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Drought’s Spillover Effect in the American West

Circle of Blue

In a region latticed with pipelines and canals, the consequences of dry conditions in one basin are exported to neighboring watersheds. The Buena Vista Pumping Plant, in southern Kern County, lifts water in the California Aqueduct. Part of the State Water Project, the aqueduct spans hundreds of miles, transferring water from northern watersheds to farms and cities in the south.

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How Russia’s War Is Putting Green Tech Progress in Jeopardy

Yale E360

The European Union relies heavily on Russia to supply nickel and other metals for electric vehicle batteries and other renewable technologies. War-related price increases and shortages of these metals could hinder Europe’s drive to sharply cut emissions by 2030 and beyond. Read more on E360 ?.

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What Danger Season Looks Like in the Midwest

Union of Concerned Scientists

If there’s one region of the country that has been Exhibit A this year for summer-turned- Danger Season , it’s the Midwest. The warm season began with an incredibly unseasonable heatwave , smashing records left and right. And now, the Midwest is currently playing whack-a-mole with weather and climate hazards. Here in Madison, Wisconsin, we’ve been under an intense heatwave that rolled into the area on Monday, announcing its arrival with severe thunderstorms that downed power lines across the are

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South Korea and Climate Change

Legal Planet

Little known fact: The ninth largest carbon emitter in the world is South Korea. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? That answer, in brief, is that it has adopted the right kinds of policies, but may need to up its level of ambition. Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. and Australia. Here’s some background on the country for those whose knowledge mostly derives from watching reruns of MASH.

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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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Lingering Climate Injustice in Bowling Green, KY

Union of Concerned Scientists

Francisco Serrano lost his childhood home in December. He recalls the moment when “dark, soulless skies spawned a demon-like tornado” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that changed life as he knew it. More than six months have gone by since record-breaking tornadoes tore through western Kentucky the evening of December 10th into the early morning of the 11th.

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Net-Zero Business Success Requires Stated Strategy, Says Report

Environment + Energy Leader

A tool for businesses can provide a framework for net-zero transitions and successes. The post Net-Zero Business Success Requires Stated Strategy, Says Report appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Guitarfish Rock–Here’s Why

Ocean Conservancy

Here at Ocean Conservancy, we think that all marine wildlife rock. But there’s one animal in particular that I’ve been a superfan of ever since I laid eyes on it: the guitarfish. The name “guitarfish” applies to all rays in the family Rhinobatidae, which is a combination of Latin and Greek words for “nose” and “ray”. Although these rays do look similar to stereotypical rays, they swim with their tails like sharks instead of flapping their fins to move like other rays.

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Karuk traditional ecological knowledge enhances elk habitat in Northern California

The Applied Ecologist

In their new article, Connor et al. discuss how prescribed forest burning that uses Karuk traditional ecological knowledge can have significant benefits for elk habitat. In a Northern California landscape increasingly plagued by severe wildfire, cultural burning, prescribed fire and forest management principles put into practice for generations by Karuk Tribal members are being brought back to restore fire adapted landscapes.

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Seeking the warm glow of the Unruh effect, reconfigurable hardware drives innovation in test and measurement

Physics World

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast the physicist and entrepreneur Daniel Shaddock explains how building gravitational-wave detectors inspired him to co-found a company that takes a novel approach to creating test and measurement equipment. Shaddock is CEO of Liquid Instruments , and he explains how the firm uses field programmable gate arrays to create instruments that can be reconfigured for a wide range of uses.

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In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change

Inside Climate News

The New England Journal of Medicine kicks off a series of articles Thursday with an examination of the effects of air pollution on children’s health. By Victoria St. Martin For years, research journals devoted to the earth sciences have warned of the dire consequences that could result from global warming and pollution going unchecked.

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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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50 years of UN environmental diplomacy: What’s worked and the trends ahead

Environmental News Bits

by Mihaela Papa, Tufts University In 1972, acid rain was destroying trees. Birds were dying from DDT poisoning, and countries were contending with oil spills, contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the environmental harm of the Vietnam War. Air pollution was crossing borders and harming neighboring countries. At Sweden’s urging, the United Nations brought together … Continue reading 50 years of UN environmental diplomacy: What’s worked and the trends ahead.

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Happy the Elephant Denied Personhood

Endangered Species Law

This week, the New York Court of Appeals rejected a bid for writ of habeas corpus from an unusual petitioner: Happy, a 51-year-old, female Asian elephant, currently living in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. In its 5-2 opinion , the court held that habeas corpus only protects against the unlawful and indefinite imprisonment of human beings , and that Petitioner, the Nonhuman Rights Project, could not use the legal mechanism to bust Happy out of the zoo and into an elephant sanctuary.

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Pride Month 2022: Article collections on health and wellbeing in the LGBT+ community

Frontiers

Pride month 2022’s theme is celebrating 50 years of Pride with a focus on acknowledging the many positive achievements of the LGBT+ movement. We are proud to showcase the top closed and open article collections on improving the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ individuals. Researchers explored topics spanning from transgender pain and queer aging to HIV prevention and sexual health in non-binary adolescents.

