Environmental News Bits

APRIL 2, 2024

Via Calishat: Is your search experience leaving you a little unsatisfied? Give these Search Tweaks a try. This site, developed by Tara Calashain, has eighteen tools for enhancing Google search in four categories — Query Builders, News-Related Search, Time-Related Search, and Search Utilities.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched enhancements to an online search tool for its Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing on January 30, 2024. According to EPA, the search tool makes it easier to view and sort standards and ecolabels that EPA recommends U.S.

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2022

A new benchmark has been set in the search for hypothetical magnetic monopoles produced in the atmosphere through collisions with incoming cosmic rays. As a result, magnetic monopoles have long been the subject of theoretical predictions and experimental searches, but physicists are no closer to proving their existence.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2023

I wrote about Tara Calashain’s Search Gizmos back in April. Since then, she’s been busy creating even more gizmos to make web search easier. This list arranges them by category. They include gizmos for: Seriously, go check them out.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Tara Calashain, who writes the incredibly useful blog ResearchBuzz, has launched a new service called Search Gizmos, a suite of JavaScript gizmos to help you target your searches in specific ways. There are 57 available as of April 17 and new ones are added frequently. Some examples include: Go give them a test drive.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast astronomers discuss the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies. The post Searching for signs of alien technologies appeared first on Physics World. Astronomers are looking for the technosignatures of advanced civilizations

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A promotion for Google's AI search tool Bard shows it making a factual error about the James Webb Space Telescope, heightening fears that these tools aren't ready to be integrated into search engines

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Earth 911

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The post Earth911 Podcast: Ecosia.org’s Christian Kroll on Planting Trees With Every Web Search appeared first on Earth911. How do you reduce your digital life’s environmental impact? Making changes to reduce your environmental.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 27, 2023

Metadata helps you search for and find images of cats, for instance, whether or not you have a specific feline in mind. Read the full story at JStor Daily.

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Earth 911

JANUARY 5, 2022

The post How to Use Search Engines to Help the People and the Planet appeared first on Earth911. We’ve heard of life hacks. How about a hack for making a difference?

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big advantages, but they could also damage many industries and change the very way we interact with the web

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 5, 2022

That is, until Don Baugh, president and founder of Upstream Alliance, went in search of answers. . Search for the Cooper — A River Hidden in Plain View will be shown for free to the public at the Camden County Boathouse on October 17, from 6-7:30 p.m. . Dave Harp/Chesapeake Photos.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2023

The shallow, ill-informed junk that AI is spewing into the Web – what I call infosewage – is bad for people who are trying to perform useful Web searches.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a diverse region, thanks … Continue reading Searching the Texas brushland for a rare, temperamental plant. It feels vast and nomadic, sprawling in all directions with hundreds of thousands of acres of ranchland and – if you don’t count the cows or the main thruways along the Rio Grande – sparsely populated.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 29, 2022

Use this tool from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy to search for policies and incentives related to batteries developed for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage.

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

In Shell Beach: the Search for the Final Theory , Grimstrup explains how he had a brilliant idea on a trip to China two months after his PhD defence, and how he has since tried to convince other physicists of it. It is not so much about the search for the final theory, but about his search in particular.

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PBS Nature

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Scientists find nests of shorebirds, but they're not the only ones looking for them. Just when they think hope is lost for the next generation of shorebirds, some heartwarming scenes greet them.

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New Scientist

MAY 15, 2023

The Search for Lost Birds project has already tracked down two species on its top 10 list. But is this focus on a handful of potentially extinct birds really good for conservation?

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New Scientist

MARCH 26, 2024

Claudia de Rham thinks that gravitons, hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity, have mass. If she’s right, we can expect to see “rainbows” in ripples in space-time

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 23, 2024

Jia Liu, associate professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and … Continue reading SIU experts search abandoned coal mines for rare earth elements used in green energy

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2023

But if you opt in, a whole new search experience awaits. Read the full story at The Verge. Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection?

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Environmental Leader

MAY 21, 2021

The renewable energy industry is growing faster than ever, and, correspondingly, searches for “renewable energy stock” have spiked in recent years. Worldwide, Tesla is the most-searched renewable energy stock, with an average of 21.8 million searches each month, according to energy comparison site SaveOnEnergy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are the most popular battery in use today. First commercialized in 1991, their cost has declined by a remarkable 97 percent over the last three decades, enabling the rapid growth of mobile phones, laptops and more recently, electric cars.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 4, 2023

The MorphoLander drone carrier, which holds smaller "worker bee" drones, could be useful in search-and-rescue missions or industrial surveys

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You have just joined the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) community and you are asked to investigate the most intriguing signal of the past half century. The post A rising star in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence appeared first on Physics World. Imagine this.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When combatting complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the activity.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

EPA has launched a new search tool to connect visitors to P2 resources such as case studies, webinars, articles about P2 solutions, practices, and technologies. The tool allows searches by keyword, sector, and process type. Read more →

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Google, Microsoft and Baidu are using tools similar to ChatGPT to turn Internet searches into a conversation. How will this change humanity’s relationship with machines?

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2023

by Chirag Shah, University of Washington The prominent model of information access before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized, transparent and authoritative.

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New Scientist

APRIL 27, 2023

AI search engines like Microsoft's Bing Chat often fail to provide citations to back up statements, or cite information incorrectly - and this is more likely when answers sound more convincing

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google Bard and Baidu's Ernie Bot are set to go head-to-head with OpenAI's ChatGPT as tech giants race to combine AI chatbots with search engines

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 6, 2023

NAAQS — Searching For the Goldilocks Level first appeared on Law and the Environment. I’d also speculate that the next time EPA reviews the PM NAAQS, the only question will be whether EPA has reduced it enough; it’s not going to be considering whether the then-current NAAQS is too stringent. The post EPA Proposes to Lower the PM2.5

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2022

per lb … Continue reading Global events spur search for alternative oils. Since Ukraine’s national flower is the sunflower and the country is the leading global exporter of sunflower seed oil, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, the Russia-Ukraine war has affected supply and price.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Tara Calishain has taken her love of search engines and online information collections and mixed it with JavaScript to create ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos, an extension of ResearchBuzz (established 1998) and the ResearchBuzz Firehose (established 2015). There are some really nifty tools here.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2023

According to a new study, internet searches indicate a growing prevalence of various biophobias across the world. Read the full story from the University of Turku.

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New Scientist

JULY 21, 2022

An analysis of search results in the US and Germany found that the top 10 results from Google and other search engines differ widely

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