Yale E360
JULY 5, 2022
With a growing number of studies demonstrating the importance of large mammals to healthy ecosystems, scientists are proposing concrete plans to reintroduce these animals to the wild. The return of just 20 species to native habitats, they say, could be a boon to biodiversity. Read more on E360 ?.
Cleannovate
JULY 4, 2022
Everytime we sit down to eat food, we must remember that food scraps have been generated in the process. More often than not, these scraps are disposed in the dustbin or in black trash bags. But what if we choose to see this waste differently? VERMICOMPOSTING. For ages, before the advent of mineral fertilisers, our forefathers utilised a soil creature so effectively in boosting soil fertility.
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Circle of Blue
JULY 6, 2022
Lake Powell. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Colorado’s top water official weighs in the responsibility lower Colorado River Basin states have in cutting water use. A new study links childhood diarrheal disease with drought exposure in low-and-middle-income countries. India’s major reservoirs sit at critically low levels even as monsoon rains pummel parts of the country.
Environment + Energy Leader
JULY 6, 2022
Gathering immersive, ocean data via autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can assist with projects in sectors such as clean energy and national security. And they do it with little disruption to the natural ocean environment – AUVs can be deployed and managed in such a way that makes the gathering of data minimally invasive and with a very small carbon footprint.
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
JULY 8, 2022
After being driven to the brink of extinction, fin whales, the second-largest creatures on Earth, have returned to their ancestral feeding grounds around the Antarctic Peninsula. Read more on E360 ?.
Law and Environment
JULY 5, 2022
Those wondering what states can do to at least partially ameliorate the impacts of West Virginia v. EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress.
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Environment + Energy Leader
JULY 5, 2022
Worley is acquiring Minera Mining Technologies to help improve mining operations and sustainability. The post Worley Acquires Minera to Improve Mining Sustainability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Yale E360
JULY 6, 2022
Alaska is on pace for a historic fire season, spurred on by warm temperatures, a diminished snowpack, and an apparent uptick in lightning strikes. Fires have ripped through 2 million acres so far this year, roughly 10 times the total area burned in all of 2021. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
JULY 8, 2022
This edition of the Red Folder looks at some images from two science-related photography contests. Last week the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) announced the winners of its IUPAP 100 Photo Contest. First prize in the “At a glance” category went to Yuya Makino of Madison, Wisconsin, US who was a “winterover” at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Real Climate
JULY 4, 2022
This month’s open thread. Please keep to climate-related issues, stay substantive, no abuse, no repetition, one-comment per day. The post Unforced Variations: July 2022 first appeared on RealClimate.
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.
Inside Climate News
JULY 7, 2022
The push to extract materials and food from the oceans at industrial scale menaces vulnerable communities and biodiversity. By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn A globe-spanning study published Thursday outlines new, potentially unexpected threats to ocean ecosystems and vulnerable coastal communities within the next five to 10 years that will come on top of the already harmful effects of overfishing, pollution and global warming.
Yale E360
JULY 7, 2022
In a global first, Brazil's supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the court ruled, the climate pact should supersede national law. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
JULY 7, 2022
Imaging inflammation: MR images of a brain overlaid with the stick fraction, an MRI measure associated with microglia activation. (Courtesy: Silvia De Santis). Chronic inflammation of the brain is linked to a range of increasingly common degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Evidence suggests that neuroinflammation contributes to the progression and worsening of such diseases.
Frontiers
JULY 6, 2022
By Conn Hastings, science writer. Image credit: rtbilder / Shutterstock.com. Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. This phenomenon forms the inspiration for a form of robot-robot communication that does not rely on digital networks. A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret each other’s movements or a gesture from a human to communicate a geographical location.
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.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 6, 2022
by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute Prairie Research Institute (PRI) researchers and technicians may not know exactly which hazards they’ll face when they conduct fieldwork to study the natural world. What they do know is that there are plenty of dangers to prepare for as they start another field season. “The safety aspects of being … Continue reading Research fieldwork comes with safety challenges.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 5, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, STOP SPRAWL YORK REGION. One third of Council votes against the Plan. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – After a complex series of last-minute motions and closed-door sessions last Thursday that made it difficult for Councillors – let alone residents – to discern what was being debated, York Region appears to have presented Minister of Municipal Affairs, Steve Cl
Physics World
JULY 4, 2022
An axial Higgs mode has been spotted within the collective quantum excitations of a solid material. Kenneth Burch at Boston College and colleagues in the US and China, discovered the quasiparticle cousin of the Higgs boson in a relatively simple tabletop experiment carried out at room temperature. In 2012, the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider confirmed a prediction made nearly 50 years earlier about the mechanism by which some fundamental particles acquire mass.
