NRDC
JULY 5, 2023
No fossil fuels, no problem? Texas investments in wind and solar pay off, generating record-breaking renewable power to meet all-time high electricity demand during nearly 10-day heat dome—despite fossil fuel plant failures.
The Applied Ecologist
JULY 5, 2023
At the end of June 2023, Ecological Solutions and Evidence received its first Journal Impact Factor (JIF), and this served as a good moment in the journal’s developmental journey to reflect on what impact our published articles have had in our first three years.
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NRDC
JULY 5, 2023
Celebrated whale researcher, bio-acoustician, and conservation activist combined love of science, music, and the oceans in life-long battle to save the planet.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 5, 2023
In a letter dated June 20, 2023 , a consultant for MarkWest Liberty Midstream re-sent a notification starting a 30 day comment period to the right Robinson Township on the proposed cleanup of a 10,000 gallon natural gas condensate spill in Washington County at the Imperial Natural Gas Compressor Station under DEP’s Act 2 Land Recycling Program. Natural gas condensate is a hydrocarbon liquid stream separated from natural gas and consists of higher-molecular-weight hydrocarbons that exist in the r
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.
Scientific American
JULY 5, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
by Benjamin Cerfontaine, University of Southampton and Susan Gourvenec, University of Southampton Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 turbines must be installed each year until 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5℃.
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Cool Green Science
JULY 5, 2023
This Brazilian frog may pollinate milk fruit trees as it visits flowers to sip nectar. The post Frogs as Pollinators? appeared first on Cool Green Science.
NRDC
JULY 5, 2023
Automakers transitioning their most popular vehicle models from the dirtiest trims to the cleanest trims can help reduce overall fleet emissions.
Scientific American
JULY 5, 2023
Tiny spheres of once-molten metal magnetically dredged from the seafloor could be pieces from IM1, a potential interstellar meteor that struck Earth in 2014
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK
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.
Scientific American
JULY 5, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which may be useful in figuring out information about crime scenes
Scientific American
JULY 5, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Population models suggest there would be even more megafauna in Europe now than 130,000 years ago if it weren't for modern humans
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.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story in the Washington Post. While electric vehicles are essential to reducing carbon emissions, their production can exact a significant human and environmental cost. To run, EVs require six times the mineral input, by weight, of conventional vehicles, excluding steel and aluminum.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Decarbonising steel production is essential if we are to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, but this energy-intensive process has been hard to clean up - until now
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story at Fast Company. In London, beavers have been reintroduced after 400 years. In the Dutch city of Utrecht, the roofs of bus stops are now planted with moss to help support bees.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Advances in rocket technology are exciting, but we need to investigate how non-terrestrial gravity affects astronauts' psychology and cognition, says neuroscientist Elisa Raffaella Ferrè
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Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Watch the video from ReFed. Food waste isn’t just one problem. It’s a lot of individual problems scattered across the supply chain, which makes measuring it notoriously difficult. And yet measurement is critical for any food waste reduction initiative – from knowing where to focus your efforts to determining what the impact is.
Scientific American
JULY 5, 2023
The famous climate pattern could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world's weather
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story and watch the video at Grist. Carbon removal is a catch-all term for anything that people do that pulls CO2 out of the air and stores it somewhere else. To meet the world’s climate goals, we would need to do this on a massive scale — anywhere from 440 billion to … Continue reading Should we pull carbon out of the air with trees, or machines?
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
The world’s first CRISPR therapy may be approved soon, but sadly it is unlikely to be affordable for hundreds of thousands of people whose pain it could end
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story in the New York Times. Rising seas and the ongoing threat of hurricanes and storm surges have forced the Caribbean nation to become a laboratory for climate adaptation.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Sigmund Freud thought we had a superego, an unconscious power that criticised and punished us.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story in the New York Times. Bombarding the power grid has been an essential part of Russia’s invasion, but officials say it would take many more missile strikes to badly damage a wind farm than a power plant.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Tom Ireland's compelling and original book makes a strong case for revisiting phage therapy – the idea of fighting bacterial infections with viruses
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2023
Read the full story at Hakai Magazine. Scientists are searching for new coatings and treatments to make ships even faster and more efficient.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Proofs, the central tenet of mathematics, occasionally have errors in them.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 5, 2023
The times have changed, but car company excuses have stayed the same. From seatbelts, to tailpipe emissions rules, the auto industry has always put their profits before the safety of people and the planet. Each time, Governments have had to step in to tell the auto industry to clean up its act. Now with Canada’s proposed Clean Car Standard , this familiar story is repeating itself again.
A Greener Life
JULY 5, 2023
A woman walks with cold patches on her forehead and neck amid a red alert for heatwave in Beijing, China. Photo credit: Reuters / Tingshu Wang. By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. Measuring 17.01 degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 C.
Frontiers
JULY 5, 2023
Open access publisher Frontiers is participating in the One Sustainable Health for All Forum 2023 co-organized by the One Sustainable Health for All Foundation and the French Development Agency (AFD). The event, which takes place 5-7 July 2023 in Lyon, France, focuses on inclusive and adaptive systems for health and is part of the larger goal to contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Marnie is like any 13-year-old – except she has a severe form of muscular dystrophy.
Brag
JULY 5, 2023
By Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton The July 2023 issue of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Chemical Safety and Biosafety Progress Report includes a summary of the April 2023 meeting of the Party on the Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (WP-HROB). During the meeting, WP-HROB agreed on next steps for preparing several consensus documents: “Environmental Considerations for Risk/Safety Assessment for the Release of Transgenic Pl
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