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Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

Legal Planet

In 1965, scientists sent LBJ a memo mentioning the risks of climate change. Environmentalists would have been more open to thinking about existing zero-carbon power from nuclear. I magine if history had been a little different. How would environmental law look different and how might we be thinking about it differently?

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94 New Articles - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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From Curiosity to a Career: Tigers, Elephants, and Everything In Between

Frontiers

Uma Ramakrishnan is a scientist and academic at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, who specialises in molecular ecology and population genetics. I am a scientist and professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR , in India and I’ve been working here for the last fifteen years or so. “I

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Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. This is made possible in large part by the steep cost declines of wind and solar.

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Spinning brown dwarfs might have reached their speed limit

Physics World

But unlike stars, they do not have enough mass for nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium to occur. As they age, brown dwarfs cool and contract, and their spin rates increase in order to conserve angular momentum. These substellar objects are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars. Bright spots.

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Demons to think with: the rebels you mustn’t ignore

Physics World

Another famous example can be found in Meditations on First Philosophy , a book by the 17th-century French scientist and philosopher René Descartes. Another famous example can be found in Meditations on First Philosophy , a book by the 17th-century French scientist and philosopher René Descartes.

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Glass: a transparent tool for a fairer planet

Physics World

Despite the shift to a digital world and the growing fascination with virtual reality, materials remain the building blocks of our society and culture,” argued glass scientists David Morse and Jeffrey Evenson in that issue. Her love for glass is equalled by her passion for connecting people and promoting gender equality in science.

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