Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Future is Green: Amending State Constitutions to Safeguard the Environment for Future Generations By Natalie Schaffer Modern America swings between two futures: one that chants drill, baby, drill and another that preaches reduce, reuse, recycle. For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As the planet warms, Nigerian farmers are looking to breed cattle that can take the heat, importing semen from a Brazilian breed suited to balmy tropical weather.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to X-ray imaging and machine learning

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

On January 17, 2025, the Biden U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an interim final rule with a request for comment that establishes technical guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with agricultural production of biofuel feedstock commodity crops grown in the United States in the context of environmental service markets. 90 Fed.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Alas, we might never know. Opiela v. Railroad Commission of Texas and Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating, was a challenge to the Commission’s authority to issue permits for allocation wells and wells drilled under Production Sharing Agreements. The parties have submitted a Joint Unopposed Motion For Reversal and Remand Pursuant to the Parties’ Settlement , which the Court granted.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Program highlights high costs of inaction. By J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue February 5, 2025 DAVOS After ebbs and flows on the agenda over nearly two decades, freshwater crises and solutions took a top spot in the program during theWorld Economic Forum Annual Meetingin Davos, Switzerland, January 20-24. We face a vicious cycle, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore , told us during the GAEA Awards held in the Forums expansive Congress Centre, while scientist Johan Rockstrm painted a

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago

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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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We Paved Paradise to Put Up with Parking Lots Angie Kaufman At first glance, the American parking lot may seem, well, boring; perhaps its helpful and convenient at best, benign at worst. However, the effects of parking reach far and wide as it drives urban sprawl, housing shortages, inequitable costs, and spatial injustice. Parking takes up nearly one third of the land in United States cities.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings, finds Emily H.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Two-thirds of US cannabis is grown indoors, requiring lights and temperature control that produce a vast amounts of emissions

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Outrage fatigue can wear us downbut we can take care of ourselves in an onslaught of overwhelming news.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Winning images from the 2025 Walk of Water photo competition showcase vanishing frozen landscapes, from sparkling ice caves to melting glaciers

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NRDC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In his first action as Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary, Sean Duffy signed an order to immediately initiate a rulemaking to rescind or replace all existing CAFE standards. The press release then goes on to cherry-pick data to support untrue.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur Emil Radyt is using brain stimulation to explore how things like premenstrual syndrome and period pain impact the brain

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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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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Mar 6, 2025, 1-4 pm CTLearn more and register/pay on the AASHE website. This workshop will bring together representatives from various green labs programs to share strategies for establishing and expanding green labs on university campuses.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Chinese firm threatens the dominance of Silicon Valleys AI elite, and its innovations show the technology could be more affordable and less costly to the environment

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Earth 911

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The past decade brought us the commercial availability of electric vehicles (EVs) and in 2025, The post Your EV Battery: Its Life and Afterlife appeared first on Earth911.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Increasing numbers of people believe Earth has probably been visited by aliens.

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NRDC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Legislators today announced the bills they are sponsoring to protect New Yorkers from exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) through everyday household items such as textiles, dental floss, cleaning products, cookware, childrens products, cosmetics, and menstrual products. The bills.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A group of male koalas were filmed grooming and playing together, in contrast to their solitary reputation, probably as a result of an unusually dense population in southern Victoria

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PBS Nature

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and made surprising discoveries about their behavior.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Barcodes contain a checksum an ingenious use of mathematics that even lends itself to a fun way to surprise your friends, says Katie Steckles

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Inside Climate News has run a number of stories about changes to federal science policy and access to information under the new administration. I’ve already posted several. Below is a round-up of their additional coverage through today.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Feedback digs into the first peer-reviewed paper from the Game of Thrones author, and concludes that he may have picked the wrong fictional universe to analyse

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Read the full story in the New York Times. See also Where to find all those deleted government websites from Lifehacker. More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Mice have neurons that can be controlled to stop them eating - and people probably have them too

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Read the full story at Dairy Reporter. From improving soil health to managing slurry storage, what are some of the key strategies that can drive emissions reductions on farm?

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A driven teenager up nights working on computer schemes. Could this be Bill Gates?

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