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 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.
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
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.
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.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Scientists have successfully bred corals that are more tolerant of heat, showing for the first time that corals can become better adapted to warming within the space of a single generation.
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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 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 17, 2024
On a single day in August, Nigerian officials recovered more than 9 tons of illicit pangolin scales. The stockpile would be worth an estimated $1.7 million in East Asia, where pangolin scales are sold for their use in traditional medicine.
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: 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 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 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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Data use for everything from video conferences to cryptocurrency to calendars, and related data center construction, is booming. Infrastructure and resources for those data centers are relatively scarce. How will we go forward? Is this a lawless frontier for an industrial revolution that breaks the bounds of human activity, or will we find constraints and apply limits that protect the health and welfare benefits of our society and economy?
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 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
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.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Young adults with higher levels of certain “forever chemicals" in their blood reported poorer sleep, a new study finds.
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
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 15, 2024
A simulator for the process of scientific discovery shows that AI agents still fall short of human scientists and engineers in coming up with hypotheses and carrying out experiments on their own
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.
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.
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.
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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
Scientific American
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
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.
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.
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.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 18, 2024
By Patrick McDonnell, CEO of PennFuture , Former Secretary of DEP This guest essay first appeared in the Observer-Reporter on October 17, 2024 Politicians often speak out against higher taxes, grocery bills, or utility rates, promising to work hard in office to prevent you from paying more. However, there is one notable exception: how much you pay for natural gas.
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
Cool Green Science
OCTOBER 13, 2024
New titles on birding, backyard nature, cowgirl conservation and more. The post Cool Green Book Review: October 2024 appeared first on Cool Green Science.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 14, 2024
A new way to store numbers in computers can dynamically prioritise accuracy or range, depending on need, allowing software to quickly switch between very large and small numbers
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2024
On October 9, Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) and Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated.
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