Yale E360
OCTOBER 17, 2023
While Britain has long been a leader in cutting emissions, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is now implementing a stunning reversal of climate-friendly policies, with new plans to “max out” oil production. Business leaders have joined environmentalists in condemning the moves.
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2023
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New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
NASA's Juno spacecraft has swooped close to Jupiter's moon Io, capturing this amazing photo of the surface – and even better ones will come soon
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 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: 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.
Frontiers
OCTOBER 17, 2023
by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com ‘Social loafing’ is a phenomenon which happens when members of a team start to put less effort in because they know others will cover for them. Scientists investigating whether this happens in teams which combine work by robots and humans found that humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and pai
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 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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Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
A glacier under covers, a fish in danger of losing its home and threatened African penguins feature in the best entries to the Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2023
A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed “Pontus” that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists in Borneo
The Applied Ecologist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Feature image © InnoTech Alberta Originally posted and adapted from The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. Author Sydney Toni describes their latest study that explores a more cost-effective way of using remote sensing to better understand landscapes at larger scale for habitat monitoring and management. Ideally, the information we collect to manage wildlife habitat is many things: high-resolution, consistent and covering all areas of interest.
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.
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Generating electricity from the movements of molecules in a fluid could one day power devices like tiny medical implants or household appliances
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Mars is generally thought of as being geologically dead, but a huge marsquake measured by NASA's InSight lander suggests otherwise
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.
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2023
More than half of Miami-Dade County residents will face pressure to move as rising seas push residents inland to reach higher ground, a new study finds
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons during the 21st century, but recent indications suggest Russia, the US and China are preparing to resume tests
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Images from each and every spacecraft now orbiting Mars have ruled out a meteorite strike as the cause of a 4.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the same way up as it started is around 51 per cent
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National Law Center
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On May 31, 2023, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Alabama Property Protection Act (codified under Ala. Code §. The post Spotlighting State Restrictions on Foreign Land Investments: Alabama appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles collected in Madagascar, demonstrating a possible way to monitor endangered wildlife
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On October 17, Energy Vision announced the Dickinson College Farm anaerobic digester was one of three winners of its 17th Annual Leadership Awards recognizing renewable energy projects in the U.S. that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by converting organic waste into sustainable energy. Dickinson College Farm is building one of the smallest, both as a hands-on learning resource for Dickinson students and a replicable model for other small farms nationwide. [ Read more here.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple part of European diets from the Mesolithic until the Middle Ages
Scientific American
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The formation of Pangaea Ultima some 250 million years from now would be bad news for mammalian life.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Growing cannabis can consume astonishingly large amounts of electricity and water, as well as damage ecosystems, but it doesn't have to be that way
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On November 16, Penn State Extension will host a webinar on Agrivoltaics and Large-Scale Solar Facilities from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Join the one-hour webinar to acquire a comprehensive understanding of agrivoltaics and the seamless integration of solar panels into agricultural and farmland operations. Agrivoltaics is a term used to describe co-locating solar panels with farmland and agricultural production.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The PA Resources Council is expanding its Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program through a pilot program starting in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County October 21 to 26. The Traveling Glass Bin Program is part of PRC’s broader glass recycling collaborative, which has provided a free recycling service rotating through a variety of locations in Western Pennsylvania since 2020.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Efforts to expand urban green spaces are undermined by street trees dying prematurely.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On October 17, the Department of Environmental Protection responded this morning to reports of a petroleum-type odor and sheen on the Conodoguinet Creek in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County. DEP responders determined the source of the leak was an underground storage tank at the Cumberland-Perry Area Career and Technical Center on Old Willow Mill Road, Mechanicsburg.
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
This is the first such communication method to be established with people who are not lucid dreamers
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On October 17, the Public Utility Commission announced pipeline engineers from the PUC’s Safety Division are investigating an ongoing incident in Beaver County that has disrupted natural gas service to several thousand residents and businesses served by Columbia Gas. Investigation Overview Late in the afternoon on Sunday, October 15, Columbia Gas notified the Safety Division of an event affecting two natural gas distribution systems in Beaver County – resulting in the interruption of service to
New Scientist
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Snoozing your alarm doesn't make you sleepier, moodier or less cognitively sharp during the day than getting up straight away
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Health insurance giant Cigna has been sued for using a secret computer algorithm to systematically deny thousands of medical reimbursement claims in a matter of seconds, allegedly without a doctor ever opening the patients’ files. The algorithm was first uncovered by investigative reporters at ProPublica and The Capitol Forum.
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