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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

14. How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022. A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. An intravenous line sticks out from his right arm and an arrow from his left shoulder.

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Intel Commits to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2040

Environment + Energy Leader

Today, Intel Corporation pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040. The post Intel Commits to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2040 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Amid Hopes and Fears, a Plastics Boom in Appalachia Is On Hold

Yale E360

The rise of fracking in Appalachia has fed visions of turning the Ohio River Valley into a petrochemical and plastics hub. But overproduction of plastic, opposition to natural gas pipelines, and public concern about rampant plastic waste are threatening those plans. Read more on E360 ?.

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Experts Take on Carbon Polluters in the Courtroom

Union of Concerned Scientists

Physical and social scientists are playing a critical role in the rapidly growing field of climate litigation, which—to be successful—must be informed by robust and powerful science throughout the entire legal process. In partnership with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF), UCS recently published a guide for scientists and hosted a panel discussion explored ways that experts can get involved and how to avoid common pitfalls in the courtroom.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

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.

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What’s Up With Water — April 12, 2022

Circle of Blue

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. The United Nations has released its latest report on the science underpinning the climate crisis. The UN’s climate panel focused on costs and benefits of reducing carbon pollution. The assessment outlined several strategies for keeping the global temperature from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.

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Winning Patterns in Sustainability and ESG

Environment + Energy Leader

Winning Patterns in Sustainability and ESG: How can corporate leaders adopt a more strategic approach towards ESG and ensure growth, agility, and good risk management. The post Winning Patterns in Sustainability and ESG appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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DOE’s New Hydrogen Hubs Program Comes With Risks—And Opportunities

Union of Concerned Scientists

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector. Hydrogen’s role in the nation’s clean energy transition is critically important—and constrained.

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Biden Administration Launches $1 Billion Conservation Program

Yale E360

The Biden administration has launched a $1 billion program to advance its goal of conserving 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030. Read more on E360 ?.

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Alphabet, Meta, Stripe, Shopify, McKinsey Launch $925M Carbon Removal Effort

Environment + Energy Leader

Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey Sustainability launch a carbon removal organization called Frontier. The post Alphabet, Meta, Stripe, Shopify, McKinsey Launch $925M Carbon Removal Effort appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Why Energy Conservation Will Remain Crucial

Legal Planet

If we switch to renewables, we won’t need to worry about saving energy. Right? Wrong! One reason to save energy is to limit carbon emissions from the energy we use. That’s going to important until the energy system has been completely cleaned up. But energy conservation is important for reasons that go beyond the direct effect on emissions. Before I get to the reasons, I need to explain what I mean by energy conservation and why it’s different than energy efficiency.

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

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.

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Ask a Scientist: Taking a Holistic Look at Big Ag

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS Food and Environment Program Research Director Marcia DeLonge and Senior Strategist Karen Perry Stillerman recently posted an analysis estimating how much land Tyson Foods—the nation’s largest meat and poultry processor—relied on to produce corn and soybeans to feed the 6 million cows, 22 million pigs, and nearly 2 billion chickens it processed in 2020.

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Once Rocked by Nuclear Disaster, Fukushima Is Now a Renewables Hub

Yale E360

More than a decade after a major nuclear power plant disaster, Fukushima, Japan is seeing extensive renewable energy development on abandoned lands, as satellite imagery from NASA shows. Read more on E360 ?.

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Salesforce Works Toward a Global Effort to Make Blue Carbon Projects Consistent

Environment + Energy Leader

At the Our Ocean Conference convened in the Republic of Palau, Salesforce announced a global collaborative effort aimed at driving consistent standards around high-quality blue carbon projects and credits. Blue carbon is the carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves and seagrasses, that is increasingly used by companies to offset their carbon emissions on their paths to reach.

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The laser physicist unlocking navigation technology

Physics World

When exploring an unfamiliar place, many of us default to a rather modern method of navigation: watching a blue dot move around a map, on a screen, and course-correcting to keep it on the right track. We owe this convenient technology to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) – such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Galileo and BeiDou – which regularly broadcast radio-waves from their orbits around the Earth.

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Stunning photograph shows a flower as an insect might see it

New Scientist

Debora Lombardi's image, shortlisted for the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards, uses a photography technique to show the fluorescence of flowers under UV light, revealing them as insects might see them

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Miriam Rengel – Women in space

Frontiers

Author: Leticia Nani Silva. Space has always been a massive curiosity of mine as a scientist. Despite my interests in biology and human behavior shining brighter in my career, my interest in space and astronomy has always lived in the background. This is why when I got the chance to speak to one of the leading researchers in the field of planetary science and astronomy, my enthusiastic and curiosities knew no boundaries.

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How MorningStar Farms Is Increasing Its Sustainability Efforts

Environment + Energy Leader

MorningStar Farms is delivering more than just plant-based foods. It also shows positive environmental results — made possible because of its eco-friendly packaging and its use of renewable energy. The post How MorningStar Farms Is Increasing Its Sustainability Efforts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Some cosmic neutrinos may not be cosmic after all

Physics World

Some high-energy neutrinos detected in the Antarctic ice and thought to have come from outside the solar system may have been produced in Earth’s atmosphere. That is the conclusion of physicists in Poland and Brazil, who have analysed how neutrino detections made by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory may have been shaped by the presence of heavy charm quarks within protons and neutrons.

