Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 7, 2021
Electricity power plant emissions data and the latest assessments of fuel emissions and vehicle efficiency show 97 percent of people in the US live where driving an EV would produce fewer emissions than a 50 mpg gasoline car.
Yale E360
JUNE 8, 2021
As part of a broader effort to create a circular economy that reduces waste and greenhouse gas emissions, the EU will ban a host of throwaway plastic items next month and is creating an expansive and lucrative market for recycled plastics. Read more on E360 ?.
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Circle of Blue
JUNE 9, 2021
Kelly House, Bridge Magazine and Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue , – June 9, 2021. The year is 2050, and you’re visiting family in Detroit. . Arriving, you grab coffee on the ground floor of a nine-floor building filled with offices and apartments, designed to house a growing Great Lakes city without pushing out longtime residents. . Around the corner, people gather for walks and picnics in a wetland park, one of dozens constructed around the city.
Legal Planet
JUNE 7, 2021
Hurricanes Harvey and Maria. California wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. The great Texas blackout. The list goes on. These mega-events dramatize the need to improve our disaster response system. The trends are striking: escalating disaster impacts, more disaster clustering, more disaster cascades, and less predictability. We need to up our game. Lisa Grow Sun and I discuss the implications in a new paper , but here are a few of the key takeaways.
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
The lack of a comprehensive and easily accessible federal database to track and publicly report fatal encounters with the police, excessive use of force, and other policing interactions has created a blind spot for police reform and accountability.
Yale E360
JUNE 10, 2021
A recently released report on the 2018 grounding of a Russian ship in the Canadian Arctic points out the many dangers of a coming shipping boom in an increasingly ice-free Arctic, including the lack of reliable navigational charts and crews inexperienced in polar waters. Read more on E360 ?.
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Physics World
JUNE 10, 2021
The standard method of mixing biological and chemical compounds in test tubes has been shaken up in recent years by the emergence of microfluidics. This innovative field combines principles from micro-nanotechnology, biochemistry, engineering and physics, to manipulate the behaviour of fluids at the micron scale, performing traditionally laborious lab work on chips as small as postage stamps.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 9, 2021
I recently caught up with UCS Senior Engineer David Reichmuth to find out more about his new analysis on electric vehicles and ask his opinion on their short-term and long-term prospects.
Yale E360
JUNE 11, 2021
A new analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) suggests that global sales of gas-powered cars likely peaked in 2017, marking a major milestone in the shift to electric vehicles. Demand for conventional vehicles fell in 2018 and 2019 before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. While sales are likely to rebound as the pandemic ebbs, growing demand for plug-in vehicles means that gas-powered cars are almost certainly in "permanent decline," according to the report.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2021
Jaldapara National Park. Photo © Wikimedia Commons. Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue. The Himalayan foothills of West Bengal are home to some of the world’s most precious and resilient wildlife. Rare birds take sanctuary in the forests lining this eastern Indian state, a birdwatcher’s paradise; Bengal tigers and Indian gaur roam free, few in number yet breathtaking in real form; and an elephant corridor winds through Jaldapara National Park, abutting the floodplain domain of one-horned rhino
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.
Frontiers
JUNE 9, 2021
By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. Image: Oleksii Synelnykov/Shutterstock. A new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers is the first to research the link between functional brain network connectivity and behavioral temperament in newborns and one-month-old babies. The findings, which show that functional brain connectivity networks with behavioral relevance are already present in young infants, help further bridge the research gap between the human brain and our beha
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 11, 2021
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act would help address pollution that has been haunting environmental justice communities for decades.
Physics World
JUNE 7, 2021
A compelling alternative explanation for what astrophysicists believe is the largest black hole merger measured to date has been put forth by two astronomers in Germany. Alexander Nitz and Collin Capano at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics argue that the gravitational wave GW190521 created by the merger could have been triggered by a stellar-mass black hole spiralling into a far larger body.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 9, 2021
Initial distributions will help states, tribes, and territories set up the first-ever federal water bill assistance program. States, tribes, and territories are setting up the first-ever federal water bill assistance program. Photo © Matt Black for Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 9, 2021. The Department of Health and Human Services released $166.6 million in federal funds for a program to help low-income residents pay off their past-due water bills or to reduce their water
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
JUNE 7, 2021
NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it has returned for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
Extreme summer heat has arrived early in the United States. It’s 11 a.m. here in Massachusetts and the heat index, or “feels like” temperature, in my town is 97 degrees Fahrenheit and rising. I’m questioning writing this blog; it’s the third day with temperatures topping 90, which makes this an official heat wave and means […].
