PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

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Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

And in several such states, amendments are starting to appear, which mostly narrow the prohibited aims to just solar radiation management, defined to include injection of stratospheric aerosols that increase atmospheric reflectivity or decrease the intensity of sunlight. Download as PDF

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2025

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2025

Physics World

JULY 14, 2025

One of the key challenges was the high water content of body tissues, because water absorbs terahertz radiation so strongly. The researchers turned this to an advantage by using the water to detect emitted terahertz radiation from the sample, exploiting the fact that the optoacoustic response is temperature dependent.

Radiation

Scientific American

JUNE 11, 2025

But as the sun spins, the roiling plasma generates sunspots, dark, relatively cool patches on the sun’s surface that are looping tangles of magnetic field lines. Ulysses carried a host of instruments designed to study radiation particles, magnetic fields, and more.

Radiation

Physics World

MAY 9, 2025

This background radiation pervades the entire visible universe, and it stems from the moment the universe became cool enough for neutral atoms to form. Other relevant forms of matter include radiation and the so-called inflaton field, which is a type of matter that can cause inflation to occur.

Radiation

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

Thanks to this extra mass, muons radiate less energy than electrons as they travel in circles – meaning that a muon accelerator could, in principle, produce more energetic collisions than a conventional electron machine for a given energy input. Muons are sub-atomic particles similar to electrons, but around 200 times heavier.

Cooling

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

At the same time its surface temperature will drop, so it becomes ruddier, even as it radiates energy 2,400 times stronger than it does now. They cool once again, eventually dropping well below the freezing point of any biologically useful molecule. This transforms the sun into a red giant star.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

As predicted in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald , the stratosphere has been cooling. The dominant factors are changes in CO2 (a cooling), ozone depletion (a cooling), warming from big volcanoes, and oscillations related to the solar cycle. So the net effect is less absorption and more emittence, and thus they give a cooling.

Cooling

Physics World

MARCH 26, 2025

Haze is an efficient absorber of stellar radiation. Therefore, it could absorb radiation high up in the atmosphere, leading to heating of the upper atmosphere and cooling of the lower atmosphere. In our solar system, Titan’s atmosphere also shows thermal inversion due to heating through haze absorption.

Atmosphere

Physics World

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled the design for a fabric that could keep a person warm when worn one way, while cooling them down if worn inside out. However, the other 50% of heat loss at rest occurs via infrared radiation from skin and from the surfaces of clothing. The effect of this is to cool the wearer in warm environments.

Cooling

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

Radiation

Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

According to a preprint on the arXiv server, the team cooled a tardigrade to below 10 mK and then used it as the dielectric in a capacitor that itself was part of a superconducting transmon qubit. Tardigrades are much more resilient than humans when it comes to exposure to ionizing radiation. One of the items is designed for children.

Radiation

Physics World

JULY 2, 2021

Now, an international team of researchers has cooled the interferometers’ large mirrors close to their quantum ground state. By cooling objects massive enough to potentially feel a detectable gravitational force, the researchers hope to open a new window into gravity’s possible effects on quantum mechanics. Very cool”. “I

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

While the IAEA has limited authority over nuclear safety even in peacetime, there are practical steps it could take to help the plant cope with any damage that would disrupt the systems that keep its highly radioactive reactor cores and spent nuclear fuel cool. hours, assuming the vessel remains filled with water.

Cooling

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The observed reduction in surface warming trend over the period 1998 to 2012 as compared to the period 1951 to 2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a reduced trend in radiative forcing and a cooling contribution from natural internal variability, which includes a possible redistribution of heat within the ocean ( medium confidence ).

Sea Level

Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

The mix of warming and cooling effects and different timescales for each, makes calculating the impact hard. a net cooling!). However, this is really just the beginning of what is likely to be a bit of a cottage industry in the next few months relating to possible causes/influences on the extreme temperatures seen in 2023. Barahona, K.

2023

Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

These interactions were thought to lead to alternating decades-long intervals of warming and cooling centered in the extra-tropical North Atlantic that play out on 40-60 year timescales (hence the name). Background.

