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Climate Change for Energy Professionals – Part 4

Energy & the Law

Robert Ward, with the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, says Lomborg, and Shellenberger in Apocolypse Never, rely on sources that are outdated, cherry picked or just wrong, and that William Nordhaus, the 2018 winner of a Nobel Prize for his work on climate economics, advanced conclusions that omitted the biggest risks.

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A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.

HumanNature

Besides medicinal plants, other wild plants have abundance of metabolites that have negative impacts on herbivores, and pests (Gupta and Birdi, 2017; Hussein and El-Anssary, 2018; Joshi et al., and El-Anssary (2018). 2018) Plant-derived compounds in cancer therapy: traditions of past and drugs of future. Deutsch C.A.,

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). It was curated by Caitlín Doherty for the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural institute of the University of North Florida, in 2018. He photographed flooding in the U.S. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is on view through Sunday, Oct.

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Melting glaciers have been shifting the Earth’s poles since 1995, new study suggests

Physics World

Now, Suxia Liu and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a technique that uses modelling and observations from GRACE and its 2018 successor GRACE-FO to predict shifts in terrestrial water back to 1981.

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China’s Beijing Graphene Institute looks to accelerate the ‘graphene era’

Physics World

Officially opened in 2018, the BGI is committed to building a world-leading graphene R&D cluster and developing the worldwide graphene industry. According to a report in 2018, most of the companies worldwide claiming to produce “graphene”, are producing less than 10% of the graphene ( Adv. Courtesy: Beijing Graphene Institute).

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