Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 24, 2022
The IoT, or internet of things sector describes physical objects embedded with technology such as sensors, computers, and software that allow data about them to be collected and communicated. The post IoT in Smart Cities Market To More Than Double By 2026, Says MarketsandMarkets appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Real Climate
JANUARY 15, 2022
So last week was the annual release of the temperature records from NASA, NOAA and Berkeley Earth. The Copernicus ERA5 data was released a few days ago, and the HadCRUT data will follow soon. Unlike in years past, there is no longer any serious discrepancy between the records – which use multiple approaches for the ocean temperatures, the homogenization of the weather stations records, and interpolation.
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Yale E360
JANUARY 13, 2022
Amazon Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia has fought against massive dam projects and the incursion of illegal loggers and miners onto her community’s lands. In a Yale e360 interview, she explains why what’s at stake is the survival of her people and their millennia-old way of life. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
Yale postdoctoral fellow Aileen Fernandez writes about how she and her colleagues have come together to help retain, support, and provide community for underrepresented minority postdocs at Yale University.
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.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 24, 2022
Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In Syria, a strategically important dam that was supposed to be protected from airstrikes was in fact the target of a U.S. bombing campaign during the war against Islamic State. The New York Times reports that a top secret special operations unit in the Defense Department bombed the Tabqa Dam on March 26, 2017.
New Scientist
JANUARY 26, 2022
It has long been suspected that vitamin D could help reduce the risk of developing an autoimmune disease, and now we have evidence this is the case – at least for people over 50
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Real Climate
JANUARY 1, 2022
The highlight of the movie season for climate science has clearly been the release on Dec 24th 2021 of “Don’t Look Up” While nominally about a different kind of disaster – the discovery of a comet heading to Earth on a collision course – the skewering of our current science-policy dysfunction transcends the specifics and makes a powerful metaphor for climate change, and even the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Yale E360
JANUARY 11, 2022
From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
UCS Climate and Energy program policy director Rachel Cleetus breaks down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest report on costly, dangerous climate-related disasters in 2021.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 6, 2022
Since the dawn of civilization, water has defined where people live, when they thrive, and when they move. In a special episode of Speaking of Water authors Giulio Boccaletti and Parag Khanna interview each other about their new books that are capturing attention around the world and provoking debate about borders, conflicts, and what sustainability may look like for the human race.
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.
Physics World
JANUARY 29, 2022
The extreme pressures and temperatures found in the cores of Earth-like planets have been recreated using an ultrahigh-power laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The research was led by Richard Kraus and suggests that rocky planets larger than Earth should have strong magnetic fields that are sustained over billions of years. The study could provide key guidance in the continuing search for life on the growing number of Earth-like exoplanets that have been observed orbitin
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 19, 2022
Supply Chain traceability systems are becoming more important for companies to track their production every step of the way for sustainability, accountability and financial benefits. The post Traceability Systems an Important Supply Chain Tool for Companies and Investors appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Ocean Conservancy
JANUARY 27, 2022
Until recently, my knowledge of krill has been limited to the fact that they’re the primary diet for some of the more charismatic ocean critters like penguins, seals and baleen whales. But these tiny planktonic crustaceans are so much more than just whale food! Norwegian for “small fry of fish” (I know—not a great start), these transparent-bodied crustaceans average about two inches in length and are found in large swarms which help protect them against predators.
Yale E360
JANUARY 5, 2022
Numerous startups are creating synthetic palm oil in the lab, hoping to slow the loss of tropical forests to oil palm cultivation. But palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil, and producing a synthetic version on a large scale remains a daunting challenge. Read more on E360 ?.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2022
UCS climate scientist reviews "Don't Look Up," an allegory for climate inaction.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 13, 2022
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. The U. K. Environment Agency directs employees to ignore some incidents of pollution, according to a leaked internal report. Some seasonal workers in the U. K. report “unacceptable” accommodations, including lack of running water. Ethiopia will begin generating power from a controversial Nile River dam. The U. S. Navy agrees to drain fuel tanks that are believed to have contaminated water supplies near Pearl Harbor.
