Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Mah Meri village © Tian Yake / Flickr Creative Commons. In Malaysia, a proposed beach resort dubbed a “world-class eco-city” is threatening to evict Mah Meri families from one of their oldest coastal towns, what is today known as Bagan Lalang. The notices arrived in late April, and gave families 30 days to move out, Mongabay reports. The timing coincided with the state giving a lease for the land to Sepang GoldCoast resort.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2021

Disinformation campaigns are not random rumors that catch on by happenstance. They are coordinated, funded, and organized--and spring from an infamous memo published 50 years ago today.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Circle of Blue · What’s Up WIth Water – 8.23.21. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rise to power does not bode well for a water sector that is already troubled. That’s according to an international group of scholars. Over 70 percent of Afghanistan’s people are without access to clean drinking water, and most of the country experiences water stress.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Suppose we bring climate change under control and deal with its fallout. What will have we achieved? We will have prevented great harm. That, of course, is the main goal. Untamed climate change means an dangerous, ugly future for all of us on “Spaceship Earth.” Preventing that future is surely enough of a reason to dedicate ourselves to the effort. I’m asking about something different, however: how will the world be better off than it would have been if climate change had never been a problem?

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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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Physics World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Noise from wind farms may be more bothersome at night than it is during the day – and not only for the reasons you might expect. While it’s true that competing sources of background noise (such as traffic) tend to die down at night, and people are more likely to notice sounds when they’re trying to fall asleep, scientists in Australia have found that physics as well as psychology plays a role in wind-farm-induced sleep disturbances.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. (It’s worth noting that due to a lack of transparency and public reporting, this number is likely a large underestimate of total support.).

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Eco Justice

AUGUST 23, 2021

A quick visit to the Teal-Jones Group website will show you much of what you need to know about how consumers are being misled into believing that the wood products. Read more. The post ‘Sustainable’ logging in old-growth forests: Consumers are being misled appeared first on Ecojustice.

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Cool Green Science

AUGUST 23, 2021

Research shows that, for northern paper wasps, it pays to recognize your neighbor. The post Wait. Northern Paper Wasps Recognize Each Other’s Faces? appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 23, 2021

These novel missiles cannot live up to the grand promises made on their behalf, aerodynamics shows. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 23, 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 23, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

A new report by Brazilian research institute Imazon shows that the Amazon forest has experienced the highest level of annual deforestation in a decade. Despite global calls for action, poor policies championed by President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil have contributed to increased deforestation.

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Environmental Law Centre

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change August 9, 2021 Press Release The impacts of climate change are becoming. The post Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

On Greenland’s highest summit, snow is the norm. But on the weekend of August 14-15, it rained. A lot. Seven billion tons of water hit the ice sheet for the heaviest rainfall since researchers started keeping records in 1950.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 23, 2021

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

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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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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a result of the Our Energy Our Landscape design challenge, Dutch design studio VenhoevenCS, landscape architecture agency DS Landschapsarchitecten and solar energy firm Studio Solarix have developed the Butterfly Effect, a concept design that can produce energy and a safe route for insects.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 23, 2021

Photo credit: IOM / Muse Mohammed. By Anders Lorenzen. The crisis in Afghanistan reached a new peak this month when the US officially withdrew its forces from the country. The situation in the landlocked country, which has been the centre of various geo-political battles in recent times, became severely unstable. The extremist terrorist group the Taliban soon marched forward to claim city after city and region after region with rapid speed, the President fled the country and before long the Tali

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

In a published decision filed August 17, 2021, the Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment directing issuance of a writ of mandate ordering Inyo County to vacate three resolutions of necessity that authorized its condemnation of three Owens Valley landfill properties, including appurtenant water rights, owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

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Scientific American

AUGUST 23, 2021

Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

In a published opinion filed August 19, 2021, the Second District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment of the Los Angeles County Superior Court that found fault with the EIR for an improvement project within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument portion of the Angeles National Forest. Save Our Access – San Gabriel Mountains v. Watershed Conservation Authority (2021) Cal.App.5th.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 23, 2021

Putting a price on emissions and sending the proceeds to the public is a sound environmental and economic strategy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

Even companies with good intentions when it comes to monitoring materials and manufacturing may be contributing to the problem more than they think. Higg is a technological solution to this problem that addresses the issue by providing a score for a product’s impact.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 23, 2021

Tropical cyclones are wandering farther north and maintaining high intensity. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Read the full story from the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The fact that microplastics can accumulate organic pollutants from the environment and transport them has been known for some time. What is new, however, is that metals can also be transported in this manner.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 23, 2021

Tropical cyclones are wandering further north and maintaining high intensity. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Read the full story at Independent.ie. Members of an environmental group are trying to establish the source of ‘retro rubbish’, some of it dating from the 1970s, that has washed up along the north Dublin coast.

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Nanotech

AUGUST 23, 2021

ASTM recently announced that it published a standard, E3275 , that seeks to familiarize laboratory scientists with background information and technical content necessary to image and identify engineered nanomaterials in cellular and noncellular samples. According to ASTM, the standard is specific to the use of the darkfield microscopy/hyperspectral imaging analysis technique.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Download the document. Community choice aggregators (CCAs) are local government entities that competitively procure electric generation service on behalf of their residents as an alternative to the incumbent utility.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

It's about more than fun and flowers. The International Garden Festival draws attention to freedom, confinement and our undeniable connection with nature.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Download the document. Business Futures is Accenture’s structured approach to identify Signals of business change that are most critical for organizations to understand in order to shape successful futures. We highlight the Signals that are reshaping organizations globally and will be critically important as these organizations reinvent for a profoundly different tomorrow.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 23, 2021

NEW YORK, NY, August 23, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Christopher Willott has joined the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice , resident in New York. Derek Stoldt, co-chair of the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice, said: “Chris brings sophisticated lending and project finance experience that will complement our existing strengths and help our clients with infrastructure and project finance opportunities nationally and in the Latin American mark

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Read the full story from the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Press has been taking steps to develop a publishing program that aligns with our mission and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. This is why the Press is transitioning to an open access monograph model we term “Fund to Mission.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- The August 23 PA Environment Digest is now available. -- 34 New Stories - Real Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- MCall: Flood Warning Issued For Lehigh River At Walnutport -- ScrantonT: Flash Flood Watch For Parts Of NE PA -- WilliamsportS: Residents Cut Off, One Route Into Leonard Harrison State Park Clos

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 23, 2021

Download the document. Fundamental research is where innovation begins. It is the foundation of all scientific progress — the pursuit of original, first-level knowledge that catalyzes advancements in science, technology, medicine, energy, and national security.

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