Yale E360
JANUARY 31, 2024
In cities across the U.S., planners are pushing to eliminate mandates requiring parking spaces in new buildings. The reforms, along with adding street parking meters, reduce car dependency, create public spaces, cut down on heat-island effects, and lower housing costs.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
DNA from bones found in a cave in Germany has been identified as from Homo sapiens, showing that our species endured frigid conditions there as they expanded across the continent
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Real Climate
JANUARY 31, 2024
This month’s open thread for climate topics. This month’s climate highlight will likely be the PACE launch at some point between Feb 6th and Feb 8th, that will hopefully provide information on aerosols and ocean color with more detail than ever before. Fingers crossed! A few notes on the blog and commenting. We have an open thread (this one!
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Four-atom molecules glued together by microwaves have broken the record for being the most complicated molecule to reach temperatures just billionths of a degree away from absolute zero
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.
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 31, 2024
With heat deaths surging in Texas, Arizona and across the nation, researchers model a myriad of heat effects on the human body and focus on the disproportionate impacts suffered by the elderly and people of color. By Victoria St. Martin He noticed the light-headedness first.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Prospectors around the world are scrambling to find reserves of "gold hydrogen", a naturally occurring fuel that burns without producing carbon dioxide. But how much is really out there and how easy is it to tap into?
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New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Nine out of ten people in a trial of a CRISPR treatment for potentially life-threatening inflammatory reactions seem to have been cured
NRDC
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Forest Service has started to formalize protections for our oldest national forests. Now we must ensure the process lives up to its potential.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
The abundance of wild birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and insects has drastically declined over the past 50 years, but the scale and seriousness of this loss is often lost when we focus on the number of species in an area
A Greener Life
JANUARY 31, 2024
By James Arnott and Shannon Stirone Recent research shows that the unfolding crises in climate change and social isolation may actually be connected. The climate crisis isn’t just altering our physical environments. It could even be transforming our minds and how we connect to each other. Many people are experiencing escalating anxiety levels about the potential for extreme weather events and the safety of their homes, property, and livelihoods.
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.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Experiments with a replica suggest that a piece of mammoth ivory with carved holes found in a cave in Germany was used by ancient humans to make ropes
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 31, 2024
On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. DEP said 17 of the wells were used for injection/withdrawal of natural gas and two were observation wells. DEP explained, “The 19 wells have not been utilized for injection or withdrawal since October 28, 2021 as the field was taken out of service for Equitrans to ini
Washington Nature
JANUARY 31, 2024
by Leah Palmer, TNC Writer/Editor The way of connection is revealed by water—snowy summits melting, forging rivers, winding streams and cutting wetlands to spill over a salty edge. “Wherever the river meets the sea, you get this intense mixing of nutrients of fresh and salt water. So, it becomes a hotspot for biodiversity and growth. This is a really critical habitat for chinook, and that’s why we’re restoring it.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Executives from Meta, TikTok and X were questioned by US lawmakers about the safety of children who use their products – experts say the companies need to do more than just provide parental controls
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
JANUARY 31, 2024
As climate change makes the planet hotter, some animals might become more active at night to escape the midday heat
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Officials set up almost 2000 camera traps covering 120,000 square kilometres to estimate the number of snow leopards in India’s mountainous regions
NRDC
JANUARY 31, 2024
Caltrans's I-80 CEQA analysis is flawed and reflects a concerning pattern that must change for California to reach our climate, mobility and equity goals.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
These gorgeously intricate, centuries-old clocks, highlighting the technical expertise of yesteryear, are on show at the Science Museum in London
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Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
Injections of no-longer-used growth hormone derived from cadavers may have “seeded” Alzheimer’s in some people, small study suggests
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Long-lasting hats, jumpers and watch straps that function as smart devices can be made thanks to a cheap and reliable method of creating conductive fibre that can be woven into fabric
NRDC
JANUARY 31, 2024
With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and the loss of critical ecosystems, it is imperative for all countries to reduce their GHG emissions across all sectors. We have at our disposal methods to reduce.
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Excitement is growing over hints Earth has vast reserves of carbon-free natural hydrogen that we could extract and burn to power our economies, but it is way too soon to declare it a climate saviour
Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
An ancient frog, bird and dinosaur wore elusive yellow and orange shades, a new lab technique reveals
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Scientists have mapped the brain circuit behind a form of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, when someone sees themselves or others in distorted proportions, in research that could improve how it is treated
Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
Scientists discover why fathers usually don’t pass on their mitochondria’s genome
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Leading economist Kaushik Basu's new book argues that we can increase our overall happiness by thinking more clearly
Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
A newly released image from the James Webb Space Telescope provides a detailed view of a star’s infancy
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
A wrist-worn heart tracker called WHOOP detected changes in activity during pregnancy that may be linked to premature births
Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
Researchers go to great lengths to prove a tiny bias in coin flipping
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
This is an epic work from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen that explores how a city and its people react to civil control under Nazi occupation and, 80 years on, lockdown against a deadly disease, says Simon Ings
Scientific American
JANUARY 31, 2024
A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis
New Scientist
JANUARY 31, 2024
Feedback remembers the cosmic knowledge of politicians past, as Andrew Griffith, newly appointed as minister of state for science in the UK, mistakes the Sun for Mars
Nanotech
JANUARY 31, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on January 11, 2024, that it is awarding $19 million in grants to U.S. business owners to increase the availability of domestic biofuels in 22 states and provide “cleaner, more affordable fuel options at gas station pumps as part of President Biden’s Bidenomics agenda to lower costs and invest in America.
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