating Foreign Acquisitions in U.S. Agriculture appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 15, 2024
A mathematical study finds that three definitions of what it means for entropy to increase, which have previously been considered equivalent, can produce different results in the quantum realm
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Concern focused on Ontario’s lack of data and reckless approach to species at risk, navigable waters and duty to consult with Indigenous communities Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – A recent Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) release has revealed a litany of concerns expressed by the federal government about Ontario’s approach to protecting key values threatened by the proposed construction of Highway
Scientific American
OCTOBER 14, 2024
While many researchers celebrated this year’s chemistry and physics prizes, others were disappointed by the focus on computational methods.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
On October 17, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources issued its fourth Fall Foliage Report saying consistently cold nights and cool days have spurred a very colorful change in Penn’s Woods! Bright color can be found from the southern Poconos though the middle and southern Appalachians. The Allegheny Plateau is gorgeous from northwestern Pennsylvania to the southwestern reaches of the Commonwealth.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 18, 2024
AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output, but a range of jailbreaks have been found to evade them. Now researchers show that writing backwards can trick AI models into revealing bomb-making instructions.
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Public transit is at the nexus of solving Canada’s most pressing challenges. It is a solution to the rising cost of living. It helps us reduce carbon emissions. It is the most powerful method of tackling traffic congestion. It is the lifeblood of economic growth in our towns and cities. It enables building the kind of dense, sustainable and cost-efficient housing supply we need to tackle the housing crisis.
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