Yale E360
MAY 3, 2021
The northernmost tip of South America, home to the Indigenous Wayúu people, is the epicenter of Colombia’s nascent wind energy industry. But Wayúu leaders are concerned that the government and wind companies are not dealing fairly with the inhabitants of this long-neglected land. Read more on E360 ?.
NAEP Leadership Blog
MAY 3, 2021
Last year as COVID restrictions were being initiated throughout the world, NAEP had just shifted from an in-person conference format to a remote conference. At that time, scientists were not being held in high regard in many venues. NAEP was very concerned about how as an organization we were going to navigate this new paradigm of helping our members stay engaged and informed considering all of the changes and uncertainties.
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Law and Environment
MAY 4, 2021
Late last month, the Washington Legislature passed the “ Climate Commitment Act ”, a piece of sweeping climate legislation that includes, among other provisions, an economy-wide cap-and-trade system. Washington was not far behind Massachusetts, which enacted its “ next generation roadmap ” bill in late March. This friendly competition among states to move towards net zero economies as aggressively as possible is certainly a good thing.
Physics World
MAY 4, 2021
In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. Later, in 2015, as a Master’s student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab working on a science–art project called Aspire Mirror , she had a similar issue with facial analysis software: it detected her face o
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
MAY 6, 2021
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, talks with Yale Environment 360 about the yawning gap between vows to cut carbon output and reality, his agency’s road map for slashing emissions, and why the clean-energy revolution could soon become unstoppable. Read more on E360 ?.
Cleannovate
MAY 7, 2021
The mound of plastic waste kept growing by the day. When the size reached a ‘climax’ of sorts, the ‘boys’ would light it up and see it go in flames. These were all sorts of plastics: From electric accessories to plastic utensils…. From furniture waste to waste packages…. From pharmaceutical products to cosmetics…. The list is endless.
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Energy & the Law
MAY 4, 2021
Co-author Brittany Blakey. The Texas Supreme Court in Concho Resources, Inc. v. Ellison enforced a boundary stipulation involving an unambiguous deed about which there had been no dispute. You can refer to our earlier post to understand the facts, the boundary, and the Court of Appeals decison. More facts. The Boundary Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interests between the owners of the Northwest Tract and Southeast Tract mineral estates declared the boundary of the mineral estate to be diffe
Yale E360
MAY 4, 2021
Eversource Energy, New England’s largest utility, markets itself as a company that strives for carbon neutrality and invests in offshore wind power. But at a recent industry presentation, Eversource officials outlined a strategy to continue using natural gas for years to come and to fight growing efforts to decarbonize the heating of buildings, according to E & E News.
Cleannovate
MAY 4, 2021
It seemed as if the toil would not end. And what made it even harder was that elusive payday. But this did not stop the ‘powers-that-be’ from demanding that we meet the strict deadlines. So I kept on working on the unfinished business…unfinished work. But the more I kept going on, the less I felt motivated. The ‘money’ wasn’t coming any time soon.
Cool Green Science
MAY 3, 2021
Baby eagles are hatching: it’s time to tune into nest cams! The post Bald Eagle Cams Are Active. Here Are 4 of the Best appeared first on Cool Green Science.
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
MAY 5, 2021
Flat sheets of fresh and dried pasta that morph into tubes or spirals when cooked have been created by researchers in the US and China. The team hopes that the invention could reduce both the amount of packaging needed for pasta and the carbon emissions associated with cooking and transporting it. Pasta shapes such as penne (tubes) or fusilli (spirals) contain a lot of air.
Yale E360
MAY 6, 2021
A mangrove preservation project along Colombia’s Caribbean coast is using a more comprehensive method to calculate how much carbon is stored in coastal and marine ecosystems, potentially boosting global efforts to conserve so-called blue carbon. Read more on E360 ?.
Real Climate
MAY 1, 2021
This month’s open thread for climate science topics. The post Unforced Variations: May 2021 first appeared on RealClimate.
Corp Watch
MAY 5, 2021
South African prosecutors seized luxury property and vehicles worth some 1.4 billion South African rand ($96.8 million) in early May from contractors and former officials at Eskom, South Africa's state-owned power utility, as they ramped up criminal proceedings over alleged corruption in construction orders for the Kusile Power Station.
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
MAY 2, 2021
Fourteen possible antimatter stars (“antistars”) have been flagged up by astronomers searching for the origin of puzzling amounts of antihelium nuclei detected coming from deep space by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS-02 ) on the International Space Station. Three astronomers at the University of Toulouse – Simon Dupourqué, Luigi Tibaldo and Peter von Ballmoos – found the possible antistars in archive gamma-ray data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Washington Nature
MAY 3, 2021
The Health Environment for All (HEAL) Act is one of the most meaningful commitments lawmakers made in the landmark 2021 Washington state legislative session. It stands with groundbreaking climate policy, a forward-looking capital budget and dozens of other bills that are crucial to realizing our vision of a world where people and nature thrive. The Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act is a first step toward ensuring that communities overburdened by pollution and other environmental risks can b
The Applied Ecologist
MAY 6, 2021
New work by Arnold and colleagues shows that sustainably grown cacao is a conservation solution which can support both people and nature, and that cacao agroforests and secondary forest can enrich regional biodiversity. Conservation initiatives have traditionally focused on protecting untouched natural areas.
