Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Carbon-reduction plans, if not well designed, can worsen water scarcity and pollution. Transmission lines in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stretch to the horizon. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Plans to reduce carbon emissions should take water into account. Some low-carbon energy options require significant amounts of water. Water can also be a climate solution.
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
There is a new push to reduce CH 4 emissions as a possible quick ‘win-win’ for climate and air quality. To be clear this is an eminently sensible idea – as it has been for decades (remember the ‘ Methane-to-markets’ initiative from the early 2000s?), but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane.
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Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Photographer Luigi Avantaggiato has trekked high into the Italian Alps to document the melting of some of the world’s most studied glaciers. His images track the glaciers’ increasingly rapid retreat and capture the stark beauty of a land in transition as the ice disappears. Read more on E360 ?.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Dear 1L: You’ve gotten to law school at a crucial time for the future of the planet. The good news is that you’re arriving at a pivotal point when your work as a lawyer can make a big difference. The bad news is that we have a limited amount of time to get the situation under control. You’ll need to plunge right into the issues as a lawyer if you’re going to contribute.
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.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Cyanotoxins in the state’s second-largest freshwater lake soared this month amid a hot, dry summer. Colorful blooms of cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, paint the nearshore waters of Clear Lake, California’s second-largest freshwater lake. Toxin levels in the blooms broke records in this hot, dry summer. Photo courtesy of Frank Costner.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
A UCS team looked closely at an industrial fire's health effects on a fenceline community.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
I have written before about the importance of taking action quickly to reduce and eliminate methane emissions, including here. On Friday, the US and EU announced a Global Methane Pledge, which the UK and others immediately joined. The Pledge received limited press coverage, but it is an important step that will lead to real action, particularly if more nations join the Pledge in the run-up to COP 26 in November.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Canada, an Indigenous community is celebrating the arrival of clean drinking water. For the first time in 24 years, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has water that meets national standards. Shoal Lake 40 is on the Ontario-Manitoba border.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
A national heat safety standard for workers is long overdue.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Its structural attributes and physiological effects make it an ideal tool for learning cardiology; studying heart-brain interactions; and dispensing neuro-cardiac therapy. -- 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
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Construction will soon be starting on the world’s first national laboratory to be dedicated to quantum computing. With funding of £93m over the next five years, the primary objective of the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) is to accelerate the scale-up and exploitation of practical quantum computers. The NQCC will be built in Harwell, Oxfordshire, alongside several other top-tier scientific facilities operated by the Science and Facilities Technology Council (STFC), and
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
A tomato with higher levels of a nutrient linked to reduced stress can now be bought in Japan – it is the first CRISPR-edited food in the world to be launched commercially
Cool Green Science
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
“What’s that on the road?” I wonder out loud, squinting at the dark, oblong shape in the center of the red dirt track. A tree root? A rusted tail-pipe? A weird rock? As we slow down, I recognize the strange… The post The Love Stories of Sleepy Lizards appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more. -- 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.
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Five amateur astronomers from South America and Europe have captured a burst of light on Jupiter that was the result of an asteroid crashing into the planet’s atmosphere. It is thought that the flash on 13 September – known as a meteor “bolide” – may have been created by a body tens of metres across. It is only the seventh time in history that observers have recorded an impact flash on the gas giant.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Rising gas prices mean the UK is facing a difficult winter and some people are keen to point the blame at the shift to renewables – but relying on fossil fuels will always lead to cyclical crises
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Publishing industry veteran and a former chief executive officer of MDPI, Dr. Franck Vazquez, has been appointed to lead Frontiers’ strategic partnerships. Dr. Vazquez will spearhead the direction of Frontiers’ global partnership program, enabling growth into new communities, markets, and regions. He brings considerable experience of successful leadership and strategic business development to the role, as well as a resolute commitment to open science and open access publishing.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Quantum mechanics inspires us to speculate that interactions between entities, not entities in themselves, are fundamental to reality. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Physics World
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast you will hear from scientists and software engineers at the vanguard of developing free and open-source software for physics research. Guests talk about the role of open software in astronomical imaging, the search for dark matter, medical physics and other fields. Software also plays a big role in the wider open-science movement but there are ongoing debates around how to provide suitable recognition to software developers who have contribute
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Netflix's adaptation of the bestselling picture book series Ada Twist, Scientist will be loved by children and provoke a smile from even the most jaded parents
PBS Nature
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
An osprey soars over a small saltmarsh at the delta of the Connecticut River. From somewhere along the east coast of South America, he has just flown 4,000 miles to the place that is imprinted on his memory since birth, the saltmarsh where he will rejoin his mate. Witness their reunion in Season of the Osprey , premiering nationwide Wednesday, October 27 at 8 p.m.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
They’re meant to be heroes within the Star Wars universe, but the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Chronic pain, classified as persistent pain that lasts longer than three to six months, remains an area of considerable unmet medical need. A new treatment that uses electrodes to deliver alternating pulses of ultralow-frequency (ULF) current could help address this need. In a pilot trial, the treatment improved pain ratings by as much as 90% after 15 days of use.
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
By Peter Rejcek, science writer. Image credit: Ricardo Canino / Shutterstock. More than 80 cultures still use whistled language to communicate over long distances by simplifying words, syllable by syllable, into whistled melodies. Researchers trying to decode how bottlenose dolphins, highly social mammals with the second largest brain relative to their body size after humans, communicate are leveraging insights from studies looking at how human whistled speech is structured and organized.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
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Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Millions of farmers are growing and sharing food in ways that enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
A new “time lens” that can magnify the difference in arrival times between individual photons within an ultra-short pulse has been developed by researchers in the US. Using an advanced optical setup, Shu-Wei Huang and colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder, showed how the arrival times of individual photons within a femtosecond-length pulse could be stretched out while retaining the quantum information that they carry.
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Author: Emma Phipps, Journal Specialist. Dr. Vidya Athreya is an ecologist who works for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Centre for Wildlife Studies in India and focuses mainly on human-wildlife interaction. We discussed how India’s patriarchal society has influenced her career, as well as the trials and tribulations of being a mother and a scientist.
Environmental Leader
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
With energy costs surging in Europe, impacting industries across the continent, the EU is searching for solutions to the problem. The post EU Vows to Accelerate Renewable Energy as Electricity Costs Soar appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Standard remedies offer little relief for the itchy rash caused by the plant, but researchers have found promising clues in the immune system. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
A team of researchers from the University of North Florida’s Atomic-LEGO laboratory together with researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to have observed asymmetric ferroelectricity in engineered crystals made from oxide heterostructures. The effect could be used to design nanostructured materials with tailored electronic properties.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The World Health Organization has released guidelines for strict limits on air pollution from cars, power stations and other sources.
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
We’re in the midst of an escalating climate crisis, but the Ontario government is acting like the crisis isn’t happening. Take for example Ontario’s plans to expand gas infrastructure into rural and northern communities and build more gas plants. Instead of ramping up fossil gas (aka natural gas) consumption, we need to bring it down. A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy.
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