Yale E360
AUGUST 24, 2023
In 2021, the South African government committed to shutting down the country’s captive-lion breeding industry, which provided animals for canned hunts. Among the sticking points slowing progress is what should happen to the thousands of lions that remain on private ranches.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 24, 2023
This “ Danger Season ” (the months of May through October, when the risk posed by extreme weather is highest) has been characterized by record-breaking stretches of extreme heat overlapping with torrential rain and floods. Laboring outdoors on the front lines of the climate crisis, farmworkers face disproportionate impacts from extreme weather: recent research from the National Institutes of Health found agricultural workers are 35 times more likely to die from heat than other worker
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Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
The Applied Ecologist
AUGUST 24, 2023
This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career researchers from around the world working in and around the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation.
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.
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Frontiers
AUGUST 24, 2023
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer One of the ‘tree-reefs’ being examined after five months in the Wadden Sea. Image credit: Jon Dickson Researchers have shown that structures made from culled pear trees sunk into soft-bottomed seas like the Dutch Wadden Sea provide excellent replacements for naturally occurring hard substrates, of which many have been lost due to human activities.
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PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 24, 2023
On August 24, the Department of Environmental Protection announced after a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force that drought watch has been lifted for 47 counties and remains for 20 counties. Drought Watch remains in Adams, Berks, Bucks, Cameron, Chester, Clarion, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Perry, Venango and York counties.
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
Men typically throw objects with a greater velocity than women can – but with a spear-launching tool called an atlatl, men and women’s throwing velocity is indistinguishable
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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.
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 24, 2023
Other Antarctic seabird colonies have also suffered steep population declines as researchers warn that global warming will take a toll on many ice-dependent species in coming decades. By Bob Berwyn As they have for millennia, thousands of emperor penguins arrived at their breeding grounds on the sea ice clinging to the rugged coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in May and June of 2022.
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Language model AIs seem smart because of how they string words together, but in reality, they can’t do anything without many people guiding them every step of the way
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea area suffered a total breeding failure in 2022 as a result of the record shrinking of sea ice
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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.
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
ChatGPT's responses to questions that were put to university students were as good as or better than the human answers in nine out of the 32 subjects tested
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
Some astrophysicists have said that the discovery of the gravitational wave background could shake the foundations of physics – why is it so momentous?
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
The source of the charged plasma that makes up the solar wind has long been debated, but new evidence suggests it could come from a barrage of tiny flares
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear physicist Katharine Way persuaded the world’s greatest physicists to contribute essays to a book opposing nuclear weapons
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
For just the second time, biologists have spotted a gentoo penguin with melanism, a genetic condition that results in unusually dark feathers
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 24, 2023
A special project of WeConservePA collected 15 essays from individuals who made the choice to permanently conserve their land and published it as In Their Own Words. Designed for landowner outreach by land trusts, this beautifully-designed 48-page publication informs landowners of the thinking and actions of people like them making decisions about their land.
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
If bees can spot sugary rewards at a distance, it may mean that we need to re-evaluate experiments that assess their intelligence
NRDC
AUGUST 24, 2023
With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2023
Read the full story from pv magazine. A research group at Arizona State has developed a process to recover lead in its metallic form so that it can be reused in the PV industry.
Scientific American
AUGUST 24, 2023
By treating Earth as a topological insulator—a state of quantum matter—physicists found a powerful explanation for the twisting movements of the planet’s air and seas
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2023
Recently, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) hosted a handful of webinars full of expert testimony on the positive impacts of nature on mental and physical health.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 24, 2023
Three new guides are now available from WeConservePA addressing carbon issues in conservation easements-- -- Addressing Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Conservation Easements : The reality of climate change brought on by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere presents challenges to conservation practitioners. This guide examines how conservation easements may be better planned to deliver good conservation outcomes even as a changing climate affects the physical condit
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2023
Read the full story at Energy News Network. Promoters promise clean energy from hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage, but skeptics question reliance on technology that hasn’t been proven at scale.
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
An analysis of 18 large carbon-offsetting projects has found that most don't significantly reduce deforestation compared with areas not covered by the schemes
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2023
Read the full story from the World Economic Forum. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, and microplastics have been accumulating in the environment for several decades virtually undetected. Both are now commonly detectable in our drinking water, soil and even our bodies.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 24, 2023
On August 23, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced the award of $100,000 to the Schuylkill Headwaters Association to treat mine acid drainage in Schuylkill County. The grant is part of OSMRE’s Watershed Cooperative Agreement Program which provides funds to nonprofit organizations for the construction of acid mine drainage treatment facilities that help restore the health of local streams.
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2023
Read the full story from the University of Texas. A rash of storms in Texas in recent years — from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to the deep freeze in 2021 — has put big chunks of the population in danger and left millions without electricity or water for long periods.
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