Breezometer
MAY 5, 2021
For World Asthma Day on the 5th May, we decided to test the public's knowledge about the environmental connection to asthma. Here we reveal the answers if you haven't taken the test yet - why not take the quiz here first! Asthma & the Environment: Quiz Answers. 1. Air Pollution Exposure Contributes to Asthma Development - True or False? Correct Answer: True.
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Physics World
MAY 1, 2021
The physics that allows spinning stones to skip across the surface of water has been thoroughly analysed by Jie Tang at Southwest Jiaotong University in China and colleagues. The team used theoretical models and simple experiments to identify three key factors underlying the process and their findings could lead to important insights into the dynamics of aircraft and spacecraft that land on water.
Environmental Law Centre
MAY 5, 2021
The Inquiry Into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns: What’s Next? In July 2019, shortly after the provincial election, the Kenney government set up the Public inquiry. The post The Inquiry Into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns: What’s Next? appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.
The Applied Ecologist
MAY 5, 2021
Why are the United Nations advocating for citizen science and technology? Using an Australian case study, let’s see how drones and local communities may be the answer to large scale and ongoing ecological monitoring. In the past, research in inaccessible areas has been limited to either small samples sizes, due to high costs and safety issues, or lower resolution data from satellites.
Washington Nature
MAY 7, 2021
How can we know what lives in the environments all around us? We are utilizing a way of doing just that at The Nature Conservancy’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve using environmental DNA. Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is the genetic material found in a soil, water or air sample from species as they pass through an environment. Capturing this DNA allows us to provide a census of the diversity of plants, bacteria and animals in a particular area and use the data to inform strategies in how we make decisio
Physics World
MAY 6, 2021
The mission to build the UK’s first commercial quantum computer is gathering pace in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at the facility of Oxford Instruments NanoScience. The UK-based manufacturer of specialist scientific equipment, including the state-of-the-art dilution refrigerators needed to operate quantum systems and other condensed-matter experiments at ultralow temperatures, is part of a consortium that is seeking to deliver a quantum computer that will start running the first end-user applications
Eco Coach
MAY 7, 2021
There are many approaches to getting your colleagues on board with going green and implementing environmental sustainability at work. We have addressed some of these in prior posts in this series, including leading by example , story telling , social norms and FOMO and answering WIIFM. Sharing data related to sustainability can also be a powerful way to create change and to get others on board with environmental sustainability.
Cool Green Science
MAY 3, 2021
Soil scientists find evidence of soil health improving in the first few years of cover crop use on farms. The post Science Shows Cover Crops Increase Soil Health appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Eco Justice
MAY 7, 2021
Learn about “the grandmother effect” – and how you can take action today to protect endangered Southern Resident killer whales. Mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers are at the heart of Southern. Read more. The post The grandmother effect: How female Southern Resident killer whales take care of their families appeared first on Ecojustice.
Physics World
MAY 5, 2021
Polyethylene is one of the most common plastics in the world, but it is seldom found in clothing because it cannot absorb or carry away water. (Imagine wearing a plastic bag – you would feel very uncomfortable very quickly.) Now, however, researchers in the US have developed a new material spun from polyethylene that not only “breathes” better than cotton, nylon or polyester, but also has a smaller ecological footprint due to the ease with which it can be manufactured, dyed, cleaned and used.
Science & Climate
MAY 3, 2021
Solar Development: Super Bloom or Super Bust for Desert Species? Rare Desert Plants More Sensitive to Solar Development. featured image by Getty. Throughout the history of the West, human actions have often rushed the desert — and their actions backfired. In the 1920s, the Colorado River Compact notoriously overallocated water still used today by several Western states because water measurements were taken during a wet period.
CEQA Developments
MAY 3, 2021
In an 85-page opinion filed March 25, and modified and certified for partial publication on April 23, 2021, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the Napa County Superior Court’s judgment denying a writ petition challenging the County’s EIR and approvals for an expansion of Syar Industries, Inc.’s (Syar) aggregate mining operations at a quarry that has existed since the 1800s.
E2 Law Blog
MAY 7, 2021
April 2021 saw two major developments in climate change legislation in the EU and in Germany. These developments confirm that the goal of fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest will increasingly shape EU and German law-making for the foreseeable future. Further legislative action may be just around the corner.
Physics World
MAY 4, 2021
A scattering-invariant mode of light is generated by a spatial light modulator. This modulated beam propagates through free space (top) or a strongly scattering medium (bottom) such that the pattern of the transmitted light is the same in both cases. (Courtesy: Allard Mosk/Matthias Kühmayer). Scientists in Europe have experimentally created a new class of light waves that can pass through opaque materials as if they were not there.
JANZEN AG
MAY 7, 2021
Real property law is probably the most antiquated of all legal subjects. Many legal subject matters have been through periods of modernization, when lawyers, judges, and legislatures worked together to update laws for the times. For example, commercial law was modernized in the 1950s when the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) was published as a model act.
The Energy Law Blog
MAY 5, 2021
In recent years, there has been an increase in litigation relating to the unleased owner reporting requirements contained in La. R.S. 30:103.1 and the penalty imposed in La. R.S. 30:103.2. There are few cases interpreting these statutes. However, the existing authority recognizes that even if an operator fails to comply with such reporting requirements, an unleased owner must provide sufficient notice under La.
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