Frontiers
JULY 7, 2022
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Scientists here study the spectra from G+0.693-0.027, a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way. They detect a range of nitriles, key building blocks for RNA, including cyanoallene, propargyl cyanide, cyanopropyne, and possibly cyanoformaldehyde and glycolonitrile, none of which had previously been found in G+0.693-0.027.
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Environmental News Bits
JULY 8, 2022
by Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara Throughout history, important cities around the world have flourished along river banks. But rivers can also be destructive forces. They routinely flood, and on rare occasions, they can abruptly shift pathways. These “channel-jumping” events, which are called avulsions, have caused some of the deadliest floods in human … Continue reading Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 5, 2022
On June 23, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a draft guidance on mitigating potential impacts of offshore wind development on commercial and recreational fishing. The final guidance document will set forth required information that lessees must submit to BOEM at each stage of a wind project, i.e., Site Assessment Plan (SAP), Construction and Operations Plan (COP), and General Activities Plan (GAP), including project-specific information on potential impacts on fishing
Physics World
JULY 5, 2022
Alternating magnetic fields can be used to rapidly convert medical waste, such as plastic syringes, into hydrogen-rich gases and high-quality graphite, scientists in China have found. This catalytic technique is more environmentally friendly and less energy intensive than other waste management strategies, the researchers claim. It might also help us dispose of other types of medical waste such as masks and protective clothing.
Frontiers
JULY 4, 2022
By Peter Rejcek, science writer. Image: YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock.com. Most people consume too much salt in their diet, leading to high blood pressure and other health issues. Researchers have discovered a novel way to enhance the saltiness, and even potentially the savoriness, of low-sodium food using electrical stimulation of the tongue through a chopstick-shaped utensil.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2022
by Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history. This … Continue reading Should we protect nature for its own sake?
New Scientist
JULY 7, 2022
A computer algorithm can use a technique called "ghost imaging" to reconstruct objects from a person's brainwaves that the person themselves can't see
Physics World
JULY 4, 2022
Everyone knew something big was coming. Students had camped outside CERN ’s designated seminar hall overnight in the hope of grabbing one of the few unreserved seats. Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. Spokespeople for the large hadron collider’s two general purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS , confirmed the rumours: both experimental teams had detected a “Higgs-like particle” and the masses were very similar.
Inside Climate News
JULY 6, 2022
Targeted grazing could reduce an invasive grass that has fueled an explosion of wildfires and threatens native species. But it’s not a silver bullet. By Emma Foehringer Merchant Cheatgrass first spread across the U.S. West in the 1800s, carried by settlers and in contaminated seed and straw. The spikey, droopy, almost hairy plant spreads like a weed, chokes out native grasses, and, once dry, lights up like kindling.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP) recently released a funding opportunity announcement for their Composting and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) cooperative agreements. Applications are due by September 1, 2022. This program provides financial assistance to municipalities, school districts, counties, local governments, or tribal governments (State-designated Indian Tribes, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal … Continue reading ISTC
Earth 911
JULY 7, 2022
This is the first in a series of five articles that help you find ways. The post Good, Better, Best: Reducing Your Transportation Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911.
Physics World
JULY 3, 2022
Philanthropic funding of science in the US is now on a par with federal research funding. That is according to an analysis of tax returns from non-profit organisations, which finds that philanthropic institutions now spend at least $30bn in total on science each year. While there has been a lot of work exploring the patterns of government science funding, not much focus has been given to philanthropy even though it is known to contribute significant sums of money for research.
Inside Climate News
JULY 8, 2022
Some areas that would normally hold 60 to 80 trees per acre now hold as many as 2,000, creating an unprecedented amount of fuel for wildfires. By Andrew Onodera Jay Smith likes to reminisce about hiking the Weatherford Trail in northern Arizona because he knows that, for much of the forest surrounding the trail, memories are all that’s left.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2022
Read the full story at Our World in Data. By the first half of the 20th century, many of Europe’s mammals had been reduced to just a fraction of their historical levels. Millennia of hunting, exploitation, and habitat loss had forced them into decline. Many had been wiped out completely. But most mammal populations have … Continue reading Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts.
Ocean Conservancy
JULY 7, 2022
“Florida and beaches” are like “peanut butter and jelly”—they just go together, a match made in heaven. Between the soft sand, unique seashells, warm waters and fascinating ocean animals, there are so many things to love about Florida beaches. One of the best perks to walking along a Florida shoreline is simple: sea birds. Florida is known as an amazing state for bird watching with a multitude of species that live there, but you don’t have to be a hard knocks bird watcher to catch a glimpse of a
Physics World
JULY 7, 2022
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the climatologist Fredi Otto explains why scientists can say with confidence that certain extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves are more likely to have happened because of climate change. Otto is at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.
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