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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

For various reasons I’m motivated to provide an update on my current thinking regarding the slowdown and tipping point of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). I attended a two-day AMOC session at the IUGG Conference the week before last, there’s been interesting new papers, and in the light of that I have been changing my views somewhat.

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Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition

Yale E360

The Menominee tribe of Wisconsin has sustainably harvested its woods for nearly 170 years, providing a model for foresters worldwide. Amid climate change and other threats to the forest, the tribe continues to follow a traditional code: Let the healthy trees keep growing.

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Despite Potential to Electrify 90 Percent of Routes, USPS Still Plans to Deliver Pollution with the Mail

Union of Concerned Scientists

With over 250,000 vehicles in service, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has one the world’s largest truck fleets. Over the past several years, the USPS worked to plan the replacement of its aging delivery truck fleet with a mix of both electric and combustion vehicles. If electric delivery vehicle deployment is maximized, this transition could have significant positive impacts on both air quality and the larger adoption of commercial electric vehicles.

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Why Do Cats Land on Their Feet? Physics Explains

Scientific American

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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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Natural recruitment should be a key goal of tree planting projects

The Applied Ecologist

Anna Gee, a PhD student at Imperial College London, talks us through ways in which we can help to restore forests through natural recruitment in this standalone piece. How do we decide what trees to plant for forest restoration?

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Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here's One's Story

Scientific American

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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How the Four-Color Map Problem Was Finally Solved

Scientific American

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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Psychedelics show promise for treating anorexia in early trials

New Scientist

Small studies suggest that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, may reduce the severity of eating disorders and increase people’s motivation to recover from the condition

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Keystone Trails Assn. Introduces New Trail Academy Series Of Education & Training Events

PA Environment Daily

The Keystone Trails Association’s new Trail Academy series features educational webinars and in-person training events to maintain safer trails, develop wiser hikers, and create happier forests. Events are hosted by Keystone Trails Association (KTA) staff members, outdoor industry leaders, conservation experts, and/or members of KTA. “Our new Trail Academy is an effort to support each individual wherever they are in their hiking journey,” shares Brook Lenker, Executive Director of KTA.

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'Man in the Moon' Older Than Scientists Thought

Scientific American

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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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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Statement on the Government of Canada’s New Policy Ending Subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Industry

Enviromental Defense

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental Defence welcomes the Government of Canada’s new Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies Assessment Framework and Guidelines , which delivers on a longstanding commitment to end inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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July 24 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

The July 24 PA Environment Digest is now available. Click Here To View Or Print The Entire July 24 PA Environment Digest 111 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic Marcellus Drilling News/The Allegheny Front: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Fracking Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In One Year; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream

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City Sewers Can't Handle Climate Change's Intense Rains

Scientific American

A Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis of New York City’s inadequate storm drainage system shows that many urban areas can’t handle more intense rainfall

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Keystone Trails Assn. Hosts Sept. 9 Trail Challenge 25K Run/Hike In The Susquehanna Riverlands Conservation Landscape

PA Environment Daily

The Keystone Trails Association will host their 15th KTA Trail Challenge 25K Run/Hike on Saturday, September 9 within Susquehannock State Park and along the Conestoga Trail. The Keystone Trails Association is a statewide organization committed to providing, protecting, preserving, and promoting hiking trails and hiking opportunities in Pennsylvania.

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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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Are You a Lucid Dreamer?

Scientific American

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their heads.

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Most plant-based milks have less protein and calcium than cow's milk

New Scientist

Plant-based milks made from almonds, oats, rice and soya beans generally contain fewer nutrients than cow's milk

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Consumers don’t understand ‘compostable’ messaging on packaging, survey finds

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Packaging Dive. Consumers struggle to identify and properly dispose of compostable materials, according to a newly released report from BPI and Closed Loop Partners’ Composting Consortium.

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8 healthy habits linked to living decades longer

New Scientist

A study of more than 700,000 people found that adopting eight healthy habits by age 40 could extend life expectancy by more than two decades

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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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SIU leads nationwide NASA project to gather data from sun during 2024 eclipse

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from Southern Illinois University. Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will equip, coordinate and train teams of student eclipse observers across North America, playing a vital role in NASA’s plans to study the rare celestial event in April.

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Earth is coated in ancient space dust that could be from the moon

New Scientist

A 33-million-year-old layer of Earth's crust is laced with helium-3, which is normally only found in space.

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California bill aims to reduce waste by reining in ‘sell by’ dates

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story in the New York Times. California’s residential composting program, which began last year, is an enormous undertaking meant to reduce the amount of trash going into the state’s landfills and the climate-polluting gases the facilities release.

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GPT-4: Is the AI behind ChatGPT getting worse?

New Scientist

The AI that powers ChatGPT appears to be performing less well at mathematical problems than it was just a few months ago

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Agricultural plastic: Pollution from strawberry fields threatens soil health, study warns

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from Food Ingredients First. Researchers have revealed that plastic mulch used to boost strawberry growth leaves behind large amounts of material fragments in the soil. Findings from the study are likely to apply to worldwide plastic use in agricultural production.

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The slippery quest to invent a safer, more effective sunscreen

New Scientist

Concerns over chemical sunscreens harming coral reefs and maybe even our health are inspiring a new generation of sun lotions that would offer greater protection that endures

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CalRecycle names its first packaging EPR advisory board

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Resource Recycling. Leaders from Alameda County, Waste Connections and Talco Plastics are among the group of stakeholders that will oversee California’s extended producer responsibility program for packaging and paper.

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DCED Gives UGI Utilities A $501,136 Grant For A New Natural Gas Pipeline To Serve Little Leaf Greenhouse In Carbon County

PA Environment Daily

On July 24, the Department of Community and Economic Development announced it awarded a $501,136 grant to UGI Utilities to construct a new natural gas pipeline to serve the Little Leaf farms greenhouse in Banks Township, Carbon County. The total project cost of the project is $1,02,272 and UGI Utilities will provide matching funds in the amount of $501,136.

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Ballasted racking from PowerField Energy scales up to utility-scale installation

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at PV Magazine. An idea that began with PowerField Energy co-founders David Flory and Paul Burdick tinkering in a garage is now a growing company scaling up in production, funding and project pipeline. Both Flory and Burdick came from solar backgrounds and aimed to find a simple, low-cost racking solution.

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Why is Twitter becoming X and should you move to Threads or Bluesky?

New Scientist

Elon Musk is once more plunging Twitter into turmoil, this time by changing its very identity

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A multi-billion dollar EPA fund is delivering the energy transition to overlooked communities

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the Rocky Mountain Institute. Community lenders have been diligently finding ways to get capital to communities and businesses neglected by mainstream finance for decades.

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July’s heatwave was made 1000 times more likely by climate change

New Scientist

Climate change made the heatwaves in North America and Europe at least 1000 times more likely and the heatwave in China around 50 times more likely

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Kansas Citians can now drop off food scraps for free at these 4 city composting spots

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the Kansas City Star. Kansas City’s first city-run food waste dropoff program launched on Monday with four dropoff sites at three locations around the city. Each site will accept food scraps and other compostable waste 24 hours a day, and will be free for the public to access.

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Fears of record-breaking El Niño event this year raise climate alarms

New Scientist

We don't yet know how strong the developing El Niño climate pattern will be, but even a weak one risks severe global disruption

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PIRG report urges ban on disposable e-cigarettes to curb waste, battery fire risk

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Waste Dive. Banning disposable e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, is the “only solution” for curbing the plastic and battery waste the devices create, according to a report released Tuesday from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.

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