Real Climate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As many of you will know, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh died on Oct 12, 2021, and in the last week a number of very touching tributes have appeared. Notably, a lovely obituary in the NY Tim es by Henry Fountain, a segment on the BBC’s Inside Science from Roland Pease, a piece on Bloomberg News by Eric Roston and, of course, an appreciation from his colleagues at World Weather Attribution (including Friederike Otto, the co-recipient of the TIME 100 award to Geert earlier this year).

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Tiny bits of plastic are swirling in the sky, and a new model suggests they could be subtly affecting the climate. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Without the Clean Electricity Performance Program, it will be harder to meet the nation's climate targets, but it can be done.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 22, 2021

YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. An effort to save a threatened salmon species in California could also revive a way of life for local Native American tribes. A major hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River is threatening electricity supplies in Brazil and Paraguay. Egypt will fund nearly 20 desalination plants in the next five years as part of an effort to diversify its water sources.

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In the global fight against COVID-19, around 6.8 billion vaccine doses have been administered across the world, a figure that is likely to rise as more doses become available and with many countries now recommending booster jabs. As often in times of health crises, new medical technologies have emerged, driven by the sense of urgency and extra funding, that address difficulties of existing methods and could change healthcare paradigms for years to come.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A protest by a group of scientists has ignited spirited discussions about the persistent lack of diversity in such awards. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Researchers, practitioners and patients must balance the discipline’s promise with its reality. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Female academics submitted fewer papers than their male counterparts during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the main conclusion of a study by researchers in Europe, which found that while overall submissions increased by around a third in those early months of the pandemic, the productivity of female scientists was lower than expected.

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Rain Catcher is a 3D-printed house that's off-the-grid and designed specifically to meet Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2030 Climate Challenge criteria for electric, heating and water consumption. This eco-house is truly made to harness all the power of nature.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

by Tatsuya Amano (The University of Queensland) English is considered the language of international science. But our new research reveals how important scientific knowledge in other languages is going untapped. This oversight squanders opportunities to help improve the plight of the one million species facing extinction.

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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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National Law Center

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Class. The post Ag & Food Law Daily Update: October 22, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Frontiers is pleased to announce that Dr Nina Hall will lead the organization’s commitments to the United Nations SDG Publishers Compact , which it signed up to at the end of last year. Having worked with Frontiers since 2013, Dr. Hall brings considerable strategic experience to the position. Nina has an academic background in marine biology and deep-sea biodiversity, taxonomy and ecology, as well as experience of environmental management, and science communications and policy.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In the 1960s the Norwegian archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad along with her explorer husband Helge Ingstad discovered the remains of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, which is on the northern tip of Newfoundland in Canada. The Vikings appeared to have been there about 1000 years ago, shattering the idea that Christopher Columbus and crew were the first Europeans to arrive in North America in 1492.

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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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Scientific American

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental Leader

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The commercial and industrial sector is a growing area of microgrid use as technology and uses advance. The post C&I Microgrid Implementation, Innovation Continues to Expand appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The technology used to create deepfake videos has been applied to fashion models, and can put them in a pose they never actually stood in

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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for light-emitting diodes (LEDs), but they tend to clump together – an instability that destroys their light-absorbing and light-emitting properties. Researchers in the US have now succeeded in stabilizing these materials in porous structures known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The resulting films, which can be fabricated at room temperature, could have applications in consumer electronics and medical imaging as well as photovoltaic devices.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is slowly migrating away from the planet, which is tilting Saturn onto its side and may eventually doom the moon to orbital chaos

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Greenpeace investigative team announced this week that oil, coal, beef and animal feed producing countries have been lobbying to tone down a major United Nations climate report.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Children who would normally have died because they lack an important immune organ can now survive thanks to a special thigh implant that produces immune cells

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Earth 911

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As more of us order products to be delivered to our homes, we should be. The post Electric Fleets: Improving Efficiency, Sustainability appeared first on Earth911.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The dimmest supernova ever spotted is at least 100 times fainter than a normal explosion of its type, and astronomers aren’t sure why

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Environmental Leader

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The commercial and industrial sector is a growing area of microgrid use as technology and uses advance. The post C&I Microgrid Implementation, Innovation Continues to Expand appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Freeze-dried genetic circuits could reveal the presence of SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, MRSA, and more. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Read the full story at Food Processing. Joining the Food For Thought podcast this week is Pulp Pantry’s Kaitlin Mogentale here to talk about the upcycling food movement and how the process of taking one company’s food waste can turn into another company’s product gold.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Apple TV’s Invasion follows various characters as they pick up on hints of alien activity.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Read the full story from WNIJ. The discovery of a foraging rusty patched bumble bee stalled construction on an expansion project at the Chicago Rockford International Airport — but only for a while. Environmental advocates want the delay to be permanent.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission public hearing November 4 on proposed water withdrawal projects, proposed fee change to encourage use of acid mine drainage impacted waters and a letter of understanding between SRBC and DEP. ( formal notice ) Here are the available handouts- -- Policy To Encourage Withdrawal & Consumptive Use Of Acid Mine Drainage Impacted Waters and Treated Wastewater : This policy will offer fee and timing review incentives for applications associated with the withdr

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Read the full story at Fast Company. Thirty-five years ago, four words from Stevie Ray Vaughn mobilized an entire state to clean up its act. Now we need a simple, powerful climate crisis message to mobilize the masses.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The ocean has absorbed nearly 33% of all greenhouse gas emissions and around 90% of the excess heat produced through climate change. It may seem like a good thing all around that the ocean is protecting us in this way, but the ocean actually pays a hefty price. If you’re not on the water or near the coast, much of this price may go unnoticed until there are disasters like stronger hurricanes, more intense flooding, coastal erosion or harmful algal blooms.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Read the full story from the University of Cape Town. Climate change literacy is essential to help Africans understand and effectively respond to climate change and adapt to its catastrophic effects. This is according to Dr Nicholas Simpson, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI).

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Building Transparency, a nonprofit dedicated to driving awareness around the effects of embodied emissions and supporting action to limit them, has developed a free tool anyone can use to achieve carbon reduction goals.

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