Circle of Blue
JUNE 6, 2022
Lake Powell is drying behind one of the Southwest’s largest hydropower plants. Glen Canyon Dam forms the massive reservoir of Lake Powell. Water in Powell is released through turbines in the dam, generating power that electrifies homes, businesses, rural coops, and irrigation pumps across six states and more than 50 Native American tribes. Photo © J.
Legal Planet
JUNE 6, 2022
A California appeals court ruled last week that bumblebees are fish and are therefore protected by the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). That may sound ridiculous, but there’s actually a convoluted legal argument to support the court. That argument does justify giving the CESA some extra coverage beyond what we would ordinarily classify as fish.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2022
Every year, as the calendar flips from May to June, I feel a sense of dread sink into my chest. By June 1 each year, the West’s rainy season is long over, hurricane season is likely to have kicked off, and the grim annual parade of heatwaves has begun. While summer is still summer and we on the climate team at UCS look forward to ice cream and late sunsets as much as anyone, there’s something we need to tell you: Climate change has transformed summer into our country’s Danger Season, and we’d be
Yale E360
JUNE 7, 2022
Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Some analysts see the technology as a necessary tool in reducing emissions, but others say it simply perpetuates the burning of fossil fuels. Read more on E360 ?.
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.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2022
In February 2017, the Mokelumne River broke through a levee and flooded this farm near Walnut Grove, California. Photo © Eric Gies. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 7, 2022. Modern societies have dramatically disrupted the water cycle. We have paved wetlands, diverted rivers, overpumped groundwater, and built levees that allow no room for streams to ebb and flow.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 8, 2022
With a focus on recyclables and efforts by industries such as food and beverage to reduce waste, the green packaging market is expected to grow quickly. The post Recycled Materials, Food Industry Drive Green Packaging Growth appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Yale E360
JUNE 6, 2022
Eastern monarch butterflies covered 35 percent more ground in the mountain forests of central Mexico this past winter than they did the year before, according to a survey from the World Wildlife Fund. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2022
This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers an unusually warm month in France, famine in Somalia, and withering wheat crops in Iraq. 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 France, May was unusually warm, and that could limit operations at some of its nuclear power facilities.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 7, 2022
Kimco Realty sought to to improve its lighting and landscaping. As it examined its processes, it also found ways to be more efficient with its energy and water usage. The post Kimco Realty Has Cut Its Water Use by 30% Since 2015. Here’s How appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Physics World
JUNE 8, 2022
A weather satellite has helped explain why the red supergiant star Betelgeuse experienced an unprecedented dimming in 2019–20. Its findings corroborate earlier studies that concluded the dimming was the consequence of a lower-temperature spot on the star, which reduced the heat going to a nearby gas cloud. This, astronomers believe, allowed the cloud to cool and condense into dust that blocked some of Betelgeuse’s light.
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.
Yale E360
JUNE 9, 2022
With its highways and suburbs, modern America was built around the automobile and powered by fossil fuels. The oil crises of the 1970s provided an opportunity to change course and move to renewable energy, but any momentum achieved then proved to be very short-lived. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 8, 2022
Belan Ruia makes every drop of water count as she washes dishes in April 2015 in her East Porterville, California, home. Like her neighbors, her well went dry during the state’s historic drought. She and her husband, Artemio, got water from a nearby fire station. Photo & copy; J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Rural California communities bear the brunt of drought.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 7, 2022
Danone North America works with local partners and updated procedures to move toward its zero waste to landfill target. The post Danone North America Works Toward Zero Waste appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Physics World
JUNE 10, 2022
A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a symmetry-protected topological state that, despite lying in the continuum radiation spectrum of a system, is unable to radiate in the far field. When supported by a photonic crystal, it is characterized by a supposedly infinite lifetime and a remarkable ability to enhance non-linear effects. Now, researchers in Italy, the US and France have utilized these properties to demonstrate polariton Bose-Einstein condensation in a planar waveguide in which semico
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.
Yale E360
JUNE 8, 2022
New Zealand unveiled a proposal Wednesday to put a price on methane from belching sheep and cattle, a plan that, if enacted, would make the country the first to compel farmers to pay for livestock emissions. Read more on E360 ?.
