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 ?.
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.
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Circle of Blue
JANUARY 7, 2022
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are losing ice coverage faster than ever before. California officials impose outdoor water use restrictions. Flooding displaces thousands and destroys crops in Indonesia. A recent court ruling forces a mining company will decrease its water use at a Chilean copper mine. Environmental activists lose faith in the South African government’s willingness to clean the contaminated Vaal River.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 3, 2022
Gas stations have been fixtures in our world for a century or more. There are even books of photos of picturesque gas stations, some futuristic, others quaint. We’re transitioning into a world dominated by electric vehicles. What does the future hold for these icons of the fossil fuel era? There are now about a hundred thousand gas stations in the U.S.
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
JANUARY 3, 2022
Electric cars accounted for roughly two-thirds of new sales in Norway last year, a key milestone on the country’s way to ending the sale of gas-powered cars by 2025, Reuters reported. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2022
UCS climate scientist reviews "Don't Look Up," an allegory for climate inaction.
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Physics World
JANUARY 6, 2022
Precise measurements of the motions of antiprotons and protons suggest that antimatter responds to gravity in the same way as matter. The experiment was done at CERN by the international BASE collaboration and involved trapping antiprotons and negative hydrogen ions using electric and magnetic fields. The measurements also provide the best confirmation yet that the antiproton conforms to certain aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Yale E360
JANUARY 4, 2022
Beijing met state air quality standards for the first time in 2021, though it still faces high levels of pollution as it prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Read more on E360 ?.
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.
New Scientist
JANUARY 5, 2022
A US and Canadian team have estimated 1.85 million new childhood asthma cases were linked with exposure to nitrogen dioxide in 2019, 8.5 per cent of all new cases that year.
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
JANUARY 6, 2022
Predicting epileptic seizures: Data recorded by wearable sensors are uploaded regularly to cloud storage and analysed using deep learning. Patients also uploaded data from their responsive neurostimulation devices and the intracranial EEG data were reviewed for seizure activity. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/ Sci. Rep. 10.1038/s41598-021-01449-2). Data from a wearable wristband monitoring device can forecast epileptic seizures about 30 minutes before they occur, according to research published in Scienti
Yale E360
JANUARY 6, 2022
In France, where junk food ads must include messages imploring consumers to snack less and eat more fruits and vegetables, car ads will soon be required to include messages encouraging people to walk, bike, or take public transportation, French media report. Read more on E360 ?.
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
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
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 5, 2022
An artificial intelligence (AI) system that can identify diabetic retinopathy (DR) without physician assistance, including the most serious form that puts patients at risk of blindness, has outperformed expectations in a clinical trial. The commercial system successfully detected the presence and severity of the disease in 97% of eyes analysed. Deployment of such AI systems in primary care facilities for use by non-specialists could significantly increase access to eye exams that include DR eval
Yale E360
JANUARY 7, 2022
Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Following that announcement, an INPE researcher said the government would stop monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado, owing to a lack of funds.
Scientific American
JANUARY 6, 2022
Independent concepts from each nation envision launching high-speed spacecraft on aspirational multigenerational voyages into the great unknown of interstellar space. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 4, 2022
Germany is expected to increase its fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in 2022, if its weather conditions and electricity demand are similar to 2021, a new analysis from Environmental Progress finds. This would come on top of an increase in fossil fuel usage in the public electricity supply in 2021 as compared to 2020, when consumption of electricity was lowered due to COVID-19-related shutdowns and disruption.
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Physics World
JANUARY 6, 2022
Pluto is less than 20% of the diameter of Earth and is on average six billion kilometres away, yet astronomers have been able to study its tenuous atmosphere since the 1980s. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast the astronomers (and siblings) Leslie Young and Eliot Young talk about Pluto’s atmosphere and how it changes as the dwarf planet follows its elliptical orbit around the Sun.
Earth 911
JANUARY 5, 2022
We’ve heard of life hacks. How about a hack for making a difference? Make one. The post How to Use Search Engines to Help the People and the Planet appeared first on Earth911.
Scientific American
JANUARY 6, 2022
A new study’s authors say their investigation represents the first time that a nonhuman brain has been shown to detect language. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
JANUARY 7, 2022
The rate at which methane concentrations are rising is concerning researchers, with 2020 marking the biggest annual jump since 1983.
Breezometer
JANUARY 5, 2022
Seeing two or more air quality sources saying completely different things can be confusing. Let’s explore some of the reasons why BreezoMeter and your local air quality source may at times show different reports for the same area at the same time. 1)You’re Looking at a Different Air Quality Index. Different countries and regions use air quality indexes based on different scales and logic.
Ocean Conservancy
JANUARY 3, 2022
Moon jellies have a special place in my heart. Once on a family vacation, we wrapped up a hike at Acadia National Park to find hundreds of moon jellies floating near the shore. It was a magical sight. It felt as if we had crossed over into some alien dimension, the rocky coastline transformed into a sea filled with these other-worldly creatures. What do moon jellyfish look like?
Scientific American
JANUARY 5, 2022
As trees are cleared, surrounding areas heat up, triggering heavy rainstorms. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
JANUARY 5, 2022
Since its rebrand as “Meta”, Facebook has been throwing its considerable weight behind the idea of an immersive virtual reality world.
National Law Center
JANUARY 6, 2022
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. There are. The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: January 6, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Physics World
JANUARY 6, 2022
Researchers have developed a new way of generating extremely short pulses of visible light using a simple, commercially-available laser system. The innovative approach, which exploits nonlinear effects in glass fibres that transmit light beams with different spatial profiles, could make it easier and cheaper to study ultrafast phenomena such as photosynthesis in plants, the dynamics of electron-hole pairs in semiconductors and the chemistry of human vision.
Scientific American
JANUARY 5, 2022
The DarkNPS algorithm has predicted the formulas of millions of potential drugs. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 6, 2022
The Better Path Coalition reported on January 6 two local residents Christine “PK” DiGiulio, Analytical Chemist from Downingtown, Upper Uwchlan Township, and Connor Young, Registered Nurse from Lionville, Uwchlan Township, locked their bodies and halted construction on the Energy Transfer Partners/Sunoco Mariner East Pipelines. This pipeline project is slated to take natural gas liquids out of the US to overseas markets.
Inhabitant
JANUARY 4, 2022
While your school days may be well behind you, you can relive the joys of your youth in this tiny home that sees a 1969 International school bus converted into a cozy Airbnb rental.
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 6, 2022
Read the full story from the University of Nebraska. As nitrogen fertilizer prices rise across the country, a research team that includes University of Nebraska–Lincoln scientists has gained new resources and partners as they work to decrease the amount of nitrogen that crops such as sorghum and corn require to reach their maximum yield potential.
Scientific American
JANUARY 6, 2022
A ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1942 can today help track large pulses of mud from the Mississippi River. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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