Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2024

Steve Kress’s smile lit up the dusk as research assistants at least 50 years younger than him regaled him with tales of their vigilance to save tern chicks on Stratton Island, Maine. For an hour, all talk centered around a mortal enemy of tern chicks: the black-crowned night heron. The latter is a beautiful, stocky wetland bird with glowing red eyes and two delicate white plumes shooting out the back of its head.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 8, 2024

A newly identified smartphone vulnerability can reveal the floor plans of where you are and what you are doing - and it is possible that companies or intelligence agencies are already making use of it

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 8, 2024

We were so close to getting a program Ontarians and the environment deserve: an expanded deposit-return program for all beverage containers, including water, pop and juice. Then, out of the blue, Doug Ford pulled the plug, just after Canada Day weekend, leaving beverage companies dumbfounded and big grocery retailers delighted. Send a message to Premier Ford today to tell him to reverse course and implement deposit return for all beverage containers in Ontario Deposit return is the program wher

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New Scientist

AUGUST 8, 2024

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever before, obtaining new clues about the processes that feed oceanic volcanoes and the possible origins of life

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Warming temperatures and increased water vapor are powering more intense downpours, like those associated with Debby. By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg Tropical Storm Debby, a plodding, waterlogged system that has already saturated four southeastern states, bears many characteristics of a warming planet, climate scientists say. It’s reminiscent of other catastrophic tropical cyclones that have battered the United States over the past eight years.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 8, 2024

Commercially available quantum technology could let stock traders coordinate decisions to buy or sell nearly instantaneously using a technique called “quantum telepathy”

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New Scientist

AUGUST 8, 2024

A small study found that the sugar substitute erythritol makes blood more susceptible to clotting, which can raise the risk of heart attack and stroke

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists are exploring living computers

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New Scientist

AUGUST 8, 2024

Researchers in Mexico are using satellite data to find covert graves – these could hold the remains of some of the thousands of people who have gone missing in the country over the past two decades

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The Applied Ecologist

AUGUST 8, 2024

In their latest Policy Direction, authors Fabio Carvalho, Hollie Blaydes and Alona Armstrong highlight key policy implications in relation to solar farm development and operation, and their usage in both addressing climate change and providing ecosystem benefits.

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Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

Researchers wish to probe whether consciousness has a basis in quantum mechanical phenomena

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National Law Center

AUGUST 8, 2024

As of August 2024, three proposals have been released on the 2024 Farm Bill – one in the House of Representatives. The post Farm Bill 2024: Themes in the Proposed Energy and Miscellaneous Titles appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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NRDC

AUGUST 8, 2024

Proposition 4 can tackle ag supply chain emissions with funds for sustainable farming, farmworker wellbeing, healthy food access, and local food infrastructure.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.

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Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

On August 8, Amy Wolfe, Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program Director, announced the lease of a new short film by Brian Cooper called Angling For Hope - A Vision For PA's Beech Creek. "A little over a year ago, with our partners, we relaunched the abandoned mine remediation effort for the Beech Creek watershed in Centre and Clinton counties working in collaboration and with support from our Trout Unlimited volunteers, landowners, Centre and Clinton County Conservation Districts, DCNR Bureau of Fo

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

With the detection of a long-predicted “neutrino fog,” the search for particles of dark matter has entered a new age of both possibility and peril

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

Penn State students, Carnegie Mellon students, Penn State faculty and staff from the Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State, are collaborating to use existing fiber optic cables to predict dangerous geohazards like flooding, landslides and sinkholes, in Pittsburgh. Within the core team of this project is David Himes, registered landscape architect and sustainable communities manager for the Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center — a service of Penn State Outreach.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

Identifying asteroids with potential moons could aid researchers in understanding unique aspects of our solar system

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

On August 8, the state Department of Health announced it will offer free potassium iodide, or KI, tablets on August 22 to Pennsylvanians who live or work within 10 miles of the state’s four active nuclear power plants, as part of routine preventive efforts in case of future emergencies. The DOH hosts an annual distribution event every summer. Chester and Montgomery counties will also hold distributions on August 23 and 24.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

Opioid use disorder treatment needs to take into account evolving cannabis policies, to help give people the best chances of recovery

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the eastern Regal Fritillary butterfly as an endangered species and list the western regal fritillary butterfly as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. The only population of the rare regal fritillary butterfly in the eastern United States at Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 8, 2024

The brain's primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever-changing world

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 8, 2024

For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. 347.563.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

On August 8, Pittsburgh Public Schools , in collaboration with the Wilkinsburg School District , The Efficiency Network , and Green Building Alliance , announced they have been awarded a Phase I, $300,000 Renew America’s Schools Prize from the US Department of Energy. This award sets the stage for potential total funding of $15.3 million to plan and implement critical infrastructure upgrades across 20 schools, including 18 in the City of Pittsburgh and two in the Borough of Wilkinsburg.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for. The post The Feed: Volume 2, Issue 15 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 8, 2024

Read the full story at The Hill. The Biden administration is doling out a second round of funding for energy efficient heating systems, again using its wartime authority in the fight against climate change.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 8, 2024

“Our program provides not only a solid foundation in the basic principles of operating a sustainable farming enterprise, but also a. The post Armed to Farm programs help military veterans, establish connections appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 8, 2024

by Joel Berger, Colorado State University Fatal attractions are a standard movie plotline, but they also occur in nature, with much more serious consequences. As a conservation biologist, I’ve seen them play out in some of Earth’s most remote locations, from the Gobi Desert to the Himalayan Highlands.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 8, 2024

Photo credit: Fervo Energy. By Anders Lorenzen The large US power utility, Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest utilities in the country is to buy geothermal energy from one of the most exciting new technologies to emerge, optimising the use of energy from below the surface of the Earth. The US start-up company, Fervo Energy, is to sell geothermal energy to the utility from its 400 megawatts (MW) Cape Station project which is currently being constructed in southwestern Utah.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 8, 2024

Carbon dioxide utilization can play an important role in the future net-zero emissions economy by providing a sustainable foundation for essential carbon-based products, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) — a climate-warming gas — are released yearly from the burning of … Continue reading New report lays out role for carbon dioxide utilization in U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] Senate Fall Voting Schedule -- September

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 8, 2024

Read the full story at Utility Dive. A sustainability-focused nonprofit, launched Tuesday, aims to bring rigor and accountability to how carbon dioxide is pulled from the atmosphere and help companies verify and better implement their carbon removal policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the United States, it seems that political violence—which can be broadly understood as acts of violence aimed at individuals or property with the intention of affecting or resisting political, social and/or cultural change—is on the rise, with the assassination attempt of Donald Trump in July just the latest example. While the ideals of the United States have always stressed the need for a peaceful democracy, we cannot avoid the fact that this event was by no means a one-off incident.

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