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The Livestock Industry’s Secret Weapons: Expert Academics

Inside Climate News

A new paper traces the financial ties between the livestock industry and academic research. By Georgina Gustin When researchers at the United Nations published a bombshell report in 2006 called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” the livestock industry soon realized it had a major public relations challenge on its hands.

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How to Take on a Pipeline (and Win)

Union of Concerned Scientists

This was a rare moment when the cumulative voices of affected communities who watched their fields wash away due to pipeline construction rose above the influence of a major player in the energy industry. Through a partnership with community groups, V-SCI contributed scientific analyses that advocates often struggle to find.

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Navigating Net Zero Via the Law  

Union of Concerned Scientists

This was the question that prompted a study we wrote with eight other scholars from the Climate Social Science Network , an academic collaborative that investigates climate policy obstruction. Comparative studies are not just academic exercises.

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Citations in science are biased towards a handful of nations – and the gap is growing

Physics World

The study has been conducted by a team led by Charles Gomez from the City University of New York, who examined around 20 million academic papers across nearly 150 fields published between 1980 and 2012. These "over-cited" scientists end up receiving more citations than academics in other countries who work on similar topics.

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AES Corporation Announces Completion Of 220 MW Solar Energy Facilities In Franklin, Fulton Counties To Power University Of Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

The project will generate enough energy to power 70% of the total electricity demand of Penn's academic campuses and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, helping to support the University's goal of achieving a 100% carbon neutral campus by 2042. Bcfd Reduction During Winter Storm Elliott; 20.4 Bcfd Reduction In Feb.

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An A to Z of Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine.

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Lack of non-English languages in STEM publications hurts diversity

Environmental News Bits

With today’s existing translation tools to overcome language barriers, global collaboration should be no major feat for researchers. academics wasted… Read more → As a result, U.S.

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