Yale E360
JULY 20, 2023
The global steel industry is slowly embracing electric-arc furnaces, a cleaner alternative to the blast furnaces typically used to make steel, as detailed in a new report.
Scientific American
JULY 20, 2023
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Washington Nature
JULY 20, 2023
by: Sara Adams, freelance writer Floodplains are some of the most productive landscapes on our planet. They filter excess sediment and nutrients as the water seeps downward, refilling aquifers that supply fertile working lands. They buffer temperature fluctuations and decrease water speed, thereby creating perfect conditions for habitats to bound with biodiversity.
Scientific American
JULY 20, 2023
Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. They were physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. Today we bring you the story of one of them.
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.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 20, 2023
On July 20, 2023, the Marcellus Drilling News reported researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found there was an average 30% discrepancy between what conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling companies said they sent to landfills and the amount of waste reported received by those landfills in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. The analysis included waste shipments to landfills in Pennsylvania by conventional and unconventional shale gas operators between January 2010 to December
Washington Nature
JULY 20, 2023
by Leah Palmer, TNC Writer/Editor In American slang, “O.G.” stands for original gangster. It’s used to refer to legends, the best in the game, people deserving of respect and whose legacy will live beyond them. In forestry, there’s a different kind of “O.G.,” the old growth forest. It’s just as legendary and deserving of our respect. And, yes, locked away in old growth forests are indicators of a rich legacy—a time capsule of growth, decay, fire, water, flora, and fauna all in balance with one a
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New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Commonly recommended ways to boost our mood – which can also include expressing gratitude or spending time in nature – are often based on small, poorly designed studies
Scientific American
JULY 20, 2023
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New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
An analysis of GPS data has revealed a slow and otherwise undetectable slip of tectonic plates that begins two hours before an earthquake - but detecting this in advance would require more accurate sensors
Scientific American
JULY 20, 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.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 20, 2023
The PA Association of Environmental Professionals is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Karl Mason and Walter Lyon Awards. The deadline for submissions is August 31. Each year, the Karl Mason Award is presented to meritorious nominees selected by the PAEP Board of Directors The Walter Lyon Award will be selected in the same manner and has been an annual addition that started in 2014.
Scientific American
JULY 20, 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
JULY 20, 2023
Frontiers journals have adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy ( CRediT ) to improve the way authors’ contributions to research are communicated and acknowledged. The new system replaces the conventional free-text authorship descriptions with a standardized and transparent system that ensures consistency and accuracy in recognizing individual contributions.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Male orcas with a surviving postmenopausal mother have fewer signs of injury than those whose mothers are dead or still reproducing
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.
The Applied Ecologist
JULY 20, 2023
Hugo Sentenac discusses theirs and colleagues’ recent research article which uses data from a fungal pathogen and Darwin’s frogs to assess the magnitude of prevalence bias, as well as illustrate how it can impact disease risk assessment. Infectious diseases: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Certain infectious diseases have wrought havoc in nature.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Two sabretooth cat species that lived 5 million years ago had 10-centimetre-long fangs, which they probably used to hunt prey in forested landscapes like leopards do
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story from the University of Reading. Warmer springs are causing British bees to wake up earlier, a new study has found, threatening the pollination of crops such as apples and pears.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Chemicals containing fluorine that are used in pharmaceuticals, fertilisers and batteries can now be made without the release of toxic hydrogen fluoride gas as part of the process
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Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story from Rhodium Group. If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2°C; however, parties are not on track to deliver these commitments, increasing focus on policy implementation to close the gap between ambition and action.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the results of smashing a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphous
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story at New Atlas. Paracetamol and ibuprofen are among the world’s most common over-the-counter painkillers, but manufacturing them requires crude oil. Now, researchers at the University of Bath have developed a more sustainable method, creating the drugs out of waste products from the paper industry.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story in the Chicago Sun-Times. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory say they want to help South Siders understand why their communities experience perennial flooding as well as climate-related bad air quality and extreme heat.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 20, 2023
Nearly 100 attendees joined the Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation , DEP and other presenters at the PA Solar Energy On Abandoned Mine Lands Summit in State College July 19. Preliminary findings for the anticipated Solar Energy Assessment Report were presented gathered from several regional stakeholder meetings earlier in the year. The presentations will be made available on the Solar Energy Summit website as soon as they are gathered and converted into downloadable PDFs.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Download the publication. After elimination, the widespread uptake of reusable packaging has the highest potential to reduce plastic production. This view is sustained by a recent shift in legislative focus in the European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and the United Nation’s Global Plastic Treaty to end plastic pollution.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 20, 2023
You’ve arrived at stop number four on the journey of plastics in Canada. At our last stop, we took a tour of Chemical Valley in Sarnia, Ontario , where oil is refined and manufactured into the plastic products we use everyday. Today, let’s take a stroll down your local grocery store aisle where many of those plastic products are wrapped around your food.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story from Bangor University. We all discard a huge amount of plastic and other human-made materials into the environment, and these are often picked up by birds. New research has shown that 176 bird species around the world are now known to include a wide range of anthropogenic materials in their nests.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
Mice with obesity have fewer immune cells in their skin that protect against psoriasis-related inflammation, potentially explaining why obesity increases the risk of the condition
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story from WBEZ. Drought, killer dust storms, torrential downpours, flooding and extreme weather. Illinois, the country’s number one producer of soybeans, and number two producer of corn, has seen it all this year. Climate change is severely disrupting agriculture, a $19 billion per year industry that is one of the state’s largest.
New Scientist
JULY 20, 2023
The ability to warm up parts of their body may help basking sharks migrate long distances and overcome drag when they are feeding
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story at Food Engineering. Pregis has partnered with NOVA Chemicals Corp. to co-develop a sustainable packaging solution for food-safe applications used in stand-up pouches (SUPs), fitment pouches and lay-flat bags.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 20, 2023
The PA Recreation and Park Society Maintenance Institute is sponsoring a Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals Sustainable Stormwater BMP Management Workshop in State College on October 6. This course is designed for maintenance crew and crew leaders who have not yet completed CBLP level 1 Training. Topics include routine and nonroutine BMP maintenance tasks, plant ID techniques, best native plants for BMPs, ID and management of invasives, and developing a maintenance plan.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 20, 2023
Read the full story from the University of Illinois. 50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was recovered in recent years.
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