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Carlsberg Group Reveals Trial of a New Plant-Based Bottle and Sustainably Brewed Beer

Environment + Energy Leader

Carlsberg Group has today revealed the trial of its new plant-based Fibre Bottle. With a continued focus on evolving technology and sustainable practices, the bottle also contains beer brewed with organic and regenerative barley. The post Carlsberg Group Reveals Trial of a New Plant-Based Bottle and Sustainably Brewed Beer appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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The Start of the Unraveling of Cheap Gas-Fired Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

Note: “gas” in this post refers to what is traditionally called natural gas. For years, gas has been touted as a cheap fuel and a cheap electricity source. Perhaps not as much in today’s world , but historically, this has been the case. But not all gas-fired power plants are the same, and not all gas-fired power plants are as cheap to operate as proponents want us to believe.

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Construction Underway on World’s First Open CO2 Transport and Storage Facility

Environment + Energy Leader

A joint venture between Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies will create “Northern Lights,” the world’s first industrial carbon capture and storage project to develop an open and flexible infrastructure to safely store CO2 from industries across Europe. The post Construction Underway on World’s First Open CO2 Transport and Storage Facility appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Post-Flood Yellowstone Rebuilding Could Cost More Than $1 Billion

Yale E360

Restoring Yellowstone National Park after recent floods washed away bridges and roads could cost more than $1 billion, and the effort could take years given the challenge of making repairs in a protected landscape. Read more on E360 ?.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

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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Bridging the knowledge gap on AI and machine-learning technologies

Physics World

How much is enough? How much is too much? These are questions that cut to the heart of a complex issue currently preoccupying senior medical physicists when it comes to the training and continuing professional development (CPD) of the radiotherapy physics workforce. What’s exercising management and educators specifically is the extent to which the core expertise and domain knowledge of radiotherapy physicists should evolve to reflect – and, in so doing, best support – the relentless progress of

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Chile Adopts New Climate Change Framework Law: A Paradigm Shift

Law Columbia

By Robert Currie Ríos*. On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation.

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Offshore oil expansion is the latest chapter in Canada’s climate hypocrisy

Eco Justice

Canada likes to tout itself as a global climate leader. Just last month, at an international summit hosted by Canada in Stockholm, Sweden, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. Read more. The post Offshore oil expansion is the latest chapter in Canada’s climate hypocrisy appeared first on Ecojustice.

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Deep learning accelerates super-resolution photoacoustic imaging

Physics World

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy: Maximum amplitude projection (MAP) images of the mouse-ear, close-up views of the regions in the green dashed boxes, and cross-sectional B-mode images of the regions shown by the blue dashed lines. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/J Kim et al Light. Sci. Appl. 10.1038/s41377-022-00820-w). Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid technique used to acquire molecular, anatomic and functional information from images ranging in size from microns to millimetres, at depths fro

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Does your ability to stand on one leg predict your risk of dying soon?

New Scientist

Some doctors say health checks for older people should include the “flamingo balance test”, asking people to stand on one leg for 10 seconds – but the connection between balance and health is unclear

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Analysis: Bhutan ramps up its solar ambitions

A Greener Life

A woman installs solar panels on a roof in Bhutan. Photo credit: Asian Development Bank / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Nidup Gyeltshen. Bhutan plans to harness 300 MW of solar energy within the next two years as it seeks to diversify its grid. In the next two years, Bhutan plans to harness 300 megawatts of solar energy, Minister for Economic Affairs Lokhnath Sharma has told The Third Pole.

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

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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The Facemaker review: A powerful portrait of plastic surgery's pioneer

New Scientist

Lindsey Fitzharris's biography of Harold Gillies, who became the world's pre-eminent specialist in plastic surgery during the first world war, depicts a forward-thinking, gifted man

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Women less likely to be included as authors on scientific papers, finds study

Physics World

Female scientists are less likely than men to be authors on papers despite having contributed towards the work. That is according to a new study published today in Nature by researchers in the US, who say that the findings may help to account for differences in the observed output of male and female scientists. It is well documented that fewer female scientists are named on scientific papers than men and have fewer patents than their male counterparts.

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Protein from plant-based 'meat' may be less well absorbed by the body

New Scientist

The protein found in meat alternatives made from wheat and soy may be less well absorbed by the small intestine into the bloodstream than protein from chicken breasts

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Ag and Food Law Daily Update: June 22, 2022

National Law Center

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: June 22, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Striking photos of jellyfish shed light on the enigmatic invertebrates

New Scientist

Photographer Jan Schlegel’s new project, Of Aliens, Mermaids and Medusas, is a celebration of these prehistoric sea creatures, shot at the jellyfish lab in the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa

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Protecting Mexico’s Iconic Salamander Means Saving one of the Country’s Most Important Wetlands

Inside Climate News

Lake Xochimilco’s canals and island farms, on the southern tip of Mexico City, are on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. They are also imperiled by overdevelopment, pollution and climate. By Myriam Vidal In February, a crowd gathered around Mexico City’s Lake Xochimilco to witness the release of endemic salamanders called axolotls, culturally revered amphibians at risk of extinction because of the lake’s pollution.

