Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
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Science & Climate
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
This study provides the most detailed mapping yet of how summer temperatures in 20 urban centers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas affected different neighborhoods between 2018 and 2020. The researchers found even greater heat disparities in California than in other states.
Physics World
JUNE 2, 2022
He asked if I wanted to move to China and I joined the IGG in May 2018. Bombarded by cosmic radiation, they usually contain noble gases such as helium and neon. The Chinese government got the situation under control pretty quickly. Why are meteorites interesting? Those were a few stressful months.
Physics World
AUGUST 23, 2021
You’re combining your new role with your existing position at the University of Glasgow, where you’ve been since 2018. Keeping the chips well isolated from infrared radiation running down the coaxial lines or from outside the sample package is a big challenge, as is keeping it cold when pulsing more and more qubits simultaneously.
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
But if they are thin and transparent, they reflect very little sunlight and instead trap a lot of the heat radiating from the Earth, resulting in a net warming effect. Retrieved March 31, 2023, from [link] “Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance” at NAP.edu. 2010, November 2).
Physics World
MAY 11, 2022
Construction time The synchrocyclotron’s single magnet being slowly moved into place partially underground to help with radiation shielding. Being partially buried would help with radiation shielding, as well as the 30 tonne door, and walls comprised of nearly 1.8 m of concrete, behind which was approximately 3.7 m thick ceiling.
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