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Mystery outbreak of hepatitis in children investigated in the UK

New Scientist

There has been a cluster of cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, among young children in the UK, which could be linked to an unknown infection

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Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

Inside Climate News

New research shows vulnerable communities need to prepare for more years like 2017-2020, with devastating storms like Harvey, Irma, Maria and Laura. By Bob Berwyn For storm-battered residents of the Caribbean, the Southeast and the Gulf Coast, new research on hurricanes is rarely good news, with recent studies showing trends toward stronger storms that intensify suddenly near the coast and maintain their strength longer after hitting land.

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Vital Pet Life Incorporates Recyclable Packaging in New Pet Food Line

Environment + Energy Leader

Vital Pet Life is incorporating recyclable packaging with its first product in its Vital Pet Life Plus line, becoming members of How2Recycle and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. The 2019 GlobalWebIndex, Sustainable Packaging Unwrapped data cites that 64% of consumers say recyclability is the most important aspect of environmentally friendly packaging. .

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Quantum batteries harvest energy from light

Physics World

Your night-mode photos might get a lot crisper thanks to a new device that exploits quantum mechanics to absorb photons more efficiently. Known as a quantum battery, the device stores the energy of the absorbed photons and can be charged simply by shining light on it — great news not just for low-light iPhone photography, but also for solar panels, which could use similar technology to capture the Sun’s energy a lot faster.

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Mercedes-Benz to Supply 70% of Energy Needs with Renewables, Halve Vehicle Emissions

Environmental Leader

By using green steel, improving battery technology and implementing renewable energy and more recycled materials, Mercedes-Benz plans to significantly reduce the carbon emissions of its vehicles. The post Mercedes-Benz to Supply 70% of Energy Needs with Renewables, Halve Vehicle Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Across the Boreal Forest, Scientists Are Tracking Warming’s Toll

Inside Climate News

Researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation from carbon sinks to carbon emitters. By Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360 This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Read the original story here.

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Bridgestone Develops Recycling Solution for End-of-Life Tires

Environment + Energy Leader

Bridgestone is partnering with Carbon Capture and Transformation company LanzaTech to develop a scaled solution for recycling end-of-life tires. The two companies will co-develop an end-of-life tire recycling process leveraging LanzaTech’s CCT technology, creating a pathway toward tire material circularity and the decarbonization of new tire production.

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Exploiting the synergy between organic synthesis and electrochemistry

Physics World

Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. Source: Shutterstock/souvikonline200521. Electrochemistry has long held potential as a tool for constructing a wide variety of organic molecules, and the organic chemistry community is both recognizing and impressively exploiting that potential with increasing regularity. Those efforts have taught us a great deal about how to think about electrochemical reactions and how to use the technique to accomplish new transformations that enrich the s

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Ag and Food Law Daily Update: April 15, 2022

National Law Center

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: April 15, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Solar, Wind Energy Demand Leads to Shortage, PPA Price Increases

Environmental Leader

Rising gas prices, supply chain issues and overall demand are creating a rise in prices for power purchase agreements. The post Solar, Wind Energy Demand Leads to Shortage, PPA Price Increases appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Honeywell’s Strengthened Sustainability Commitments

Environment + Energy Leader

Honeywell announced a new set of commitments that further advance its sustainability goals beyond the company's existing commitment to become carbon neutral in its facilities and operations by 2035. The post Honeywell’s Strengthened Sustainability Commitments appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Measuring gravity outdoors using a quantum gas, breakthroughs in materials processing and particle physics

Physics World

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, four physicists at the University of Birmingham explain how they used two clouds of ultracold atoms as a portable gravity sensor. Their device was able to locate a small tunnel on the university campus and can be used outdoors – and impressive feat because the atoms were held in ultrahigh vacuum and millikelvin temperatures.

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First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California

Environmental News Bits

by Roger Bales, University of California, Merced Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many places, and the dryness, wildfires and shrinking water supplies are making climate change personal for millions of people. As an engineer, I have … Continue reading First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California.

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Survey Finds 62% of Organizations Expect to Increase Investments in Energy Efficiency

Environmental Leader

Johnson Controls has announced findings from the 15th annual Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey, which revealed that 62% of organizations surveyed expect to increase investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy, or smart building technology in 2022, indicating a return to pre-pandemic levels. The post Survey Finds 62% of Organizations Expect to Increase Investments in Energy Efficiency appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Deloitte Investing $1 Billion in Sustainability Program

Environment + Energy Leader

Deloitte is enhancing its Sustainability and Climate practice with a large financial investment and adding a network of experts in the area. The post Deloitte Investing $1 Billion in Sustainability Program appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Machine learning creates full-colour images from infrared cameras

Physics World

Infrared night-vision systems that see in colour could be a reality thanks to researchers in the US, who have used machine learning to create colour images of photographs that are illuminated with just infrared light. The team hope their technique could be further developed to create imaging systems that operate where the use of visible light is impossible, such as retinal surgery.

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