Physics World
JANUARY 22, 2022
Physicists have measured long-range quantum entanglement in special, topologically ordered phases of matter for the first time. This feat, which was achieved independently by two research groups using coupled superconducting circuits and arrays of atoms, could aid the development of robust memories for quantum computers. When certain materials are cooled to extremely low temperatures, exotic phases of matter appear.
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 20, 2022
In an effort to accelerate its growth as a platform innovator, GM will take HYDROTEC beyond its use in vehicles to mobile power generation. The post GM Announces It Will Expand Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Beyond Vehicles appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Scientific American
JANUARY 18, 2022
Spacetime may emerge from a more fundamental reality. Figuring out how could unlock the most urgent goal in physics—a quantum theory of gravity. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Yale E360
JANUARY 20, 2022
Ammonia has been widely used as a fertilizer for the last century. Now, using renewable energy and a new method for making ammonia, researchers and entrepreneurs believe "green" ammonia can become a significant clean fuel source for generating electricity and powering ships. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 27, 2022
Key takeaways about the administration's progress on scientific integrity so far.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 17, 2022
A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy. Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Photo © NASA Johnson /Flickr Creative Commons. Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium.
Physics World
JANUARY 21, 2022
A new nanomechanical resonator inspired by the structure of a spider’s web could be used in quantum sensors to sense ultra-small forces such as gravity. The resonator, which was designed using machine learning, works at room temperature – a first for a device of this kind. Nanomechanical resonators are tiny vibrating beams that oscillate at very high resonant frequencies – often in the megahertz or gigahertz range.
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 21, 2022
By utilizing recycled materials such as steel slag, a waste byproduct of steel smelting, SteelPhalt reduces the carbon footprint of road-laying by 40%. The post Harsco Environmental Relaunches SteelPhalt to Expand Sustainable Asphalt Operations appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
New Scientist
JANUARY 13, 2022
Declines in birds and mammals are hampering plants by curbing the dispersal of their seeds, in a "clear intersection of the biodiversity crisis heavily impacting the climate crisis"
Yale E360
JANUARY 18, 2022
The Covid pandemic has hit African tourism and the wildlife conservation it supports extremely hard. But Indigenous-managed projects, such as the Il Ngwesi eco-lodge and conservancy run by Masaai in Kenya, have benefited by local people’s stewardship of their lands. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2022
USDA must rebuild scientific workforce to address farming, public health, and climate challenges.
Scientific American
JANUARY 7, 2022
The farcical allegory of climate change shows the pitfalls of relying solely on technology and misunderstanding scientific certainty. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
JANUARY 17, 2022
For the first time, astronomers have captured the death of a red supergiant star in real time: revealing a dramatic surge in brightness in the months preceding its final explosion. For researchers of the Young Supernova Experiment , led by Wynn Jacobson-Galán at the University of California, Berkeley, the event was far more violent than would be expected from previous observations.
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 26, 2022
A new report released today from the Deloitte Economics Institute shows that the United States economy could gain $3 trillion if it rapidly decarbonizes over the next 50 years. The post Deloitte Report: Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost the US Economy $14.5 Trillion by 2070 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
New Scientist
JANUARY 7, 2022
Artificial intelligence’s lack of transparency is leading many to fear the technology and others to elevate it to a mysterious god-like figure, but we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says anthropologist Beth Singler
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 7, 2022
Backyard fences, decks and landscaping helped spread the flames through suburban neighborhoods and shopping malls baked by global warming. By Bob Berwyn When he saw smoke in the air around Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 30, Tom Veblen walked up a trail near his home to check it out. Veblen, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder who has been studying forest ecology, wildfires and climate change since the mid-1970s, said he could see that the Marshall Fire, on the sout
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2022
"Looking up" is not going to be enough.
Scientific American
JANUARY 10, 2022
You might not think that you can generate more body acceleration than a big-league baseball pitcher, but new research shows you can. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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