Circle of Blue
AUGUST 13, 2021
The basin’s big reservoirs have fallen to uncharted territory. The forecast isn’t any better. Lake Mead sits at a record low. Federal officials are expected to declare a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which will require water cuts that fall most heavily on Arizona. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 13, 2021.
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
My top 3 impressions up-front: The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
Center for Science and Democracy Director Andrew Rosenberg summarizes the testimony he and his colleagues provided to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 13, 2021
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Drought in southern Brazil is hindering grain transports in Argentina. In California , residents in Santa Clara County are cutting their water use after an emergency order in June and a LA sewage treatment plant is diverting millions of gallons of clean drinking water after a massive spill into the Santa Monica Bay last month. Heavy rain is causing flooding in Turkey.
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
In early June 2021, following a year of extensive use of chemical weapons (such as tear gas) by law enforcement against racial justice protesters, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittees launched an investigation into the safety of these weapons, requesting internal documents and product information from manufacturers. Despite the well-documented human health impacts of […].
Yale E360
AUGUST 13, 2021
Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next four years, coal and gas-fired power plants must close in the next decade and lifestyle and behavioral changes will be needed to avoid climate breakdown, according to the leaked draft of a report from the world’s leading authority on climate science. Read more on E360 ?.
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Physics World
AUGUST 13, 2021
At his best, Alan Lightman is a wondrous writer: poetic, original, insightful, inspired. In his new book Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings , he ponders the infinitely small and the infinitely large, and the impossibility of understanding each, let alone grasping our place in a universe that pulls us in both directions. He illustrates this at one point with a simple story of taking his two-year-old daughter to the ocean for the first time.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
The Senate has passed the infrastructure bill. Will it go far enough to help us prepare for–and fight–climate change?
National Law Center
AUGUST 13, 2021
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. JUDICIAL: Includes. The post Ag & Food Law Daily Update: August 13, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
The head of the UCS Science Hub for Climate Litigation weighs in on what she's learned so far working at the nexus of the legal system and climate science.
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
AUGUST 13, 2021
The assay could also help evaluate organ transplants and fetal genetic disorders. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
AUGUST 13, 2021
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the US have employed an advanced X-ray spectroscopy technique to study the complex electronic properties of so-called correlated metals for the first time. Their findings could help us better understand quantum materials such as magnets, multiferroics and unconventional superconductors.
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 13, 2021
Coastal regions can brace for more intense, wetter and windier tropical storms in a warming world. By James Bruggers The federal government counts 52 tropical cyclones since 1980 that, with the cost adjusted for inflation, have caused, on average, $20 billion in damages in the United States. There were a record seven so-called “billion dollar” cyclones just last year.
Scientific American
AUGUST 13, 2021
Stretching the mind across time can help us become more responsible planetary stewards and foster empathy across generations. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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
AUGUST 13, 2021
by Ryan P. Smith (University of Virginia) In the U.S., nearly 1 in 8 couples struggles with infertility. Unfortunately, physicians like me who specialize in reproductive medicine are unable to determine the cause of male infertility around 30% to 50% of the time.
Inhabitant
AUGUST 13, 2021
A Great Lakes fish set a new record, and not in a good way. The brown bullhead had 915 particles in its body. This mind-boggling fish was hauled out by researchers in 2015, but their study has just been published in Conservation Biology.
Scientific American
AUGUST 13, 2021
The herbal supplement can be abused, but given the explosion in opioid deaths, eliminating this safer substitute will almost certainly lead to more deaths. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
The Perseverance Mars rover made its first sampling attempt on 6 August but the sample tube came up empty, so NASA scientists are figuring out how to make sure the next try works
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Inhabitant
AUGUST 13, 2021
Architecture is more than creating a sound building. It’s a craft that couples personal style and visual appeal with goals for the space. In the case of the Garden House, a project located in Playa Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, it’s a family home that meets the challenges of immersing into the surrounding landscape while maintaining a low carbon footprint.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 13, 2021
On August 13, the Game Commission announced it is lifting the recommendation to cease feeding birds with decreasing reports of sick and dead wild birds. Much is still unknown about what caused the mortality event documented in Washington D.C. and at least 10 states, including Pennsylvania, since late May. No definitive cause of illness or death has been determined.
Inhabitant
AUGUST 13, 2021
A leaked draft of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that the world must take significant action to stop the climate crisis.
A Greener Life
AUGUST 13, 2021
The Dixie Fire in Caifornia. Photo credit: JOSH EDELSON / AFP. By Anders Lorenzen. Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 13, 2021
By Will Parson, Chesapeake Bay Program Of the many conservation practices that farmers can adopt, planting trees along streams is one of the most effective ways to keep soil in place and advance the recovery of local waters as well as the Chesapeake Bay. But to be effective, fragile saplings have to live long enough to become a forest that shades the water and soaks up nutrient pollution with its roots.
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 13, 2021
by Mathew Barlow, University of Massachusetts Lowell Leer en espanol The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died in the destruction.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
A snake-like robot made of giant screws and flexible joints that can travel across hard or loose surfaces and worm into tiny spaces such as tubes and tunnels may be key to exploring the interior of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus
Physics World
AUGUST 13, 2021
If you happen to come across the phrase “counterfeit consciousness” in a research paper, it just might be a fake – according to an amusing news article in Nature. In it, Holly Else explains why Guillaume Cabanac at France’s University of Toulouse and colleagues believe that fake papers are being created by running plagiarised text through translation software.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
You are more likely to regularly participate in "phubbing", or looking at your phone while in the company of others, if you have anxious or neurotic personality traits
Scientific American
AUGUST 13, 2021
In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
Gut microbes helped ancient dogs eat starch-rich food when farming led to a change in diet for people and their animals, an analysis of 3500-year-old dog faeces reveals
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 13, 2021
Read the full story in Government Executive. A group is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to scrap a directive that prohibits some scientists from discussing their work amongst themselves, saying the current system prevents workers from properly protecting the public from potentially hazardous materials.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
The threshold for eliminating covid-19 in the UK through herd immunity is out of reach, so it’s time to think about how to live with covid-19 as a seasonal disease
Inhabitant
AUGUST 13, 2021
Dedicated to the advanced study, research and documentation of Africa and the African diaspora in the Arab world, the Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates recently commissioned Adjaye Associates to design a new 343,175-square-foot campus.
New Scientist
AUGUST 13, 2021
The threshold for eliminating covid-19 in the UK through herd immunity is out of reach, so it’s time to think about how to live with covid-19 as a seasonal disease
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