PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

. -- 126 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN] -- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons See First Egg Hatches Of The Season; Connection (..)

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2024

by James Urton, University of Washington News A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity — and people are largely to blame.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. These kinds of comments are not new. The challenge for the IPCC is how to accurately promote scientific understanding of climate change in a way that resists fatalism but still makes news.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Prior to coming to Albany, he led Howard University’s Program in Atmospheric Sciences. According to a news report: “It was at an event featuring top climate modelers that Joseph attended in the early 1990s, when Washington was introduced to the audience. I was really stunned.’”

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

by Erika Garcia, University of Southern California; Md Mostafijur Rahman, University of Southern California, and Rob Scot McConnell, University of Southern California On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an “excessive heat watch” for later in the week.

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A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2024

Additionally, guidance on emission accounting for the aluminium and concrete industry, issued in March by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, has intensified carbon market activity, noted Qi Rui from China University of Geosciences, in PetroChina News Centre. In the EU , it currently stands at about USD 71.50.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia, and funders. Something we believe to be crucial in a world facing unprecedented challenges from climate change to fake news and conflict. Catch up on other news from Frontiers Dr Asli Demirgüç-Kunt joins Frontiers for Young Minds.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Image credit: Kline Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Traffic collisions are a major cause of death of endangered Texas ocelots. Image credit: Kline Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Coyote, Canis latrans. Image credit: Kline Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley American hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus leuconotus.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2024

by Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor, University of Illinois News Bureau Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 15, 2023

Read the full story at Innovation News Network. Bio-LUSH, a Horizon Europe project led by Stockholm University, will extract resources from diverse plants to create sustainable bio-based fibres.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo credit: Keith Hunter / University of Edinburgh. It’s hosted at the Advanced Computing Facility at the University of Edinburgh and it’s used on our crunchiest problems, such as climate modelling or processing health data. By Jeremy Williams Did you know that Britain has a national supercomputer?

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 19, 2024

Read the full story from Spectrum News 1 and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have identified cannabis hemp and alfalfa as candidates to help clean up PFAS. … Continue reading UW-Stevens Point researchers look to plants to solve PFAS contamination

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 17, 2022

by Hester Weaving, University of Bristol Animals can only endure temperatures within a given range. However, temperatures are rising across the world at a rapid … Continue reading Insects will struggle to keep pace with global temperature rise – which could be bad news for humans.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the largest solar project in the Commonwealth and the University of Pennsylvania will purchase all electricity produced at the sites. Related Articles This Week: -- PJM Interconnection Issues New Cold Weather Alert For Western Region Jan. 19-22 [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Extends Cold Weather Advisory Thru Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Temple University - Ambler, 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 22 -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change?

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

Read the full story at PillarQ News. Scientists from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the University of Kentucky used a quantum algorithm and simulator to study … Continue reading Quantum computing for carbon capture simulations

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 11, 2021

by Michael Grose (CSIRO), Malte Meinshausen (The University of Melbourne), Pep Canadell (CSIRO) and Zebedee Nicholls (The University of Melbourne) Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is likely (..)

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Frontiers

MARCH 6, 2023

Researchers from over 160 UK universities will continue to benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing, thanks to the renewal of JISC collections’ partnership with gold open access publisher Frontiers. It has been a landmark deal for researchers, furthering access to open science in the UK.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Read the full story from University of Illinois Extension. It took a while for this news to sink in, and after seeing it invade woodlands across southern Illinois, I finally came to terms with … Continue reading Burning bush threatens migrating birds

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 7, 2022

Marco Rubio pressured universities to cut ties with a Chinese institution affiliated with A&M's research. By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News and Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle HOUSTON—U.S. The abrupt closure of the college's climate lab came the same month that Sen. Marco Rubio in February mailed letters to 22 U.S.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This suggests that there is no universal preference for dogs based on their behavior. A team of scientists led by Dr Peter Sandøe of the University of Copenhagen decided to investigate further. “We It doesn’t therefore seem to be a universal phenomenon that people care much less about their cats than their dogs.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 30, 2023

Jaume I University has formed an institutional partnership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers.  This institutional agreement means that eligible Jaume I University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal with a simplified process. Articles may benefit  Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2023

Read the full story from the University of Illinois. A new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assessed changes in the reproductive output of 104 bird species between 1970 and 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The study was originally released in July 2023 and reported by Marcellus Drilling News and The Allegheny Front at that time. An article was published most recently by Environmental Health News on October 10. Read more here. Related Articles This Week: -- Agenda For Oct. Related Articles This Week: -- Agenda For Oct.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 23, 2021

by Scott Denning (Colorado State University) Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would make news in Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North America, and lethal floods of biblical proportions in Germany and China.

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Frontiers

JUNE 19, 2023

The University of Nova Gorica has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Nova Gorica researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A collaboration between Rice University and Tulane University in the US has developed a biomaterial which could eliminate the need for human volunteers or animal subjects in mosquito bite research. It may take time to optimize our experimental platform and machine learning model to study other species.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

The Pennsylvania Department of Health chose the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to undertake the studies The data collection for these studies concluded in September 2022. The University of Pittsburgh's public-facing website for the studies has not been updated since then. Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 6, 2022

A scientist from the University of Maine tackled one of the more well publicized — but far less understood — issues facing many Mainers: forever chemicals. Read the full story at Yahoo!

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 12, 2022

Read the full story at Environmental Health News. Pine trees are tracking airborne chemicals, according to new research. Every pine needle tested in a North Carolina State University study contained PFAS chemicals—with researchers finding more than 70 different types of the compounds.

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Frontiers

MAY 26, 2023

Credit: Frontiers Slovenian universities represented in the CTK Consortium formed a publishing agreement with Frontiers. Ronald Buitenhus, head of institutional partnerships at Frontiers, said: “This agreement celebrates Slovenian universities’ commitment to open science.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 26, 2023

by Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University As wildfire risk rises in the West, wildland firefighters and officials are keeping a closer eye on the high mountains – regions once considered too wet to burn.

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Physics World

AUGUST 13, 2021

If you happen to come across the phrase “counterfeit consciousness” in a research paper, it just might be a fake – according to an amusing news article in Nature. Moving on to a legitimate form of creative writing, Femi Fadugba did a MSc in physics at the University of Oxford and went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Read the full story at Chemical & Engineering News. Chemists from the University of Kansas have developed a machine learning tool that can detect with at least 92% accuracy when the introductions of chemistry papers are written using ChatGPT (Cell Rep. 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101672). 2023.101672).

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Read the full story from the Bangor Daily News. For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. The studies were conducted by the University of Virginia and the University of California, Berkeley. Diesel vehicles represented 5 percent of traffic through the urban areas but emitted up to half of all nitrogen dioxide pollution.

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