Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The end of the year can be a fine time for taking stock, and that’s true in the energy space just as in our personal lives. Lots of stories of clean energy progress caught my eye for 2021. Here are five of them–about renewable energy technologies and markets that seem particularly worthy of note and […].
Yale E360
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The Twelve Days of Christmas, which last from December 25 through January 5, have grown warmer in 97 percent of the U.S., according to a new analysis from Climate Central that evaluated temperature trends across 246 locations since 1969. Read more on E360 ?.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Ryan Popple, former CEO and co-founder of electric bus company ProTerra , venture capitalist for transportation electrification, early Tesla employee, Iraq War veteran and father of three, passed away on Wednesday night at the age of 44, for reasons unknown. I had the good fortune to meet Ryan back in 2012, when UC Berkeley Law and UCLA Law convened a group of experts (including Ryan) on ways that California could dramatically scale up the sale of battery electric vehicles by 2025, now just a fe
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 17, 2021
I’m not sure it’s even really news at this point, but earlier this week Ameren Missouri announced that it would close its Rush Island Energy Center generating plant early, rather than spend the money to install flue gas desulfurization technology in response to an injunction issued after the District Court found that the Rush Island facility had violated the Clean Air Act.
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.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
It is often hard to make sense of what happens at the annual climate meetings, and easy to get cynical. For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Acute pressure mounts over the two weeks to get some announcable achievement, which almost always happens after all-night negotiations on the final day. Then things move on.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 17, 2021
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. An ongoing investigation into a Canadian oil and gas company found it has consistently cleared land and used water in northeastern Namibia without acquiring the proper permits. Lead levels in Benton Harbor, Michigan’s water supply are declining after years of high contamination. Water regulators investigate nearly 1000 reports of violations to the Water Management Act in New South Wales.
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Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Tardigrades are tiny organisms that can survive extreme environments including being chilled to near absolute zero. At these temperatures quantum effects such as entanglement become dominant, so perhaps it is not surprising that a team of physicists has used a chilled tardigrade to create an entangled qubit. According to a preprint on the arXiv server, the team cooled a tardigrade to below 10 mK and then used it as the dielectric in a capacitor that itself was part of a superconducting transmon
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A tardigrade cooled to near absolute zero and placed in a state of quantum entanglement survived its ordeal
Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Worldwide, 1.5 billion people live with chronic pain, with greater prevalence among adults living in poverty, women and the elderly. In the US alone, chronic pain costs an estimated $560–635 billion per year in direct medical costs, lost productivity and disability programmes. Treatment for pain remains a major scientific and clinical challenge: the current portfolio of analgesic drugs such as opioids can relieve pain, but they also have immediate side effects on sensory and mental function and
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The new coronavirus variant may be better than other versions at avoiding human immune defenses—but that ability may change in different countries. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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.
Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Launch is usually the most dangerous part of a space mission. Once the payload has been hurled skyward atop a column of fire and reached space intact, mission scientists remember they’ve been holding their breath, and slowly exhale in relief. Not so with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). For NASA’s latest and most expensive eye on the sky, launch on an Ariane 5 rocket will be the simple part.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A guest podcast from Undark: As Nigeria’s mangrove forests are covered with sand, dredging threatens the livelihoods of local people. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The world is fast running out of time to act to limit hospitalisations and deaths from omicron, with England having just a week or two left to implement policies that will have a substantial impact
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A rapidly spreading variant could dangerously strain health-care systems, even if the severe disease risk is relatively low for an individual. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
The rise of the omicron coronavirus variant has put an increased focus on regular testing, but are rapid lateral flow tests the right tool for the job?
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 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.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 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
A Greener Life
DECEMBER 17, 2021
By Jeremy Williams. Climate privilege is the luxury of being unconcerned about climate change. It doesn’t appear to affect you, it’s largely an academic question, and it doesn’t impose itself on your day to day reality. For some people, the climate crisis is life and death. It’s about survival. For others, it’s an environmental concern or a problem for future generations.
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Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 17, 2021
by Tom Ptak, Texas State University The average American’s everyday interactions with energy sources are limited. They range from turning appliances on or off, to commuting, to paying utility bills. The connections between those acts and rising global temperatures may seem distant.
The Applied Ecologist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. In this post, Martin Luehrmann of The University of Queensland takes us on a journey through the development of sight through the evolution of fish and early vertebrates. Imagine waking up and the world is black, your eyelids won’t open.
Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
In this short video with Elekta, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Francisco Nunez introduces ProKnow. The cloud-based ProKnow software is designed to improve quality in radiation therapy. It allows users to perform individual patient analysis, as well as data analysis across large populations of patients, to evaluate treatment outcomes and improve cancer care.
National Law Center
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. REGULATORY: EPA, The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: December 17, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Earth 911
DECEMBER 17, 2021
In a world of steadily increasing energy costs, solar energy has never looked as attractive. The post Explore the Next Generation of Solar Roofing appeared first on Earth911.
Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
This year’s ASTRO annual meeting saw Siemens Healthineers and Varian focus on artificial intelligence (AI). In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Lisa-Marie Petzold from Siemens Healthineers explains how AI can support radiotherapy, for example, via the introduction of deep learning-based contouring of organs-at-risk. Varian’s Michelle Nystrom then describes how this autocontouring system integrates seamlessly with the Eclipse treatment planning system.
National Law Center
DECEMBER 17, 2021
For decades, farmers in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and other underserved communities have been disproportionately affected by unfairly. The post Resources for Underserved Communities: Highlight on Access to Credit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Several countries are looking to routinely look for the fingerprints of warming right after extreme weather events happen. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Collisions with high-speed space rocks in Venus’s early history could have melted most of the planet’s mantle and driven any water into the atmosphere
CEQA Developments
DECEMBER 17, 2021
In an opinion filed November 15, and later ordered published on December 14, 2021, the Sixth District Court of Appeal reaffirmed the basic CEQA principle that required environmental review and analysis must precede project approval, and it applied that principle to invalidate the California Coastal Commission’s (Commission) approval of a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) for a residential subdivision project in Monterey County.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Forests have a localised cooling effect, and in tropical areas where deforestation has occurred, outdoor workers are now feeling the heat more
Physics World
DECEMBER 17, 2021
In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Siemens Healthineers’ Gabriel Haras introduces the company’s portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-based products. Such technologies support the entire care pathway for cancer patients, from screening and diagnostics to treatment and follow-up, including innovations such as AI-based autocontouring and generation of synthetic CT from an MRI scan for radiotherapy planning.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Omicron has become a global threat to public health thanks to a particularly dangerous set of mutations, but where did it come from?
Inhabitant
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Densely-populated cities tirelessly struggle to find space to meet the needs of a megalopolis. One thriving region in Shenzhen, China has dealt with its spectacular growth in a highly innovative way — converting an underutilized rooftop into an educational, sports and recreational hub for the young and active population that inhabit the city.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 17, 2021
International species and selective breeding methods are helping to preserve the evergreen tradition. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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