Cooling

Scientific American

MARCH 11, 2024

As the climate crisis intensifies, experiments to “cool the planet” by reflecting solar radiation proliferate. Without proper global and national regulation, they will worsen the crisis

Radiation

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Warm temperatures prior to the Ordovician glaciation, rises of temperature through the Devonian, a dip through the Carboniferous, peaking again at the beginning of the Triassic, slightly cooler in the Jurassic, peaking again mid-Cretaceous and then (roughly speaking) cooling into the Neogene (and the last 3 million years of ice age cycles).

Sea Level

New Scientist

MARCH 9, 2022

Vital cooling systems for controlling nuclear waste at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant are offline, leading to concerns that radioactive waste might escape

Radiation

New Scientist

MARCH 25, 2022

Infrared images of ostrich necks show that they help the birds keep their heads cool in warm temperatures, lowering their heat stress and helping them reproduce more successfully

Radiation

Physics World

JANUARY 30, 2022

Specifically, we found that photovoltaics can significantly warm the urban environment during the day, but typically cool the urban environment at night. Other studies, particularly modelling studies, had previously suggested a daytime cooling effect of photovoltaics. What research did you include in your study?

Radiation

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This knowledge can help with solar radiation management in marine ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef. As frequency and severity of mass bleaching events are expected to increase in the future, researchers are looking for ways to protect corals from excessive radiation and temperatures.

Cooling

New Scientist

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Radiative cooling means ordinary windows are not very effective at keeping buildings warm or cool as required, but modified windows could help save energy

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

Some SMR designs, such as NuScale, are modified versions of operating water-cooled reactors, while others are radically different designs that use coolants other than water, such as liquid sodium, helium gas, or even molten salts. To date, however, theoretical interest in SMRs has not translated into many actual reactor orders.

Nuclear Power

Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

New calculations of the heating and cooling effects of airborne microplastics reveal that the overall influence on climate is strongly dependent on the distribution of microplastics in the atmosphere – which is currently poorly understood. Altitude matters.

Atmosphere

Physics World

JUNE 18, 2022

BECs form when a gas of bosonic atoms is cooled to ultracold temperatures. In 2013, Schreck and colleagues, then at Austria’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and the University if Innsbruck, created the first BEC by the laser cooling of atoms rather than evaporative cooling. Two-stage process.

Cooling

Physics World

MARCH 31, 2022

Technetium-99m ( 99m Tc) is a metastable radionuclide that emits gamma radiation which can be detected in the body by a medical gamma camera. The biggest obstacle with such extreme exposure is that the target would evaporate within milliseconds if not properly cooled. The target survived five consecutive days of extreme radiation.

Radiation

Physics World

AUGUST 23, 2021

The researchers also found that Psyche has a relatively high thermal inertia compared to other asteroids, yet it radiates approximately 60% less heat than would be expected for an object with such a high inertia. In principle, Psyche’s thermal emissions could offer further clues to its composition.

Radiation

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

estimate of no further CO 2 -induced warming or cooling once global CO 2 emissions reach and stay at next zero. Warming after net zero CO 2 – The third piece of the puzzle is the how much warming is expected to still occur once global CO 2 emissions reach (and remain at) net zero. The AR6 estimate confirms the SR1.5

2018

Physics World

JUNE 16, 2021

The dramatic dimming of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in 2019–20 was caused by a cold spot on the surface of the star causing a nearby gas cloud to cool and condense into obscuring dust, according to new findings. The cool spot therefore could have been produced by an unusually large convective cell. Large convective cell.

Cooling

Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

Radiation therapy plays a vital role in the treatment of more than 50% of all cancer cases. In low- and middle-income countries, much of the population lacks access to radiation therapy. They note that the system’s footprint is similar to a standard CT system, though power and cooling requirements are greater.

Radiation

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Reducing pavement or making it more reflective are strategies more communities must adopt to help cool cities, experts say, and slow global warming. One of the dire challenges with pavement is how much heat it radiates at night. Read the full story at WBUR.

Cooling

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in developing a passive radiative cooling (PRC) material. The material, known as cooling ceramic, has achieved high-performance optical properties for energy-free and refrigerant-free cooling generation. Read the full story from City University of Hong Kong.

Cooling

Physics World

JUNE 8, 2022

In fact, the recipe can be simpler still, for we now know that almost any material can turn glassy if it is cooled from its liquid state so fast that its atoms or molecules are arrested before they have a chance to form a well-ordered solid state. As a liquid cools, it can either harden into a glass, or crystallize. Perfect solution?

Cooling