Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2023

Read the full story from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A team has developed a more accurate formula to calculate how much sediment a fluid can push across a granular bed, which could help engineers manage river restoration and coastal erosion.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 5, 2022

Scientists hope for “smart” technology to monitor the Great Lakes. “If Researchers, scientists, and government agencies are hoping to implement “smarter” technologies to monitor the Great Lakes. Few Chinook salmon survive after a summer of warm water in the Sacramento River. Water bill payments will resume in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 26, 2022

In addition, the organisms that live on the reefs can be further used as they can be important for medical research, and can also provide protection from coastal erosion and tsunamis. New technology now means it is easier to study reefs at depths of more than 30m, previously that was very tricky.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Dense seaweed areas may be able to protect other organisms from ocean acidification, can provide oxygen-rich habitats, and can buffer against coastal erosion. Seaweed cultivation may also have climate adaptation and environmental co-benefits. None of these laws expressly prohibit seaweed cultivation in U.S.

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Physics World

AUGUST 8, 2021

The nice thing about this DAS technology is that it’s very, very difficult to get a traditional ocean-bottom seismometer or even hydrophones running in the Arctic environment. They do a lot of work with the oil and gas industry, which uses DAS for microseismic monitoring in wells and was an early adopter of the technology.

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