Environmental News Bits

JULY 22, 2022

According to its developers, the new method shows great promise in meeting the demand for more sustainable options within the plastics … Continue reading Academics develop PET-like plastics from biomass waste.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Advocates of greater transparency say the change, proposed by the federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI), would boost public confidence in research and … Continue reading Federal agency’s plan to disclose university misconduct findings splits academics

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2022

A recent University of Michigan study found a correlation between the Flint water crisis and a decrease in academic performance for school-age children. However, later studies revealed elevated levels of … Continue reading UMich study finds correlation between Flint water crisis and poor academic performance.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

As the the new academic year begins, we have gathered our top article collections on education. Suggest your topic The post Back to school: article collections to get you ready for the new academic year first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers. With collective views of over 2.9 14 articles | 199,000 views.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 2, 2022

Given the publication incentives of academic researchers and given their finite research budgets, they have strong incentives to pursue treatment effect designs that are effective. Researchers cannot publish papers that say; "I tried this crazed treatment and it turned out to have no effect.".

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From ketamine in a London kitchen to wachuma in the Colombian Amazon, self-described "douchey forty-nine-year-old psychedelic virgin" and neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell hopes his trips will teach us more about the drugs

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Anti-racism praxis in an emerging community-academic approach to environmental and climate justice.” A LeBron, A Reyes, M Lopez, L Saxon, J Bloom, C Taylor Lucas (2023). ” European Journal of Public Health, 33(Issue Supplement_2) ckad160.1180.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 7, 2021

Across all of the world's economists; #9 in Environmental Economics #25 in Urban economics #4 in Resource Economics #27 in Energy Economics

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2023

Research experience is still the most sought-after attribute in senior academic scientists, a study finds. Read the full story in Nature.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2021

On August 23, Kutztown University and Rodale Institute , Kutztown, Berks County, signed a five-year agreement of academic cooperation establishing a research affiliation for the mutual benefit of both institutions. Rodale Institute is a nonprofit research and education institution founded in 1947 by organic pioneer J.I.

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Frontiers

JULY 5, 2022

Perhaps the biggest misconception is that open science is something just for researchers and academics. The post Prof Jeff Camkin: “The biggest misconception is that open science is just for researchers and academics. Are there any common misconceptions about this area of research? How would you address them?

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Nature

MAY 31, 2021

Nature, Published online: 01 June 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-01468-z Academic bullying: mediatiors hear both sides

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Legal Planet

MARCH 11, 2024

But by academic standards, we’ve done pretty well, with close to 2 million total views. (It The ‘global challenge of climate change’ is the driving force behind the blog, said Carlson.” The part about the “mass audience” was perhaps a little overly optimistic.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 6, 2023

Read the full story from the Chronicle of Higher Education. You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case.

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

Even though it sounds like a fair chunk of the money will go for posh new buildings rather than academic substance, Stanford’s hiring plans have real significance. In my next post, I’ll talk about the possible advantages of creating new academic units. Other leading private universities seem to be making efforts of their own.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 18, 2021

Schools, colleges and universities that fail to impose mask mandates and other COVID protections put working parents in an excruciating position. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 7, 2023

Read the full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Popular writing should be as rigorous as scholarship — but much easier to read.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 25, 2021

Read the full story in The Irish Times. The Greenwatch Project, which launched last year, is developing artificial intelligence-based methods to detect greenwashing, in order to improve the measurement of progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These included inviting academic researchers and activists to share their knowledge to the public, to ask election candidates to answer questionnaires focused on science policy, and to train scientists on how to best communicate their science to policy makers.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Read the full story from IOP Publishing. IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching three new, fully open access (OA) journals, extending the?publisher’s publisher’s Environmental Research series. IOPP’s Environmental Research Series now comprises of six titles that collectively address all major areas of environmental science. Environmental Research:?Health?(ERH)?and

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 6, 2023

The LIGH2T Hub, a Texas consortium of academic and commercial partners, received encouragement from the U.S. DOE to submit a proposal for a regional clean hydrogen hub on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The post Gulf Coast Partners Encouraged to Apply for the DOE’s Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 23, 2021

Read the full story from the University of Bath. The University of Bath is coordinating a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero carbon emissions. Read more →

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

Last September, the Department of Education released new proposed academic standards for science that do not explicitly include Environment, Ecology and Agriculture standards. The existing Environment and Ecology standards were separate and distinct and applied to all educational disciplines.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Academic freedom is an ironclad principle in the scholarly world. Yet, we have observed that academic freedom has come under pressure in recent years. Christian Ehler shared insights into a worrying precedent set by the Hungarian university case, where academic freedom faced a disconcerting threat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Earlier this year, The Guardian ran a powerful article exposing the ties of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic publishing companies, to the fossil fuel industry. The article caught my attention because I’d never considered the ways in which an academic publisher might be perpetuating and enabling a fossil fuel economy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Whether it’s worth pulling various academic efforts are ultimately depends on how strongly they’re connected. Universities are going to have to figure out new ways of dealing with the interconnections, which will mean finding ways to break across current academic structures. Breaking Across Existing Structures.

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New Scientist

MARCH 23, 2022

A scintillating piece of research into the traits we associate with boring people, plus Feedback’s take on whether there are more doors or wheels in the world, and an asteroid half the size of a giraffe

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Whether China should pay carbon reparations is an academic question in two very different senses. It’s academic in the colloquial sense, given how unlikely it is that Xi Jinping would ever agree to reparations.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In Illinois, one retired academic united her neighbors to fight a key project. Lured by billions of dollars in federal funding for carbon capture, developers are proposing huge pipelines to carry the CO2 across the Midwest.

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Environmental Science

JULY 29, 2018

As with botany and several other biological sciences, zoology is relatively new as far as being an academic discipline is concerned. But the war would soon be over at least as far as the academic community was concerned. Parasitology is an academic subdiscipline of biology, it is not limited to animals, but concerns plants as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With little outside funding—their $328 website fee was crowdfunded amongst themselves—their greatest assets were science literacy and research skills developed through years of conducting academic research. Through a partnership with community groups, V-SCI contributed scientific analyses that advocates often struggle to find.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2023

These tactics include regulations on actions directly connected to voting and attempts to limit freedom of speech and academic life on public campuses, both of which can disengage students from the political process. This effect will be compounded by other recent legislation that targets academic freedom on public college campuses.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Of course, academics are by and large extremely intelligent people and contrary to rumor, many are very personable. Folks, these are people who couldn’t conspire their way out of a paper bag. But the hiring process is basically designed to weed out team players.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Anthropogenic noise pollution is plaguing our oceans and stressing marine fauna far more than previously understood, researchers concluded in a new analysis of more than 10,000 academic papers published in the journal Science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2022

Recently, UCS organized a sign-on letter endorsed by 10 scientific, professional, and academic organizations, asking 24 federal science agencies about their progress toward advancing more inclusive science advice. You can find the full text of the letter below or at this link.

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