Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations. Now, an ethical, moral and legal debate is emerging: do we have the right to a stable climate?
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Only 5 percent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal Northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Earlier this month, California’s Legislature passed a slate of bills that cover a range of environmental and climate issues. Among those was Assemblymember Lori Wilson’s AB 779, a bill we helped create to improve the groundwater adjudication process for all water users. Adjudications legally determine groundwater rights but can take years and cost millions of dollars.
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. This increasing awareness and improved knowledge is encouraging, but there are also some common interpretations which could be more nuanced. Here are two examples, polar amplification and extreme rainfall.
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
While all of us are susceptible to the effects of pollution, children, infants, and fetuses in utero are uniquely sensitive to pollutants as their young brains grow and develop. Special protection from pollutants is needed because of the speed and timing of brain development early in life, before and after birth. In her book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind , science writer Harriet Washington makes the case that environmental assaults on the d
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Land-based wind turbines kill as many as 880,000 bats a year, wiping out so many threatened bats that at least one species could soon become endangered without preventative action, according to a recent study.
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Energy & the Law
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Co-author Katherine Sartain* If you are scoring at home, count Permico Royalties LLC v. Barron Properties, Ltd. , as a win for “floating” in the fixed-or-floating royalty battles. Permico, successor to grantors in a 1937 Deed for a tract in Ward County, argued that a mineral reservation was of a ½ floating royalty interest. Barron, successor to grantee and owner of the mineral estate subject to the reservation, claimed that the deed reserved a 1/16 fixed royalty.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system. Whether you call it updating, modernizing, or reforming, changes to the water rights system have long been considered a political third rail —the electric kind you don’t touch. This year, one of those water rights bills, Senate Bill 389 (SB 389) made it through the gauntlet of the legislature and will become law if Governor Newsom signs it.
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
After sampling the skies over two Japanese mountains, scientists have found microplastics in the clouds.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). As I noted in my introductory post on the Commission, I served as an advisor to the Secretariat and my students in the UCLA International Climate Law and Policy Clinic provided research and analytic support to the Secretariat.
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
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
This annular solar eclipse will only reveal its full glory to a select few, but onlookers across much of the Western Hemisphere can catch a partial glimpse of the dazzling phenomenon
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we started referring to the period between June and October in the Northern hemisphere as “Danger Season” in 2022. But summer 2023 was when the climate crisis got real for a lot of people. We all felt some impact of it—blistering heat, unprecedented flooding, oppressive wildfire smoke, extreme drought, or some combination—and farmers and farm workers felt the effects in particularly damaging ways.
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
In a blow for the hopes of antigravity machines, the first ever test of how antimatter responds to gravity confirms it falls down, not up
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.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet. The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. Countries in the Global South that are barely emitting any heat-trapping emissions have felt the impacts of this struggle acutely, despite countries like the United States and China accounting for nearly 40% of cumulative global carbon pollution.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
The well, in Plum Borough near Pittsburgh, is a repurposed conventional well, which locals fear is at higher risk for leaks and material failures that could contaminate local drinking water. By Jake Bolster The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week approved a permit for a toxic fracking wastewater disposal well named Sedat 4A, a highly controversial project in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, rejecting residents’ concerns that leaks from the well could migrate and pollute other wells
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Three genes are turned off to make carrots produce high levels of alpha and beta-carotene, which make them a rich source of vitamin A and give them their orange hue
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.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
NRDC
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
NRDC teamed up with Chef Tom Colicchio to highlight liability protections for food donors because food is made to be eaten and should not end up in landfills.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
A new report finds aluminum manufacturing worldwide emits more than a billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, as well as chemicals called perfluorocarbons that warm the planet for 50,000 years. By Phil McKenna Aluminum is crucial for a clean energy economy, but its production is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions as well as toxic air and water pollution, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project on the “paradox” of aluminum.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Well-preserved artefacts found in a Spanish cave show that advanced plant-based crafts were practised in Europe 9500 years ago
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
by Mark Freeman As you may know by now, Thorold City council voted unanimously against Northland Power’s proposal to build a new gas plant in Thorold. Or as I like to think of it… the people of Thorold: 1, Energy Minister Smith: 0. While I support numerous campaigns related to biodiversity loss and climate change, I usually feel like I want to do more.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
In Yellowstone National Park, the reintroduction of the gray wolf in the 1990s has helped reduce an exploding elk population, which in turn helped save plants along streams and rivers, which provide habitat for migrating birds, building materials for beavers, and dam ponds for fish and frogs.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
A quantum engine that works by toggling the properties of an ultracold atom cloud could one day be used to charge quantum batteries
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Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Something incredible happened in New York City last week, as world leaders gathered for the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit. This wasn’t the first of these summits – but it was the first one that focused on the concrete actions governments are taking to phase out fossil fuels. For decades national and international climate plans and climate talks have avoided an obvious, but politically challenging truth: since fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis, we must phase them out.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The potential gains for Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio have not been clearly spelled out, and the science is being challenged, as the Department of Energy prepares to announce the builders of six to 10 federally funded hubs across the country. By Jon Hurdle PITTSBURGH—As the federal government nears a decision on which of the nation’s proposed “hydrogen hubs” will share up to $8 billion in startup money, critics of the idea in the Appalachian region are asserting that the program would do
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Philosophers have wrestled with the question of whether we are truly free to decide on our actions for centuries.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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