Yale E360
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Last week, I interviewed a patient who was hospitalized for severe and persistent asthma attacks. Ms. S had been perfectly healthy until her respiratory symptoms commenced one year ago. She described her struggle to breathe on her worst days as feeling as though “an elephant was sitting on her chest.” I asked about smoking history and exposure to any potential indoor irritants (i.e. dust, mold), all of which she denied.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The state court on the cutting edge of environmental law is a long way from the major population and media centers, which may be one reason it doesn’t get much attention. It deserves more. The Hawaiian Supreme Court has been forging new paths in environmental law that may lead the way for other courts in years to come. Environmental rights. In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change.
Clean Energy Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The regulations aim to provide a legal framework for China’s carbon allowance trading market by strengthening requirements and designating responsibilities. By Hui Xu , Paul A. Davies , Jean-Philippe Brisson , and Qingyi Pan On January 25, 2024, Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed a decree of the State Council, introducing the Regulations on the Administration of Carbon Allowance Trading (the Regulations).
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
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas was once a major oil producer. Now, companies hope to extract lithium — a key metal for electric vehicle batteries — from its underground brines using technologies they say could reduce mining’s carbon emissions and water use.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. From Pulitzer-prize winning investigations to groundbreaking scholarly research , the evidence of their knowledge and deception is irrefutable. And yet, these corporations continue to sow disinformation and reap record- breaking profits.
Environmental Professionals Connection brings together the best content for environmental professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Clean Energy Law
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. By Paul A. Davies , Farhana Sharmeen , Michael D. Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has launched the Singapore Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint (Blueprint) as part of its efforts to decarbonise Singapore’s aviation sector while enabling sustainable growth.
Yale E360
MARCH 1, 2024
Indigenous people in southern Cambodia faced forced evictions and criminal charges after their ancestral lands were marked out for a carbon offset project, a new report alleges.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Chatbots vary their answers depending on the exact wording used to prompt them, and now it seems that asking an AI to answer as if it were a Star Trek captain boosts its mathematical ability
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
It seems clear that in some form, carbon removal is going to be an important component of climate policy, especially later in the century to deal with carbon levels that overshoot the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement. The problem is not with the concept but with its misuse. One of the risks that comes with such good ideas is that they provide cover for poorly conceived and badly executed policies.
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.
Clean Energy Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have made some significant changes to the European Commission’s proposal. On 5 February 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU announced that they had reached a provisional political agreement on the text of the ESG Ratings Regulation (the Regulation). The agreed text was subsequently published on 14 February 2024.
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A new study finds that boiling and then filtering tap water can remove up to 90 percent of microplastics.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Many covid-19 vaccines occasionally cause side effects such as blood clots or heart inflammation, but, overall, they appear to be beneficial in preventing heart and circulatory conditions
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
In a worst case scenario, rising global temperatures and marine heatwaves could melt enough of the Thwaites Glacier and other Antarctic ice to raise sea levels 10 feet by the early 2100s. By Bob Berwyn When he saw the 75-mile wide ice front of the remote Thwaites Glacier looming out of the Amundsen Sea for the first time in 2019, ice researcher James Kirkham felt a sense of foreboding.
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.
The Applied Ecologist
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
In this new series, we hope to promote knowledge exchange in restoration and invite restoration practitioners to share their stories: successes, failures, implementation of learnings from other places and anything in between! To kick off the series, Sydney Henderson and Dr Pip Gullett share their story from Cairngorms Connect.
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Glaciers atop Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Rwenzori Mountains in East Africa are shrinking at an alarming rate as the region heats up.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A study estimating humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific Ocean from crowdsourced photos reveals a sharp decline from 2012 to 2021 after decades of slow population growth
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
BLUE GREEN CANADA, CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES, CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS, CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK CANADA, THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ÉQUITERRE, IRON + EARTH, PEMBINA INSTITUTE, 350.org In a letter sent earlier today, twelve major climate and labour organizations called on Prime Minister Trudeau, Natural Resources Minister Wilkinson, and all parties’ House Leaders to expedite the passage of Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act,
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Ocean Conservancy
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
If you need proof that there is still plenty to discover in our ocean, look no further than the recent deep-sea expedition in South America. In January 2024, a group of scientists boarded Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) to explore underwater mountain ranges off of Chile’s coast. The team, led by Dr. Javier Sellanes of the Universidad Católica del Norte, wanted to understand the biodiversity of these little-explored seamounts.
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
A recent well blow-out in West Texas highlights the challenges of finding and plugging thousands of wells across the state. By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune IMPERIAL, Texas—Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Learning a psychological trick to overcome your brain's tendency to stop noticing things could help you love your old clothes, notice the effects of climate change and fix gender biases, says neuroscientist Tali Sharot
Scientific American
MARCH 1, 2024
A synthetic antibody marks a big step toward antivenoms that can protect against every poisonous snake near where you live or travel
NRDC
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Twenty-three environmental organizations stress that the U.K. government funding the incineration of imported Canadian wood pellets threatens climate progress.
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
A UN human rights panel calls on the UN Environment Assembly to take on “forever chemicals” at a meeting in Nairobi, citing a North Carolina PFAS plant as an example of environmental negligence. By James Bruggers In advance of a United Nations meeting next week where pollution is on the agenda, a U.N. human rights team has called out a PFAS manufacturing plant in North Carolina as a poster child for irresponsible behavior.
New Scientist
MARCH 1, 2024
With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from Stuart Turton due to hit shelves, there is plenty of great new science fiction to be reading in March
Scientific American
MARCH 1, 2024
New research demonstrates that Xolair, an injectable asthma medication, can reduce severe reactions to peanuts, milk and eggs by dulling an overactive immune response
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Appeals have been filed by 40 individuals with the Environmental Hearing Board over DEP’s permit for the Catalyst Energy, Inc.’s oil and gas wastewater injection well near Cyclone in Keating Township, McKean County. On January 25, Marcellus Drilling News reported the Department of Environmental Protection issued a permit to Catalyst Energy, Inc. for an oil and gas wastewater injection well.
Inside Climate News
MARCH 1, 2024
New research shows how last year’s warming melted ice in Greenland that increased flows of fresh, cold water into the North Atlantic, upsetting ocean currents in ways that lead to atmospheric changes. By Bob Berwyn The Arctic Ocean is mostly enclosed by the coldest parts of the Northern Hemisphere’s continents, ringed in by Siberia, Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, with only a small opening to the Pacific through the Bering Strait, and some narrow channels through the labyrinth of Canada’s Arctic
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Tap water contains tiny particles of plastic and we don’t know how they affect our health – now it seems that boiling the water for 5 minutes can remove most of them
Scientific American
MARCH 1, 2024
Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO 2
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Photo credit: WindEurope. By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by WindEurope , Europe’s wind power industry group, reveals a record-breaking year for European wind power when it comes to investments in the industry as well as installing new capacity. The report revealed a significant comeback. The wind sector having struggled in 2022 with soaring inflation, interest rates and the volatile energy markets as a result of the war in Ukraine.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
From February 17 to 23, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 494 inspection entries (four day week due to federal holiday). So far this year-- as of February 16 -- -- NOVs Issued In Last Week: 65 conventional, 2 unconventional -- Year To Date - NOVs Issued: 854 conventional and 146 unconventional -- Enforcements 2024: 59 conventional and 12 unconventional -- Inspections Last Week: 243 conventional and 335 unconventional -- Year To Date - Inspections: 1,843 con
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
It's said that the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras came up with a theory that musical note combinations sound best in certain mathematical ratios, but that doesn't seem to be true
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