Yale E360
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
The argument against major hydropower projects — ravaged ecosystems and large-scale displacement of people — is well known. But dam critics now say that climate change, bringing dried-up reservoirs and increased methane releases, should spell the end of big hydropower. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
High-profile water-related issues were also on the ballot in Maine, Boise, and Virginia Beach. The New York City skyline and the Hudson River. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. New Yorkers approved an environmental rights amendment in their state constitution. Voters in Boise and Virginia Beach authorized infrastructure spending plans that exceed a half-billion dollars.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Scientists everywhere should be outraged at this attempt by the University of Florida to suppress science in a crucial public policy debate.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
As COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, Scotland this week, the world is confronted with a basic reality. Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the Paris Agreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The UN’s 2021 Emissions Gap Report finds that under current pledges temperatures will still rise by 2.7°C by the end of the century.
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.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
In pollution hotspots like western Pennsylvania — where petrochemical facilities are proliferating — local residents, distrustful of companies and government, are taking advantage of low-cost technologies to do their own monitoring of air, water, and noise pollution. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
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 international news, this week marks the start of a critical UN climate conference, known as COP26. Leaders meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, have three main issues on the agenda. One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating.
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Physics World
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
We do love an alternative periodic table here at Physics World , so I was chuffed to discover that the European Chemical Society has put a sustainable twist on its version of the table that displays the elements in terms of their abundance here on Earth. Any guesses regarding the most abundant element on Earth? Judging from the table it is oxygen, followed possibly by silicon and then maybe hydrogen.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Some big international conferences begin with high ambition and end in ignominious failure. Some start with modest ambition and achieve major success. It’s too early to tell how the UN climate conference in Glasgow will go. Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The newly autonomous Bangsamoro government has invited investors to pursue drilling projects in a marsh critical for both Indigenous peoples and wildlife. The 288,000-hectare marsh is the country’s largest intact wetland, and an internationally-recognized “important bird and biodiversity area.” Photo © Rex Songcayauon / Flickr Creative Commons.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Science Network community and partnerships manager Melissa Varga shares her rundown of recent student voter data–it's good news for democracy.
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
OCTOBER 31, 2021
As the COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says global average temperatures have been 1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels for two decades
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Tens of billions of dollars in aid are being poured into helping the most vulnerable nations to adapt to climate change. Rich nations in Glasgow are promising more. But is the money being well spent? Authors of a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) say not. Often it is funding projects that increase vulnerability. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
OCTOBER 31, 2021
A new way to grow large, defect-free quasicrystals has been developed by researchers in the US. Through a combination of experiments and simulations, Ashwin Shahani and colleagues at the University of Michigan showed how clusters of growing quasicrystals can coalesce to create larger structures, provided they are mostly aligned with each other. The results could pave the way for a new wave of interest in the exotic materials.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
As US offshore wind begins to become a reality, it is providing more (and more) reasons to be excited.
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.
Environmental Law Centre
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the wrong path: the proposed Trails Act needs changes to ensure trail management reflects science Edmonton, Alberta – November 3, 2021. The post On the wrong path: the proposed Trails Act needs changes to ensure trail management reflects science appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
If at first you don’t succeed, try another declaration. Tuesday's highlight at the Glasgow climate summit was the Declaration on Forest and Land Use, under which more than 100 leaders — from Russia to Brazil to Canada to Indonesia — pledged to end deforestation and land degradation by 2030. It brought a sense of déjà vu. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Creating elements lighter than iron might not require the extreme conditions found inside very massive stars. According to a group of physicists in Japan and Canada, it is possible that oxygen, nitrogen and all other elements with atomic numbers up to 25 have also been produced inside the Earth. Their eye-catching claim relies on the idea that fusion reactions occur in the Earth’s lower mantle, where they are catalyzed by neutrinos and excited electrons.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Last week, EPA released its first scorecard on how truck manufacturers are faring under these new standards. The simple answer is: quite well.
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New Scientist
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Some animals can develop problematic behaviours the longer they stay in an animal shelter, but cats tend to become friendlier and less aggressive
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Is coal-burning in the midst of being banished from the world’s energy systems? Or is it, on the contrary, bouncing back as countries reboot their economies after the pandemic lockdown? The answer may seal the fate of the planet, but it remains up in the air after contradictory claims in recent hours at the Glasgow climate summit. Politicians are optimistic; scientists much less so.
Physics World
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Rebecca Peer of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand believes that sharing information about experimental methodologies, pilot studies and novel datasets will improve the quality of research. (Courtesy: Rebecca Peer). Building useful datasets, devising novel experiments, and creating new computer programs are all critical elements of modern scientific research.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
To deliver new clean energy, the country will need changes in transmission and transmission policy.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
More oversight of dealers and investment in impoverished communities are key to reducing violence, say experts. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
A US intelligence report has revealed that a drone was used in an attempt to disable an electrical substation in Pennsylvania last year, in the first known attack of its kind
Physics World
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
A future in which quantum computers are commonplace might seem like an optimistic fantasy, but it could also involve hackers using those computers to steal important information. To thwart would-be bad actors , researchers developed a cryptographic protocol known as quantum key distribution (QKD) that uses the laws of quantum mechanics to enhance communication security.
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Image: Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock.com. Have you ever asked yourself what is it in our brains that actually helps us navigate in the world? Helping us answer that question, Prof May-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. When you think about navigation, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Cool Green Science
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Wildlife watching is a skill. Here are some tips to get you started. The post How To See More Wildlife appeared first on Cool Green Science.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Soft robots could one day be powered by a material that absorbs water to become strong and stiff, mimicking the physics of the cells in plant roots
Physics World
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Lines of enquiry Vera Rubin measuring spectra at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, in about 1970. (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Rubin Collection). In the early 2000s, I sat down at a desk in Durham University library and, behind a tower of ageing books, I began researching my undergraduate dissertation.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Individuals often overestimate how harshly others judge them. But self-compassion can help build a more balanced, healthy perspective. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Environmental Leader
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Businesses across the United States and Europe reach out to their governments to take standard ESG actions. The post Businesses Seek Governmental ESG Standards, Policies appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes.
Physics World
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Today’s best quantum computers have fewer than 100 quantum bits (qubits), but future applications of quantum computing may require millions or more. Finding space for that many qubits will be tricky regardless of whether the qubits are made from trapped ions, superconductors, quantum dots or some other technology. Furthermore, as the number of qubits grows, so will the amount of wiring needed to control and connect them.
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