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New benchmark set for magnetic monopole searches

Physics World

A new benchmark has been set in the search for hypothetical magnetic monopoles produced in the atmosphere through collisions with incoming cosmic rays. Using simulations, a team led by Volodymyr Takhistov at the University of Tokyo compared data gathered by experiments searching for monopoles with the signals that are expected to be produced by cosmic-ray collisions.

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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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Monumental Trees

Environmental News Bits

At Monumentaltrees.com, thousands of photos, measurements, and location details of often unknown monumental trees can be found of many species, like giant sequoia, oak trees, sweet chestnut trees, and many others. You can upload your own photos or add new trees.

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Enormous impact flash seen lighting up Jupiter’s atmosphere

New Scientist

Astronomers spotted a huge space rock slamming into Jupiter, creating a blast of light and energy equivalent to 2 million tonnes of TNT – the brightest such event since 1994

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Ag and Food Law Daily Update: June 16, 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 16, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Working in virtual reality for a week made people less productive

New Scientist

Volunteers who spent a working week in a virtual-reality environment have reported more anxiety, lower productivity and migraines – which could have big implications for the future of work

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Procedures: Motions

National Law Center

During litigation, it is common for parties to make formal requests by filing documents with the court. These requests are called. The post Procedures: Motions appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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What will the crypto crash mean for 'bitcoin nation' El Salvador?

New Scientist

El Salvador has invested heavily in bitcoin and related infrastructure in a bold plan to build its economy around the cryptocurrency, but now its value has plummeted

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Broken Phone? Don’t Throw It Out; Fix It Yourself

Earth 911

When your phone breaks or just doesn’t work as well as it used to, do. The post Broken Phone? Don’t Throw It Out; Fix It Yourself appeared first on Earth911.

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Children to get CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease in trial

New Scientist

CRISPR gene-editing trials for treating beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease are being extended to include people under the age of 12 after positive results in older people

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Product returns are wasteful for companies and the planet. Here’s how to change that

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Fast Company. Product returns are financially and environmentally costly—but they don’t have to be. Here are 3 ways companies can rethink returns to boost revenues and reduce waste.

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Incredible photos reveal underwater volcanic activity near Sicily

New Scientist

Panarea, a volcanic island near Sicily, Italy, is the site of plenty of underwater volcanic activity – which has now been documented as part of a decade-long photographic exploration of the oceans

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5 best practices for incorporating DEI into your sustainability strategy

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at GreenBiz. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have long been overlooked as integral to sustainability programs. That changed during the COVID-19 crisis, which has shone a brighter light on social inequities and prompted stronger calls for organizations to spearhead positive change. Sustainability started as a way to measure and mitigate … Continue reading 5 best practices for incorporating DEI into your sustainability strategy.

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Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

New Scientist

A group of several hundred polar bears in south-eastern Greenland often catch seals by waiting outside their prey's breathing holes on blocks of floating freshwater ice from glaciers, in an example of the animals adapting to a loss of sea ice driven by climate change

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Climate change is blowing down houses. This could save them

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Fast Company. Winds are becoming more destructive, and most buildings aren’t ready for it. A recent analysis by the Federal Emergency Management Agency found that 38 states in the U.S. have a worryingly low rate of adopting hazard-resistant building codes. In the face of threats like extreme wind, hurricanes, and tornadoes, less … Continue reading Climate change is blowing down houses.

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What is the Hertzbleed computer chip hack and should you be worried?

New Scientist

A new hack called Hertzbleed can read snippets of data from computer chips remotely and could leave cryptography algorithms vulnerable to attack

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Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles: Workshop Report

Environmental News Bits

Download the document. A circular economy (CE) approach aims to extend the life of textile products through reuse and repairand keep end-of-life (EoL) materials in the economy through recycling. Transitioning to a CE is,therefore, essential to reduce pressure on natural resources, create domestic and sustainablegrowth and jobs, and thereby ensure our Nation’s security and economic … Continue reading Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles: Workshop Report.

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Ancient meteorite upends our ideas of how Mars formed

New Scientist

Meteorite analysis hints that early Mars got important volatile elements like hydrogen and oxygen from meteorite collisions rather than a cloud of gases

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P2U Webinar: The Nexus Between Green Business Programs and Pollution Prevention

Environmental News Bits

Jun 28, 2022, 1-2:30 pm CDT Cost: NPPR members – Free; Non-members – $20Register here. Green business programs can help companies achieve pollution prevention goals and increase sustainability initiatives. Learn how green business programs use environmental impact tracking and measurement methods to report P2 improvements. We’ll feature three green business programs and the Green Business … Continue reading P2U Webinar: The Nexus Between Green Business Programs and Pollut

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Global satellite map will help hunt down illegal fishing vessels

New Scientist

Using computer-vision algorithms to crunch through satellite image and shipping location data has revealed areas where ships may be catching seafood illegally

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3 actions the industry can take to decarbonize shipping

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at GreenBiz. Shipping must align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal and be run entirely on net-zero energy sources by 2050. Over 200 signatories to the industry-led Call to Action to decarbonize shipping firmly believe that urgent and equitable decarbonization of the maritime supply chain by 2050 is possible and necessary.

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Online tool predicts impact on your life expectancy from 1800 diseases

New Scientist

A new online atlas can predict how life expectancy is affected by contracting one of 1800 diseases – although the tool may work well only for people in Denmark

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