Yale E360
DECEMBER 20, 2021
As scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other "proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions, prolonged droughts, and other disturbances in the natural world. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. Boats on the shore of Lake Chad in 2014. Photo © EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid / Flickr Creative Commons. One hundred thousand people are displaced after ethnic clashes broke out in northern Cameroon earlier this month.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2021
While the administration strengthened its proposal and has helped course correct an industry that had pushed for rolling back these critical standards, we know that this is just the first step, and the next round of standards will be pivotal in achieving a more sustainable passenger vehicle fleet.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 23, 2021
One of the Christmas classics is the Jimmy Stewart movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. George Bailey, Stewart’s character, is despondent about his life but then learns how much he has unknowingly helped others and how grateful they are. It’s heartwarming, if also a bit corny. There’s a flip side to that story: the need to remember how much others have contributed to our own lives.
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
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a study. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 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 Iraq, an ongoing drought is causing widespread hunger and forcing people to migrate. They’re leaving the countryside for the cities in search of work. That’s according to a report from the Norwegian Refugee Council.
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New Scientist
DECEMBER 23, 2021
El Salvador's attempt to become the world's first state to adopt bitcoin as legal tender hits another stumbling block as hundreds of citizens claim that funds are disappearing from their accounts
Physics World
DECEMBER 22, 2021
In keeping with our festive tradition, the December episode of Physics World Stories is all about physics books. Host Andrew Glester is joined by Physics World ’s reviews and careers editor Laura Hiscott and the magazine’s editor-in-chief Matin Durrani to discuss a handpicked selection of popular-science books reviewed in 2021. One of the year’s most memorable titles is Hawking Hawking: the Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 22, 2021
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than anywhere else in the world, a new study finds. Nearly 300 people report becoming ill after swimming in polluted U. K. waterways. The State Emergency Services isn’t preparing some New South Wales residents adequately for potential flooding, they say. Salinity levels in the Great Lakes are rising, according to a new study.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Workers at Tyson Foods got a raise and a bonus in 2021, but that doesn't make up for the dangerous and dehumanizing conditions they face every day.
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.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Four months after hospitals collapsed in Cuba due to skyrocketing covid-19 case numbers, the country has rolled out its own vaccines and cases are down to 5 for every 100,000 people
Physics World
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Building a mirror the size of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) 6.5-metre primary isn’t a problem per se. Building a 6.5-metre mirror that can fit inside an Ariane 5 rocket fairing just 4.57 metres wide, without being too heavy to launch into space – well, that is a problem, and the task of solving it fell to NASA’s Lee Feinberg , who leads the telescope’s optical team.
Frontiers
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Kamila Markram, CEO and Co-founder. A year ago, I wrote about the strength of the human spirit that saw all of us come together as we rose before the challenge in front of us. Twelve months on, while COVID-19 remains a significant challenge to us all, more than eight billion vaccine doses have been administered to people around the world. 55% of the world’s total population have now received at least one dose of a vaccine.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Science helps keep us safe, even as Omicron looms over our holiday season.
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.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 22, 2021
For the first time, grafting has been made to work in monocots, a type of plant including oats, wheats and bananas – and it might improve disease tolerance among these important crops
Scientific American
DECEMBER 23, 2021
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will travel to a special spot where the gravity from Earth and the sun is balanced. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Few mathematicians during the last century – perhaps only Bertrand Russell and Alan Turing – were as successfully polymathic as John von Neumann , the subject of the biography The Man from the Future: the Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya , a science writer and former medical researcher with training in physics and protein crystallography.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Pushing back on fossil fuel industry power.
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New Scientist
DECEMBER 24, 2021
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Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 18, 2021
A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod Inside the “black box” recovered from an airplane crash, investigators can find out everything that led up to the mishap, piecing together weather conditions, mechanical failures and the dialogue between the pilot, the copilot and the control tower, to figure out what went wrong.
Physics World
DECEMBER 20, 2021
This year, researchers have once again had to deal with conferences going virtual and bouts of working from home. But that hasn’t stopped the medical physics community from continuing to develop and investigate advanced healthcare techniques and tools. Alongside ongoing efforts to help detect , analyse and prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 2021 has seen also the introduction of novel cancer treatments, advances in diagnostic imaging technology and innovative new biomedical devices.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2021
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New Scientist
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Large-scale in Norway finds the evolutionary fitness of wild Altantic salmon is being damaged after they breed with escaped fish from the country's huge aquaculture industry
Frontiers
DECEMBER 22, 2021
We are pleased to announce the first edition of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Editors Awards. With these Awards, we are highlighting the members of our Associate Editors and Review Editors Boards, who have gone above and beyond in the past year. They have been instrumental in the growth of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering. This was achieved by safeguarding the quality of the articles published this year during peer-review, as well as by suggesting and leading article collections in the jour
Physics World
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Because the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) operates in infrared light, stray thermal emissions from the Sun, Earth and even the spacecraft itself could cloud its vision. To keep them out, mission scientists designed an intricate, tennis-court sized sunshield that is quite unlike anything NASA has attempted to deploy in space before. The sunshield comprises five layers, or membranes, of an aluminium-coated polymer called Kapton that is widely used in space exploration thanks to its stability a
Environmental Leader
DECEMBER 20, 2021
The final piece of a large renewable energy project that includes both wind and solar power farms has been completed by ENGIE North America and Hannon Armstrong. The post Large Renewable Energy Project Bringing 2.3 GW of Power Completed appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Dogs seem to understand the basic way objects should behave, and stare for longer if animated balls violate expectations by rolling away for no obvious reason
Scientific American
DECEMBER 22, 2021
In some members, a longing for “simpler” times is giving rise to deadly activities. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Of the four instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), three – the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) , the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) – operate at near-infrared wavelengths of 0.6 to 5 ?m. For them, the telescope’s general, solar-shielded operating temperature of 36 K is cold enough.
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) isn’t listening to people and communities. . Last week the Ministry concluded three online Public Information Centres (PICs) to supposedly gather input from people who would be impacted by Highway 413, a proposed mega-highway in the Greater Toronto Area. Instead, the project’s corporate consultants repeated tired inaccuracies, explained away legitimate concerns, and created only the illusion of collecting and considering feedback.
Breezometer
DECEMBER 22, 2021
As colder months set in and increasing rates of COVID-19 infection make healthy indoor air a matter of global urgent priority once again, many schools are rushing to ensure their classroom environments are safe for students and staff alike. Understanding COVID-19 Transmission & the Indoor Air Quality Connection. According to the EPA , coronavirus infection occurs mainly through airborne transmission.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Public health specialist and physician Camara Phyllis Jones talks about ways that jobs, communities and health care leave Black Americans more exposed and less protected. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
DECEMBER 18, 2021
A new device that uses magnetic levitation to emulate the reduced gravities found on celestial bodies such as the Moon and Mars is 1000 times larger by volume than previous systems of its kind, paving the way for more complex Earth-based tests of low-gravity environments – including growing small plants in simulated microgravity. The new simulator, which was developed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University in the US, will also enable researchers to per
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