Inside Climate News
JUNE 7, 2022
“We can’t put this one back in the bottle,” said the researcher behind a recent study about the spread of zoonotic diseases. By Victoria St. Martin Long before the world had ever heard of Covid-19, Colin J. Carlson and a team of researchers began work on a study that explored how climate change and the destruction of wildlife habitats might affect how diseases are spread from animals to people.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 6, 2022
Temasek today announced the launch of GenZero, a wholly-owned investment platform company dedicated to accelerating decarbonization globally. The post Temasek Launches Investment Platform Aimed at Accelerating Decarbonization appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Physics World
JUNE 9, 2022
Scientists in China have released a new geologic map of the Moon that is the most detailed yet. Created by a team led by the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , the image was made using data from China’s suite of Chang’e lunar exploration missions as well as information from other international organizations. The map is to a scale of 1:2500000 and includes 12,341 impact craters, 81 impact basins, 17 rock types and 14 types of structures.
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Eco Justice
JUNE 8, 2022
The dark money behind fossil fuels Climate change is an existential threat to the future of humanity and all life on earth. But there is a clear solution to averting. Read more. The post Canada’s banks and pension funds are financing a climate disaster appeared first on Ecojustice.
Frontiers
JUNE 7, 2022
By K.E.D. Coan, science writer. Image: Maui Topical Images/Shutterstock.com. Historic wooden shipwrecks alter seafloor microbial communities, reports a recent study. There are millions of shipwrecks in the world’s oceans, each providing a potentially new habitat for sea life. Microbes form the foundation of ecosystems and this is the first evidence of how human structures impact their distribution in the deep sea.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 10, 2022
A new carbon capture platform is being developed using existing technology and infrastructure in Louisiana. The post Honeywell, EnLink Developing Carbon Capture System appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Physics World
JUNE 6, 2022
Researchers in China have synthesized a new type of high-temperature superconductor, clathrate calcium hydride (CaH 6 ). The material, which is superconducting at temperatures of 215 K and pressures of 172 GPa (1.72 Mbar), is one of best high-temperature superhydrides made to date and the only clathrate hydride outside the family of rare earth and actinide hydrides.
New Scientist
JUNE 10, 2022
During a court case about its policy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, lawyers for the UK government admitted that its strategy would only achieve 95 per cent of a legally mandated target
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 8, 2022
High gas prices should be an alarm bell signaling that we need to move away from our reliance on this volatile commodity – not entrench deeper patterns of dependency. Why are gas prices so high? Drivers are feeling the pocketbook pain from high gas prices right now. The reason gas prices are so high isn’t because of taxes – it is almost entirely driven by the rise of international crude oil prices , driven by geopolitical factors like the invasion of Ukraine. .
Frontiers
JUNE 7, 2022
Frontiers joins ‘Stick to Science’ initiative to support open scientific collaboration.? . Photo credit: Frontiers. Initiated by Universities UK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), public research university ETH Zurich, the ETH Board, Wellcome and The Royal Society, the ‘ Stick to Science’ campaign calls for an open, inclusive, and collaborative research and innovation landscape in Europe that is free from political barriers.
Physics World
JUNE 10, 2022
California-based start-up Bleximo is betting that its application-specific approach to quantum computing is more efficient – indeed transformative – in addressing highly complex practical problems across a range of industries – from global logistics and aerospace to pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, and energy production and distribution. The company, which is “powering innovation through quantum computing”, has been developing full-stack, superconducting application-specific computing system
New Scientist
JUNE 8, 2022
Around 180 million tonnes of slag is buried in heaps around the UK, and researchers are investigating whether they could be tapped to remove CO2
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 6, 2022
by Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, and the lands around them provided … Continue reading Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business.
Frontiers
JUNE 9, 2022
By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer. Image: Jenson/Shutterstock.com. A novel green recovery investment scenario has shown that a 1% global GDP investment could reduce global CO2 emissions by 6 to 8.5% by 2030. The researchers demonstrated that even a temporary stimulus package could potentially achieve a long-lasting reduction of CO2 emissions from energy production and industrial processes.
Physics World
JUNE 8, 2022
At the British Museum in London, there is a small turquoise-blue jug, originating from Egypt under the reign of the pharaoh Thutmose III. About the size of a salt shaker, the pretty opaque object was probably designed to hold perfumed oil, and is made almost entirely of glass. Yet despite being over 3400 years old, it is not considered one of the earliest examples of human glass making.
New Scientist
JUNE 10, 2022
After analysing the tissue of nearly 25,000 miscarriages, researchers found more than half were caused by randomly occurring chromosomal abnormalities, with many of the remaining losses probably being due to undetectable genetic errors
National Law Center
JUNE 8, 2022
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: June 8, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
The Applied Ecologist
JUNE 9, 2022
Associate Editor, Sharif Mukul, introduces this month’s Editor’s Choice article by Zhang and colleagues, which shows that microclimate offsetting depends on tree species identity and diversity, and that buffered forest microclimates can be achieved rapidly in young plantations, depending on the species being planted.
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