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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing. Many developing countries wanted to include social, legal, ethical, human rights, geopolitical and security dimensions – and governance – in the remit of the ‘repository’ (or any assessment process).

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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Slovenian CTK Consortium signs national deal with Frontiers

Frontiers

Besides academic library functions, CTK works as an information center for the broader scientific community in the fields of technological and natural sciences. Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open.

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Drexel Helps Set Climate Resilience Research Agenda for Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences

Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University have partnered with the City of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and other local organizations to create a new and unique collaboration to develop ways to make the Philadelphia region more climate resilient.

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Water Resources Assn. Of Delaware River Basin Announces 2023 Award Winners

PA Environment Daily

. -- Special Recognition Award: The Academy of Natural Sciences for their continued contributions to the Delaware River Basin with an innovative environmental justice mapping tool developed by scientists from the Academy’s Patrick Center for Environmental Research (PCER) to prioritize green stormwater infrastructure investment within underserved Philadelphia (..)

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Women Voices on Climate Change, Part 2

Academy of Natural Sciences

Here is the second and final post in the series which is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences. I see possibility in the youth who have stood up and taken on governments and industry to demand change and are not backing down. For the next eight responses, read on.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. Courtesy: National Archives at College Park). 16 e2004956 ).