Yale E360
MARCH 24, 2022
As wildfires worsen and sea levels rise, a small but growing number of Americans are choosing to move to places such as New England or the Appalachian Mountains that are seen as safe havens from climate change. Researchers say this phenomenon will intensify in the coming decades. Read more on E360 ?.
Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 24, 2022
Restaurant Brands International (RBI), owner of Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, will be banning toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in food packaging globally by 2025. RBI’s announcement follows a multi-year campaign to phase out PFAS from retail food packaging, led by Toxic-Free Future. The post Restaurant Brands International Will Ban Toxic PFAS in Food Packaging Globally by 2025 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 24, 2022
The Russian war in Ukraine is an abominable humanitarian catastrophe, and it poses many risks for the region and the wider world. Among those is the growing risk that the chaos up-ends agriculture on a large scale —affecting markets for oil seeds, wheat, and other cereal grains, as well as fertilizers derived from natural gas, with effects that ripple across the world.
Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 24, 2022
Restaurant Brands International (RBI), owner of Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, will be banning toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in food packaging globally by 2025. RBI’s announcement follows a multi-year campaign to phase out PFAS from retail food packaging, led by Toxic-Free Future. The post Restaurant Brands International Will Ban Toxic PFAS in Food Packaging Globally by 2025 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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
MARCH 24, 2022
Like pay phones, typewriters, and VCRs, a wildfire “season” is a thing of the past. Outside the historical July to October season, we’ve seen wildfires ignite and burn deeper into November, start earlier in the spring, and, in the case of this past winter, we saw Colorado’s Marshall fire burning in December and California’s Colorado fire burning in January.
Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 24, 2022
The 2040 Carbon Neutrality Plan includes yearly goals and detailed strategies for achieving carbon neutrality. The post How LG Innotek Will Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2040 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 24, 2022
The 2040 Carbon Neutrality Plan includes yearly goals and detailed strategies for achieving carbon neutrality. The post How LG Innotek Will Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2040 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Legal Planet
MARCH 24, 2022
EPA recently released a notice of proposed rulemaking for pollution from new heavy-duty vehicles. I was interested to see how environmental justice figured into the analysis, looking for clues about how the Biden Administration plans to make EJ part of decision making. What I found wasn’t very enlightening. Perhaps they’re still trying to come up with the answer themselves, as shown by their request for further comment about the environmental justice implications of the rule.
Physics World
MARCH 24, 2022
Artificial intelligence has potential to improve the operation of many essential tasks in various fields of medicine and biomedicine – from dealing with the massive amount of data generated by medical imaging, to understanding the evolution of cancer in the body, to helping design and optimize patient treatments. At last week’s APS March Meeting , a dedicated focus session examined some of the latest medical applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 24, 2022
ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, SHIFT ACTION FOR PENSION WEALTH AND PLANET HEALTH. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Today marked an important step in the right direction for the advancement of climate related finance, with the the tabeling of Bill S-243 from Independent Senator of Quebec Rosa Galvez in the Senate.
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.
Frontiers
MARCH 24, 2022
The Swiss research community strengthens its commitment to Open Access through a new national publishing agreement with the Lausanne head-quartered open-access publisher Frontiers. Switzerland and Frontiers reach national Open Access agreement (credit: Frontiers). Starting on 1 st March 2022, this one-year pilot supports authors from 18 institutions, including hospitals, who are now able to publish in Frontiers’ broad portfolio of 146 journals, hosted on Frontiers’ award-winning open-science pla
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2022
Read the full story at Grist. Environmental activist Sue Nissen wears a teaspoon on a string around her neck, which she likes to hand out to lawmakers during hearings in the Minnesota state legislature. That’s because one teaspoon of salt is enough to pollute five gallons of water, making it inhospitable for life. Road crews dump more … Continue reading Road salt is imperiling US waterways.
National Law Center
MARCH 24, 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: March 24, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2022
Heat up stalks, stems, leaves or wood in a reactor with little or no oxygen (in a process called pyrolysis) and you get bio-oil for fuel and biochar for fertilizer. There’s always a market and a value for the liquid energy. But efforts to study, develop and market the black powder as a fertilizer weren’t adding … Continue reading Engineers study biochar to fertilize crops, manage manure odors, reduce greenhouse gases.
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.
Physics World
MARCH 24, 2022
The efficiency of some radiation detectors can be boosted by adding nanostructure arrays to scintillator materials. Charles Roques-Carmes and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown how the modifications increase the amount of light emitted by the scintillators by a factor of ten when the materials are exposed to either X-rays or high-energy electrons.
