Yale E360
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Amid a rising tide of nationalism, walls and fortified fences are proliferating around the world. These barriers pose a growing threat to wildlife — blocking animal migrations and threatening millions of species that will need to move to keep up with a changing climate. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The 27 th Conference of the Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate conference, is in its final days. While negotiators work behind closed doors and civil society advocates raise their voices in the halls and courtyards, there has been a flood of disinformation online that has distorted how the outside world sees the conference. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person.
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Environment + Energy Leader
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Salesforce has a PPA with the Blue Grass Solar Farm, the company's first international energy deal. The post 200 MW Australian Solar Farm Avoids Two Times the Emissions of Comparable CA Site appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The next phase of climate research is to understand whether meteorological disruption will not only force people out of their homes, but also compel them to move. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Brazil’s new president reiterates pledge to protect the Amazon and enact climate policy. Scientists urge the World Health Organization to revise draft guidelines for two PFAS chemicals in drinking water.
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.
Environment + Energy Leader
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Equinor and bp recently announced the creation of the Offshore Wind Ecosystem Fund, a $5 million clean energy community grant program designed to support sustainable growth, workforce development, empowerment of underserved communities, and climate justice in New York City’s emerging offshore wind ecosystem. The post $5 Million Offshore Wind Ecosystem Fund Announced appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Earth 911
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
For some people, IKEA is synonymous with difficult-to-assemble but affordable furniture. For others, the global. The post IKEA Starts Selling Solar Panels appeared first on Earth911.
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Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
More than 15 “Hands Off The Greenbelt” and “Stop Bill 23” rallies across the province. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Over the past few weeks, the provincial government announced Bill 23 (“More Homes Built Faster Act”), the rollback of forward-thinking municipal plans in Halton and Hamilton, and the removal of 7,400 acres of protected land from the Greenbelt to build sprawl. .
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmospheric pressure can do it too if combined with certain conditions on the ground
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer. Image: Shutterstock.com. Researchers using NASA’s Earth observing system find that Antarctic sea ice allows enough light in to let hidden phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean. Until now, we thought the packed sea ice of the Southern Ocean blocked all light from reaching the sea beneath, preventing phytoplankton — tiny algae which are the base of aquatic food webs — from growing there.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
This new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawton explains in this personal account, we are finally starting to make inroads
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
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn’t going to places without energy.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
New prefixes in the International System of Units have been confirmed, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta for very large numbers, like the amount of data on internet servers
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Four Egyptian researchers spoke about how they’re contributing to the fight against climate change as their country hosts the COP27 global climate summit.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Writers and film makers are always using the multiverse as fuel for their plots, but Nathan Tavares gives it a new twist in A Fractured Infinity, a sci-fi novel about growing up, finds Sally Adee
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.
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Nomad Studio has created an out-of-this-world forest installation that floats 1,200 trees on the top of an inverted dome.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Why talk and behaviour-based interventions that don’t use any drugs, as well as genetic therapy and bacterial toxins, are promising new weapons in our fight against pain
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
What hosts 60,000 guests, costs $7.9 billion dollars and is shaped like a turtle? It’s Pangeos, a terayacht that could become the largest floating structure the world has ever seen.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to reverse the environmentally damaging policies of his predecessor in a speech at the UN climate meeting
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Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Read the full story from the Washington Post. Food waste is a year-round concern. Still, the large Thanksgiving meal presents a particular challenge when it comes to preventing it. You’re buying many more ingredients. You’re making large-scale recipes, with lots of potential leftovers. You may just be even more preoccupied with everything else going on around you.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Photographer Luigi Avantaggiato has documented the ways in which an Italian community has harnessed the geothermal energy in its area, in his project The Cloud Factory
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Evidence is building that fumes from gas stoves can aggravate lung ailments.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root causes of our pain, and why physical and emotional pain so often coexist
JANZEN AG
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
At the recent American Ag Law Association conference, I presented on a panel on how grain trading is moving from paper to digital contracting at all points in the supply chain. This post is a summary of that presentation. The United States has the most efficient grain marketing infrastructure of anywhere in the world. A farmer harvesting corn in the Midwest only has short distance to truck grain from the field to a local elevator.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
With a growing number of people living with pain, we desperately need to understand it – but we are still unravelling the mysterious mechanisms behind the phenomenon
National Law Center
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: November 16, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that contain M1 chips may be able to do the same job for less
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ÉQUITERRE. Study reveals automakers use ‘greedflation’ to capture value of electric vehicle purchase incentives to boost profits and subsidize sale of gasoline cars. Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today, Environmental Defence and Équiterre released a new report titled Profiting from Pollution: How the auto industry is fighting against clean car regulations.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users’ data on these machines
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
One of the contributors to climate change is the urban heat island effect, which impacts thermal conditions in cities.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Advances in neuroimaging, AI and wearable tech are helping to overcome the problems we face in having to communicate our pain on a subjective scale of 1 to 10
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
If you’re looking for a unique gift for the epicurean or brewmaster hopeful in your life, look no further than FarmSteady and Brooklyn Brew Shop, two sister companies based in New York.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Doctors are starting to see chronic pain as a condition in its own right, which is leading to new and more effective treatment options
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The Pittsburgh-based Group Against Smog and Pollution will host a December 14 webinar on Making the Connection - What the Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Use 74 Years Later starting at 6:30 p.m. The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 in Washington County is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history. That weekend of horrific air quality killed 20 people and sickened thousands more, but it also galvanized residents to take environmental action - a movement that culminated in the c
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