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Personalised cancer vaccines are finally beating hard to treat tumours

New Scientist

Some cancers are being treated with vaccines tailored to the genetic make-up of an individual’s tumours, a strategy that is looking increasingly hopeful

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A once-in-a-lifetime bird

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at The Verge. Birding saved one man’s life. Maybe it can save the rest of us from climate change?

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Sleep apnoea symptoms in post-menopausal women linked to low oestrogen

New Scientist

Reduced levels of oestrogen and progesterone seem to be what makes post-menopausal women more likely to have symptoms of sleep apnoea, including snoring, irregular breathing or gasping at night

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Research publisher Frontiers at the 10th EuroScience?Open Forum  

Frontiers

Created by EuroScience in 2004, the?EuroScience?Open Forum ( ESOF ) is the largest biennial scientific meeting in Europe, and it will be opening its doors for the 10 th time to the delegates in pursuit of interdisciplinary and intersectional debate on scientific culture, research collaboration, and innovation policy. ESOF routinely brings together over 4,500 leading thinkers, innovators, policy makers, journalists, educations from more than 90 countries to discuss current and future breakthrough

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Breast cancer is more likely to spread during sleep

New Scientist

Tumour cells appear to circulate in the blood more during the night, hinting that therapies should be targeted to maximise their impact at night

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Duke Carbon Offsets Survey

Environmental News Bits

The Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative is collecting information about how higher education institutions with carbon neutrality goals use (or don’t use) carbon offsets. The goal of the survey is to better understand how institutions think about and interact with carbon offsets. Institutions with a carbon neutrality goal are invited to complete the confidential survey by … Continue reading Duke Carbon Offsets Survey.

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China finds - then loses - traces of extraterrestial civilisations

New Scientist

Feedback ponders the disappearance of a report about China’s discovery of possible alien intelligence, and gets ready to text the Squid Facts hotline

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Webinar: Strategies for Implementing a Green Revolving Fund?

Environmental News Bits

Jun 23, 2022, 2 pm CDTRegister here. Competing priorities in primary and secondary school systems mean there is rarely enough money to fund capital building projects which improve efficiency, health and the bottom line. There are ways to overcome this funding barrier. One is a proven model of internal capital financing referred to as a … Continue reading Webinar: Strategies for Implementing a Green Revolving Fund?.

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AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well

New Scientist

Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to create animated films

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Environmental racism and justice

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the National Center for Institutional Diversity. In this Spark series we learn from scholars writing from multiple positionalities: those living in environmental justice communities, scholars based in traditional academic settings working in partnership with environmental justice communities, scholars from environmental justice communities working within traditional academic settings, and those creating innovative local solutions … Continue reading Environmental ra

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Earth's musical heritage finds an icy home next to global seed vault

New Scientist

From work by Indigenous musicians to songs from a sci-art pioneer, the Global Music Vault is open for business as a cultural equivalent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank

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Including all types of emissions shortens timeline to reach Paris Agreement temperature targets

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the University of Washington. Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or, at most, 2 degrees Celsius. As emissions rates gradually begin to decline, countries are looking at how many greenhouse gases can still be emitted while remaining below these temperature … Continue reading Including all types of emissions shortens timeline to reach Paris Agreement temperature targets.

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Megalodon may have been higher up the food chain than any modern shark

New Scientist

Megatooth sharks, including megalodon, seem to have had the highest position in food webs ever occupied by marine predators

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Hospitals use less fossil fuel but energy use hasn’t slipped much

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Environment + Energy Leader. Over the past 25 years, hospitals have decreased fossil fuel use, but electricity use isn’t declining as much. According to a survey by Grumman|Butkus Associates, the average combined Btu/ft2 (electricity plus gas/steam) for participating facilities was 236,743 in this year’s survey, up from 233,491 in 2019.

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Why elite universities like Cambridge must ditch big oil funding

New Scientist

While institutions like Cambridge talk up climate action, they also maintain partnerships with the fossil fuel giants driving climate catastrophe.

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A 50% reduction in emissions by 2030 can be achieved. Here’s how

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. To prevent the worst outcomes from climate change, the U.S. will need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in the next eight years. Scientists from around the nation have developed a blueprint for success.

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Vaccines could usher in a precise and kinder era of cancer treatment

New Scientist

For too long the leading treatments for cancer have been pretty brutal for patients, but personalised vaccines are showing promise for destroying tumours with few side effects

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Former Illinois Superfund site to be reused for solar energy

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Waste Today. A former hazardous waste landfill in Waukegan, Illinois, is getting a second life as a renewable energy facility after decades of mitigation efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Located 42 miles north of Chicago, the Yeoman Creek Landfill has been on the federal Superfund list since its closure in … Continue reading Former Illinois Superfund site to be reused for solar energy.