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2022
by Steve Martin, Purdue Research Foundation An educational technology company in Purdue Research Park has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a more inclusive laboratory experience for blind and deaf-blind students to prepare them for careers in STEM fields. Independence Science has received a one-year, $254,767 Phase I grant from the National … Continue reading Independence Science receives NSF grant to develop Braille device for laboratory science students.
Physics World
MARCH 24, 2022
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we talk about the pros and cons of injecting large amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere to offset global warming. Wake Smith of Yale University and Harvard University in the US explains how it could be done and emphasises that this solar geoengineering is not a solution to climate change but rather a “fire extinguisher” that could be used in an emergency.
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
The boa constrictor has developed a way to control air movement in its lungs using ribs in the lower part of its body, so it can breathe while it squeezes the life out of its prey
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Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 24, 2022
Chances are that most ocean lovers are familiar with the iconic marine mammal, the dolphin. But have you ever heard of the spectacular ocean resident known as the dolphin fish ? Despite its shared name, it’s unrelated to the more well-known marine mammal. The dolphinfish is a jaw-droppingly beautiful pelagic (open ocean) fish species that also carries two other nicknames: dorado and mahi mahi (the latter translating to “strong strong” in Hawaiian).
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
Hesitancy around electric cars has shifted from 'range anxiety' to 'charging anxiety', but alongside more charging points there also needs to be a shift in public perception
National Law Center
MARCH 24, 2022
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of. The post Procedures: The First Amendment and Agriculture appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Breezometer
MARCH 24, 2022
We are happy to announce our new partnership with beauty-tech brand, Prose. Prose’s proprietary online consultation will take into consideration BreezoMeter’s data around environmental factors such as exposure to smoke, air pollution and other geo aggressors in a specific location to ensure customers' individual formulations are even more bespoke. Prose is pioneering a new approach to beauty which counters mass production and offers hyper-custom, clean and natural products that are designed to a
Frontiers
MARCH 24, 2022
Frontiers’ volunteers have always been at the forefront of community and societal responses. This week, we talk to fellow Fronton Jennifer Pinnell , journal specialist in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology , about volunteering for Action Tutoring , a British education charity supporting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Credit: Jennifer Pinnell.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 24, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE AND TOXIC-FREE FUTURE’S MIND THE STORE PROGRAM. Restaurant Brands International commits to eliminating PFAS in food packaging by 2025 in all stores worldwide, including Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International (RBI) has announced it will ban toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in food packa
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
It is possible to significantly boost the yield of rice and maize using CRISPR gene editing, trials in farm fields show
Environmental Leader
MARCH 24, 2022
Saint-Gobain continues sustainable facility upgrades by adding heat recovery technology at its Vancouver plant. The post Saint-Gobain Adds Heat Recovery System at Vancouver Plant to Increase Energy Efficiency appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
Astronomers have found waves made up of eddies of plasma inside the sun, and they can’t explain why they are travelling three times faster than similar waves
The Applied Ecologist
MARCH 24, 2022
In their latest research Emma J. Hudgins, Frank H. Koch, Mark J. Ambrose, and Brian Leung, discuss the economic implications of pest-induced tree deaths in the US.
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
Global building sand demand is projected to jump from 3.2 billion tonnes a year in 2020 to 4.6 billion tonnes by 2060, led by countries in Africa and Asia.
Physics World
MARCH 24, 2022
A comic book about teenage scientists joining a secret society with the goal of boosting women in science, and occasionally saving the world, The Curie Society sounds in equal measure brilliant and twee. Thankfully, its large creative team and roster of science advisers mean it’s both highly entertaining and packed with interesting science. Co-creators Heather Einhorn and Adam Staffaroni , along with writer Janet Harvey and artist Sonia Liao , have come up with a world that could easily be our o
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
Tropical forests prevent the climate warming by storing carbon in their trees and cooling air when water evaporates from their leaves
Physics World
MARCH 24, 2022
What are you? Who are you? Where are you going? These are three deceptively simple-sounding questions. But, from the Ship of Theseus to the “hard problem of consciousness”, thousands of years of thinking have shown that they have anything but simple answers. And perhaps nothing could have complicated matters more than the past century of scientific discoveries.
New Scientist
MARCH 24, 2022
Handling soft fruit is challenging for robots, but a machine-learning system was able to conquer the task by imitating how a person does it
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