Physics World
JUNE 11, 2021
Quantum repeaters that can store multiplexed signals; provide heralded signals of entanglement; and operate at telecommunications wavelengths have been developed by two independent research teams. Their work could prove to be an important step towards the creation of a scalable quantum internet. If it can be built, a quantum internet would allow calculations to be distributed between multiple quantum computers – allowing larger and more complex problems to be solved.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 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 research news, a study has found that lakes across the Earth’s middle latitudes are being starved of oxygen, threatening aquatic life with suffocation. The study was published in the journal Nature. It showed that oxygen levels in lakes are decreasing, caused by a combination of factors.
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Inside Climate News
JUNE 11, 2021
New research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tracked the disintegration of a floating ice shelf and how that accelerated the flow of the Pine Island Glacier to the sea. By Bob Berwyn The Pine Island Glacier, sometimes called the “soft underbelly” of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, suddenly started moving about 10 to 12 percent faster between 2017 and 2020, as about 20 percent of its floating ice shelf broke apart in a series of large iceberg calving events.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 9, 2021
The G-7 Leaders’ Summit gets underway soon, from June 11-13, in Cornwall, UK. As host nation for this summit, and the annual climate talks later this year (also known as COP26), the UK will clearly be elevating the need for climate action, alongside dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and trade issues. One priority that must […].
Physics World
JUNE 7, 2021
The magnetometers found in some smartphones could allow devices to be used to create a distributed space weather observatory. That is the conclusion of NASA’s Sten Odenwald , who has studied the ability of four popular models of smartphone to detect small disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field. Following the advent of the iPhone model 3GS in 2009, which contains a 3-axis Hall-effect magnetometer chip, such sensors have become commonplace in smartphone and some other consumer devices.
Scientific American
JUNE 9, 2021
Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Environmental Leader
JUNE 9, 2021
In a U.S. first, the state of Maine has passed legislation – bill LD99 – directing the $17 billion Maine Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) to divest $1.3 billion from fossil fuels within 5 years and directs the Treasury to do the same with other state funds. The move makes. Read more ». The post Maine $17B Pension Fund Directed To Divest From Fossil Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
The 2021 hurricane season just started, and it’s predicted to be an active one. My colleague Dr Adrienne Hollis just wrote about the major risks to the population in hurricane-vulnerable Gulf Coast counties. In addition to existing threats from winds, extreme precipitation, flooding, and storm surges, people in the Gulf Coast are now facing an […].
Physics World
JUNE 8, 2021
Biomedical sensors that actively monitor physiological signals from moving organs undergo large and cyclic deformations. To mechanically conform to the curvature of the organs and match their motion, such sensors typically feature thin designs to ease flexibility, and elastomer encapsulations to enhance stretchability. To boost the mechanical performance of tissue-interfaced wireless biomedical devices, a research team at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) replaced the conventi
Scientific American
JUNE 10, 2021
Drilling and refining has often come at the expense of Black communities, engulfing our neighborhoods with massive amounts of toxic pollution. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Earth 911
JUNE 9, 2021
Many power tools use batteries to run instead of corded electricity or the muscle of. The post Recycling Mystery: Rechargeable Tool Batteries appeared first on Earth911.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 7, 2021
Buy that air purifier now before they’re out of stock.
Physics World
JUNE 11, 2021
Topology is a form of mathematics that describes the properties of objects that do not change during continuous deformations. The old joke is that a topologist struggles to tell the difference between a coffee mug and a doughnut. Both shapes have a single hole and if the doughnut was made of a sufficiently pliable material it could be reshaped into a coffee mug without being torn. .
Scientific American
JUNE 10, 2021
An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
New Scientist
JUNE 9, 2021
The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits
National Law Center
JUNE 10, 2021
A farmer in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) alleging that its wetland. The post Recently Filed Lawsuit Claims that Swampbuster is Unconstitutional appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Physics World
JUNE 8, 2021
(Courtesy: University of Surrey). What skills do you use every day in your job? My career is somewhat unusual in that it really is a combination of several jobs, each requiring a different skill set. First and foremost, I am an academic physicist and with my university job I have the usual teaching, research and admin responsibilities. I have always enjoyed teaching and have lectured to undergraduates at the University of Surrey every year since 1992.
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