Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status.

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

If humans ever do colonize Mars, producing food will be a difficult task. While the cobalt-60 sources only emitted gamma rays, plants on Mars would be subject to several different types of radiation, which could each affect the plants differently. Chagnaud and colleagues describe their study in Current Biology.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The new rules would oblige companies to integrate their human rights and environmental impact into their management systems. The CSDDD’s key aim is to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights globally. Davies , Michael D. The rules would apply from 2027 at the earliest.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. It was devoted to subjects like oil and gas leases, the proper inflation adjustments in utility rates, and depreciation schedules for power plant. These facts make energy law central to one of the biggest issues now facing humanity. Only specialists really paid much attention.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

From hydras to humans, this short book by two marine biologists explores the peculiar process of regeneration, showing that it is a far bigger subject than it might at first seem

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2023

Information spreads around the world faster than it ever has in human history due to innovations in technology. Recently, both misinformation and disinformation have contributed to the high human health toll from COVID-19, especially among Indigenous and other Communities of Color.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

They identified small mammal remains from the Anthropocene and archaeological Holocene along a geographical area with varying degrees of human impact and examined diversity across these sites and time periods. Excellent study subjects. “We Small mammals, such as rats and shrews, are ideal subjects for spatiotemporal studies.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Scientists investigating whether this happens in teams which combine work by robots and humans found that humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and paid less attention to the work. Safety at risk?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Human health and wildlife are threatened. . In its impact assessment, the federal agency concluded the water transfer project, which will operate through the Central Arizona Project, will not have a significant effect on the human environment. The American West is experiencing its most severe drought in 1,200 years.

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Law and Environment

JULY 15, 2021

If this becomes just another in a long line of screeds on the subject that all Superfund cleanups take too long, it will accomplish nothing for cleanups in general or EJ communities in particular. More importantly, if implemented appropriately, it could help reduce the risks posed by Superfund sites in overburdened EJ communities. .

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mary Roach has a way of writing that makes any subject both interesting and fun. Her new book, Fuzz, about human-wildlife conflict is no exception

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

X-ray dark-field chest imaging – a new technique touted as the most significant advance in standard chest X-ray in 100 years – has shown for the first time that it may help diagnose lung disease in humans, according to a study published in Radiology. The team noted limitations, namely that only healthy subjects were included.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Although seasonality in animal sleep is well known, for the past 25 years we’ve assumed humans are different. In our study we show that human sleep architecture varies substantially across seasons in an adult population living in an urban environment.” Whether we’re night owls or morning larks, our body clocks are set by the sun.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2022

Most traditional fashion programs now offer sustainability courses but approach the subject inside silos — students take biology and broad offerings on “ecology and environmental problems” — while issues of neocolonialism and human rights go unexplored. Read the full story at The Cut.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The Interior Department has a rule that environmental review isn’t required for a prescribed fire of 4,500 acres, subject to restrictions that aren’t relevant here. of this chapter), normally do not have a significant effect on the human environment.” Relevant CEQ Regulations and Statutory Language CEQ (1978-2020) Definition.

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Frontiers

JUNE 24, 2021

Two distinctly different stories have been created to explain how fearsome, wild wolves were first domesticated by humans, according to Prof James A Serpell of the University of Pennsylvania. Despite being considered mankind’s best friend, the ancestors of modern dogs were a lot less welcoming to human owners.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution. Provocative?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

Nevertheless, his life is a useful lens through which to reflect on the hopes and the fears of the new nuclear age as well as the question— left unresolved—of whether human civilization will survive the destructive forces we have set into motion. Christopher Nolan adds to this body of work with his latest film, Oppenheimer.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microbial communities, or microbiomes, are essential for safeguarding human and environmental health through the most widely used biotechnological process on our planet: biological wastewater treatment. Read the full story from the University of Luxembourg.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 5, 2023

However, human bodies are not naturally suited to the sea; entering or crossing it means challenging one’s own capacities in the face of the power of water. From his writings the main point to note is that the sea is not subject to an individual’s dominion and, therefore, is also not subject to Roman governance.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 28, 2021

First, EPA published its human health toxicity assessment for “GenX chemicals,” also known as hexafluoropropylene oxide (“HFPO”) dimer acid (and don’t forget its ammonium salt!). Adding the PFAS compounds to Appendix VIII subjects them to potential corrective action requirements. There were two important items this week.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 4, 2023

On World Mental Health Day 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mental health a fundamental human right that should be accessible to everyone, regardless of location or background. In support of WHO’s mission, we have compiled a list of leading article collections advancing mental health research.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Earlier this month, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) published the findings of a seven-year investigation documenting the connection between the deliberate actions of the world’s largest carbon emitters and climate-related human rights abuses in the Philippines. Movement in US Courts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Many public health and other medical agencies have clearly declared climate change as the number one health threat in humanity’s immediate future, and because power plants burning fossil fuels are one of the leading contributors to climate change in the U.S., I care greatly about this subject.

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Facilities subject to Subtitle C have cleanup obligations if there is a release of hazardous waste at a Subtitle C facility. A RCRA unit at a facility that had a release of hazardous waste is subject to RCRA Closure. Subtitle C applies to facilities that transfer, store, and dispose of hazardous waste (referred to as TSDFs).

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

However, climate change has sucked the air out of the room leaving almost no meaningful opportunity for businesses to talk about potable water quantity and quality or humanity’s other environmental impacts, leaving businesses at risk of being single minded to the point of being subject to jeopardy.

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Nanotech

MAY 23, 2023

A second session, scheduled for June 6, 2023 , will focus on activities of agencies with regulatory responsibilities or that engage in interagency or international collaborations on the subject of micro- and nanoplastics. government agencies in tackling the challenge of plastic waste in the environment.

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Frontiers

JUNE 7, 2023

I believe that by bridging disciplinary gaps, we can gain an understanding of the human mind and its interaction with the world. When cognition is seen as a simple input-output process in the brain, it overlooks the embodied complexities of human experience and the biases embedded in AI design.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

None of us should be subjected to such a world. As part of this often arduous and extensive process, drug companies must conduct a series of animal studies and human clinical trials to provide enough solid scientific evidence to the agency that a drug is a safe and effective treatment for a disease or a medical condition.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

An ecological trap either attracts wildlife to or fails to repel wildlife from a mostly human–made situation or activity where the probability of being killed is substantially increased. Books have been written on this subject of bird declines. One very common trap is when wildlife food and cover are on opposite sides of a road.

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Frontiers

MARCH 13, 2023

By Lee G Irons , Norfolk Institute, and Morgan A Irons , Cornell University Photo of Lee and Morgan, Credit: Lee Irons and Morgan Irons Is human migration into space inevitable? Is it based on facts, or is it based upon a belief in human exceptionalism? Accomplishing the development of such capability is known as terraforming.

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Frontiers

JULY 23, 2023

When I was a high school student, I thought a lot about how human society should be. There, I studied many subjects including engineering, medicine, and social science, and after experiencing the Chernobyl accident, I finally decided to work as a researcher in the relevant field. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Not only has the subject gotten a lot more interesting because of new legal issues relating to renewable energy, but it’s been a growth area in terms of jobs. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change.

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Higher CO2 levels are good for plant life but higher temperatures have fewer benefits and subject humans to higher risks. Perhaps humans can adapt to higher temperatures with technological innovations.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I argue that research opponents raise concerns that are valid, but do not justify the actions they propose, blocking research or subjecting it to such stringent and aspirational governance requirements as to be functionally equivalent to prohibition. Research can do harm. The is where my editorial comes in.

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