Yale E360
JANUARY 13, 2022
Amazon Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia has fought against massive dam projects and the incursion of illegal loggers and miners onto her community’s lands. In a Yale e360 interview, she explains why what’s at stake is the survival of her people and their millennia-old way of life. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
Yale postdoctoral fellow Aileen Fernandez writes about how she and her colleagues have come together to help retain, support, and provide community for underrepresented minority postdocs at Yale University.
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Circle of Blue
JANUARY 13, 2022
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. The U. K. Environment Agency directs employees to ignore some incidents of pollution, according to a leaked internal report. Some seasonal workers in the U. K. report “unacceptable” accommodations, including lack of running water. Ethiopia will begin generating power from a controversial Nile River dam. The U. S. Navy agrees to drain fuel tanks that are believed to have contaminated water supplies near Pearl Harbor.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 14, 2022
Environmental and conservation groups have for a number of years attempted to convince California courts of the need to integrate climate change considerations into environmental analyses prepared under the state’s most important environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). However, the California judiciary has demonstrated little appetite for doing so.
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
JANUARY 11, 2022
From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
UCS Climate and Energy program policy director Rachel Cleetus breaks down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest report on costly, dangerous climate-related disasters in 2021.
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New Scientist
JANUARY 13, 2022
Declines in birds and mammals are hampering plants by curbing the dispersal of their seeds, in a "clear intersection of the biodiversity crisis heavily impacting the climate crisis"
Yale E360
JANUARY 10, 2022
2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record and close to 1.2 degrees C (2.1 degrees F) warmer than the preindustrial average, according to an analysis from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The last seven years were the hottest ever "by a clear margin," the analysis found, thanks to rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses, which hit new highs last year.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
Reflections on the film, "Don't Look Up.".
Scientific American
JANUARY 12, 2022
Impaired blood flow leads to loss of limbs. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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
JANUARY 12, 2022
Sign languages are flourishing in many parts of the world.
Yale E360
JANUARY 14, 2022
Berlin's regional parliament is considering creating a car-free zone in the German capital in response to a concerted push from a local advocacy group. The car ban would apply to the space ringed by the S-Bahn train line, which circles the city center, an area larger than Manhattan. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
JANUARY 12, 2022
The strategic focus on quantum science and engineering in the UK has over the last few years generated a vibrant community of start-up companies that are aiming to build the quantum computers of the future. “We’re seeing that quantum ecosystem grow very rapidly,” says Michael Cuthbert, director of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), a new facility that is now being built on the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire. “The start-up companies that have emerged, predomina
Scientific American
JANUARY 11, 2022
A critical care nurse confronts the Omicron surge filling her hospital. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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
JANUARY 13, 2022
In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilometres
Yale E360
JANUARY 12, 2022
Coal is down and oil is up according to the latest projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Coal plants will account for 85 percent of power capacity being retired in the U.S. this year, consistent with a long-term downward trend in coal burning, while U.S. oil output is expected to increase in 2022 and hit a new high in 2023.
Physics World
JANUARY 11, 2022
Complex numbers are essential to achieve the most accurate quantum-mechanical description of nature, according to experiments done by two independent teams of physicists. Both studies were inspired by the Bell’s inequality test of quantum theory and suggest that complex numbers are more than just a mathematical convenience when it comes to the formulation of quantum mechanics.
Scientific American
JANUARY 10, 2022
Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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
JANUARY 12, 2022
The solar system lies inside a structure called the Local Bubble that is some 1000 light years across – and a map of its surface shows it is the site of star formation
Cool Green Science
JANUARY 11, 2022
A Steller's sea eagle has turned up in New England. Learn more about this bird's remarkable and unexpected journey. The post An Asian Sea Eagle Is Roaming New England appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Physics World
JANUARY 8, 2022
Using a technique known as strain engineering, researchers in the US and Germany have constructed an “excitonic wire” – a one-dimensional channel through which electron-hole pairs (excitons) can flow in a two-dimensional semiconductor like water through a pipe. The work could aid the development of a new generation of transistor-like devices. In the study, a team led by Vinod Menon at the City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Discovery and Innovation and Alexey Chernikov at the Dresden Univ
Scientific American
JANUARY 10, 2022
You might not think that you can generate more body acceleration than a big-league baseball pitcher, but new research shows you can. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2022
Eucalyptus trees rely on root fungi to source nutrients and water – but the fungi actually control the genetic development of the tree roots by releasing tiny chunks of RNA
Frontiers
JANUARY 12, 2022
Frontiers has won the Best Culture of Learning category at the 2021 LinkedIn Talent Awards. Each year, LinkedIn recognizes organizations that have ‘ demonstrated adaptability, innovation, and creativity’ in the talent space through its learning platform, LinkedIn Talent Solutions. Frontiers has been recognized as the best middle-sized company in Switzerland for investing in the learning and development of its staff, connecting them to relevant and applicable training programs, and supporting the
Physics World
JANUARY 10, 2022
Another challenging cancer site – another difficult radiation treatment to plan. Scientists at Duke University Medical Center and UNC Charlotte have developed a deep transfer learning model that automates radiotherapy planning for some of these tricky-to-plan cancers. They published their methods in Physics in Medicine & Biology. Why transfer learning?
Scientific American
JANUARY 10, 2022
For billions of years Earth was quiet. Then life got loud. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2022
On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013.
New Scientist
JANUARY 14, 2022
Early Bronze Age people in Syria crossed donkeys with wild asses to make prized horse-like hybrids, demonstrating advanced understanding of animal breeding
Physics World
JANUARY 14, 2022
An in-depth knowledge of human organs and how they form is pivotal to understanding how diseases affect these tissues. Unfortunately, it remains inherently difficult to study living organs as they develop inside us. Thus, over the last decade, scientists developed organoids: three-dimensional organ models that self-organize to mimic true organ behaviour.
Scientific American
JANUARY 14, 2022
Their ability to track climate change is being squeezed on all sides. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
The Applied Ecologist
JANUARY 13, 2022
Climate change and anthropogenic activities are jeopardising coastal ecosystems world-wide. Once degraded, these valuable ecosystems are not easy to recover. In their latest research, Hao Huang and colleagues conducted transplanting experiments to search for the optimal spatial design of coastal restoration. Few ecosystems can equate to coastal wetlands in terms of connections with humans.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2022
The ancient Egyptians were adept at bandaging dead bodies during the mummification process, but we have had no evidence of the way they dressed flesh wounds until now
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