Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how successive U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rebecca Boehm, an economist with the UCS Food and Environment Program, looked at Arkansas and the biggest poultry producer in the state, Tyson Foods, as a case study and published her findings in August in conjunction with a Guardian investigative story. I recently spoke with Dr. Boehm about her report.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Brian Leiter at Chicago is once again doing his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in the United States in a range of substantive areas. As I did the last time Leiter posted these totals, I thought it might be helpful to our readers to have a list that is focused on US scholars who work substantially or primarily on environmental and energy law.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A fishing community along the Sesan River in northeastern Cambodia. The construction of a giant dam has flooded large parts of the surrounding area. © Wonders of the Mekong. The rivers are an ecological bounty in the Mekong watershed. But technical reviews pay little attention to environmental costs of dam building. By Stefan Lovgren – September 15, 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This groundbreaking report is important for three main reasons: impact, scale, and attribution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

What incentives can you get next year for buying an EV?

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Co-author Marcus Fettinger. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, what is required for an employee to be exempt from overtime pay? Ordinarily, it’s a guaranteed minimum salary. As the Department of Labor has explained, being paid on a “salary basis” means an employee regularly receives a predetermined amount of compensation each pay period on a weekly, or less frequent, basis.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise. By Bob Berwyn James Hansen, a climate scientist who shook Washington when he told Congress 33 years ago that human emissions of greenhouse gases were cooking the planet, is now warning that he expects the rate of global warming to double in the next 20 years.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are fascinating devices where layers of organic molecules or polymers carry out light absorption and subsequent transport of energy – the tasks that make a solar cell work. Until now, the efficiency of OSCs has been thought to be constrained by the speed at which energy carriers called excitons move between localized sites in the organic material layer of the device.

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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Stalled recycling rates in England could be lifted through a bin tax, giving people a financial incentive to send less waste to landfill and reducing collections of waste, says an expert group appointed by the UK government

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They’re preparing to pave paradise. Amidst the scenic hills of the Niagara Escarpment in Simcoe County, a municipality is attempting to destroy an area of rare wetlands and old growth forests as part of their plans to sell a major road to a private quarry. For over 10 years, the Township of Clearview has spent millions in an effort to close County Road 91 and pave Sideroad 26/27 as a replacement route – a seasonal dirt road flanked by wetlands and the Nottawasaga Lookout Provincial Nature Reserv

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A survey carried out by New Scientist and King’s College London shows that just one in five Baby Boomers say there is no point in changing their behaviour to tackle climate change because it won't make any difference, compared with a third of Generation Z

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Image credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.com. From fossil evidence and through scientific role-play, researchers reconstruct that Neanderthals probably used fire and tools to dazzle, corral, and catch choughs, communally roosting birds, inside caves at night. The choughs would not only have contributed welcome calories and micronutrients to the Neanderthals’ diet, but may also have yielded elements for their personal decoration.

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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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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Each year between August and October, the ozone over the South Pole is depleted – this year the hole is larger than 75 per cent of the holes that had formed by this point in the season since 1979

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Sep 27-Oct 8. 2021 (free, online)More information and to register The zero emissions movement is expanding rapidly at the local, state, and federal levels, expanding regulatory pressures on food retailers to address refrigerant emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In a major shift in strategy as the Chesapeake region nears its 2025 Bay cleanup deadline, Pennsylvania has switched to an approach that gives the reins and money to counties as they try to reduce large amounts of pollution from agriculture and stormwater runoff. Counties are in the best position to make a difference at the local level, rather than an agency in the state capital, said the state Department of Environmental Protection, which has long overseen t

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

by Nick Shay, (University of Miami) As Hurricane Ida headed into the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists was closely watching a giant, slowly swirling pool of warm water directly ahead in its path. That warm pool, an eddy, was a warning sign. It was around 125 miles (200 kilometers) across.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This month , Jacob Elkin joins the Sabin Center as the 2021-2022 Climate Law Fellow. His work at the Sabin Center will include the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative , the Climate Attribution Database , the Climate Reregulation Tracker, the New York State and City Climate Law Trackers , as well as submitting comment letters on administrative proceedings.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Orcas, also known as killer whales, have been involved in a number of recent incidents with boats around Gibraltar, leaving researchers, sailors and local authorities scrambling to understand why

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Anders Lorenzen. Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. Photo credit: Vattenfall. Kriegers Flak, the largest offshore wind farm in Scandinavia , has been opened by the Swedish energy giant Vattenfall. The wind farm which is located in the Danish waters of the Baltic Sea, 15-40 kilometres off the Danish coast, consists of 72 offshore wind turbines and has a total generating capacity of 604 megawatts (MW).

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A cheap and accurate test that can tell if people have covid-19 antibodies could be used to monitor population immunity from past infections as well as vaccines

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Calls have been made to help scientists in Afghanistan after the country was plunged into chaos in August when the Taliban regime took power in the war-torn country. Universities and other educational institutions have already closed their doors and science education has ground to a halt. Some scientists have even fled abroad, believing themselves to be direct targets of the Taliban.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Stalled recycling rates in England could be lifted through a bin tax, giving people a financial incentive to send less waste to landfill and reducing collections of waste, says an expert group appointed by the UK government

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

by Xiaoming Xu and Atul Jain (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Producing enough food for a growing world population is an urgent global challenge. And it’s complicated by the fact that climate change is warming the Earth and making farming harder in many places.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Reports from some US hospitals have suggested that the delta coronavirus variant is more likely to have severe symptoms in children and hospitalise them, but the evidence for this is limited

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. REGULATORY: FWS. The post Ag & Food Law Daily Update: September 15, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Exomoons are notoriously hard to spot, but it may be easier around free-floating planets that don't orbit stars – and a team of astronomers may have already found one

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Environmental Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Sustainable packaging company DS Smith is investing more than $8.8 million to expand its anaerobic treatment facility to create…. The post DS Smith Invests in Biogas Creation appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We like to think that science can give us definitive answers to our questions, but uncertainty is a crucial part of the scientific process, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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