Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Just before he became a part of the ice record, he wrote: “We are approaching a new era of polar exploration characterized by the successful utilization of new technologies in a rational manner. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. 1 ( July/August 2025 ), p.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

Bayer set aside $16 billion to settle claims and since 2018 has paid over $14 billion in judgments to 115,000 Americans who asserted they werent warned about the chemicals hazards. The convergence of chemistry and biotechnology in crop production was so valuable that Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion.

Biotechnology

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

New C in Arizonas Economic Geography The server fervor extends to the highest reaches of government. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue Amber Walsh, an analyst with Bluefield Research, said that data center water use is a complex topic because of rapid technological change in the industry. For water, we know what we need to do.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

For weeks, President Trump has allowed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to decimate governments ability to serve the public good, firing employees and closing offices that protect consumers , safeguard our health , and even provide basic services. The first was that Musk was wildly overselling the technology.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One can also look at the battery research happening at the University of Texas, which holds potential to improve technology from smartphones to electric cars. This doesn’t even include the money transferred to universities through traditional government issued student loans, which reaches about $100 billion each year.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

For weeks, President Trump has allowed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to decimate governments ability to serve the public good, firing employees and closing offices that protect consumers , safeguard our health , and even provide basic services. The first was that Musk was wildly overselling the technology.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 13, 2025

Several of the organizations that signed the letter also endorsed a 2018 report that highlighted instances of Trump administration nominees and appointees who werent qualified for the job or had such extensive conflicts of interest that they couldnt follow ethics guidelines without recusing themselves from large portions of the agencys work.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

million for multiple, serious violations related to the construction of the Mariner East Pipelines and the Revolution Pipelines starting in 2018 that resulted in an explosion, contamination of water supplies, pollution of the Marsh Creek State Park lake and the lake at the Raystown Lake Recreation Area. Read more here.] Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. I sounded this alarm in 2018. Here is a summary of comments by some of the witnesses before the Committee. Read more here. ] Read more here. ]

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

All of which comes on top of a staffing gap that FEMA and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreed was at 35% in 2022 and the Congressional Research Service suggested is likely much higher. The cancellation of these grants will disrupt projects already underway or planned by emergency managers and local and Tribal governments.

2006

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

While the benefits of the technology are clear to many, its worth considering the fuller range from time to time. And for places where the water gets deep quickly as you move away from land, like off the West Coast and in the Gulf of Maine, floating offshore wind technology is maturing rapidly. Support good decision making.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of Donald Trump’s handing an ever-increasing role to Elon Musk in his government, people are right to be angry about the responsibilities and freedoms the worlds richest man can wield. It is presented as a state-media publication platform. Many might not know this, but Musk did not create Tesla.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 25, 2025

have been infected, with a total of more than 174 million birds lost, according to government data as of early June. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. Bartels: Since 2022, 787 commercial flocks and 919 backyard flocks in the U.S.

2015

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

He also laid the foundation for novel technologies that are central to today’s “second quantum revolution”. Under her leadership, SNU received the title of “Institution of Eminence” from the government of India within just a few years of its existence. She is also a big advocate for equality in physics.

Technology

Physics World

JUNE 28, 2025

Quantum technology is rapidly growing with job demand tripling in the US along with venture capital bringing in billions of dollars into the field. One aim of the report is to reduce the complexity of quantum technology and to make the field more accessible and inclusive for entrepreneurs, investors, designers, teachers and decision makers.

Technology

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

While there are approximately twenty-eight states that specifically prohibit or limit foreign ownership of agricultural land within the boundaries of their state, the federal government only monitors certain foreign acquisitions and landholdings in agricultural land through the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) of 1978.

2013

Scientific American

JULY 22, 2025

systems that exist today, let alone more powerful ones,” wrote New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose in March, “and that there is no realistic plan at any level of government to mitigate the risks or capture the benefits of these systems.” ” He’s right.

Precautionary Principle

New Scientist

JULY 23, 2025

The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out Photo12/7e Art/Aardman Animations/Alamy We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot ? A laundry robot ? A kickboxing robot ? A space robot ? We’ve got you covered.

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. They connect multiple EV batteries together, along with battery monitoring and cooling technology, to create a larger battery that is about the size of a shipping container.

Recycling

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

Instead of supporting viable and more cost-effective clean technologies like heat pumps, Ontario is spending more than $234 million to support approximately 8750 connections – a subsidy of over $26,000 per customer. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel and was responsible in 2018 for the biggest spike in carbon emissions Ontario has seen in decades.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. Also, fortunately, the fibers and epoxies needed to make these strong synthetic materials are widely available.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. Technologies like biofuels and hydrogen, while necessary, come with potential drawbacks. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. Governments and developers should work to educate the public about the safety mechanisms incorporated into battery storage systems. Battery storage is a relatively new, rapidly developing technology.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

2007

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

For example, Broward County, Florida’s 2018 paper ballots didn’t clearly differentiate between voting instructions and contests when instructions and a senatorial contest were listed in a single column, resulting in a nine percent difference in votes for that race in Broward compared to the rest of the state’s counties.

2004

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Lower Sesan 2 Dam, which came online in 2018, is Cambodia’s largest hydroelectric dam. However, since it came online in late 2018, the dam has underperformed economically, in large part because of a drought that has gripped the region during consecutive years and stymied water flow. © Wonders of the Mekong. © Wonders of the Mekong.

2012

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For much of her career she taught an International Baccalaureate course in information technology, business, and math to high schoolers, some of whom are now friends. . Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Government pays all or a share of the cost of implementing the practices.

2020

Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

At the entrance to the quantum physics and information lab at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the country’s premier quantum research centre , visitors are greeted by a message in Chinese: “When I look back on my life, there were many hardships. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally. Great power rivalry.

Technology

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2025

Nearly a decade since a coalition of tribes, governments, nonprofits and businesses hatched an ambitious plan to bring back a native fish thats been absent from Michigan for nearly a century, the moment of truth is nigh. The fish basically just took off, and they were never really seen again, Martell said.

2029

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production. Our modern technological world wouldn’t function without rare earth elements. 12 of the rare earth elements are used in laser technology. It is used to make luminous paint.

Recycling

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. Have technological capabilities to observe forest activity also increased? percent compared to last August.

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. Despite the risks, governments and researchers seem far more concerned than citizens. Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. Picture credit: Jeeban Panthi.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. As environmental degradation and climate change intensify, society increasingly turns to digital technologies to live more sustainably and protect biodiversity and other natural resources, such as land, water, and energy.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

In the last week, the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh and Brandie Jefferson from the University of Pittsburgh published articles saying oil and gas wastewater can be a major source of lithium for rechargeable battery production. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. The designation means the U.S.

Technology