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New low-cost camera could help scientists forecast volcano eruptions affecting millions

Frontiers

To get better long-term monitoring data, an international team of researchers has developed an SO 2 camera to continually measure emission rates from volcanoes. The new design comes with a price tag of around $5,000, reducing the cost of parts needed to build the camera down to approximately a fourth of previous models.

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

A lot of my work uses the honey bee waggle dance – an amazing behavior unique just to honey bees – as a novel tool for assessing on a landscape scale the availability of forage for honey bees and other pollinators. See the article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ). Waggle dances are visible and can be decoded and mapped.

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LGBTQ People Face Greater Climate Risks

Legal Planet

More than 1,800 people died and the price tag for the damage quickly rose to the tens of billions of dollars. The study’s authors came to these findings by analyzing data on same-sex couples taken from the 2020 U.S.

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Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold

Physics World

Perhaps it’s not surprising that demand for the machine was not exactly clamorous, given its price tag of $10m. The devices developed by IBM’s quantum- computing division have been made available for use by clients (currently more than 200,000 of them) via a cloud-based service. From the cloud to cold atoms.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

government’s best effort to fulfill a promise to the Northwest’s Indigenous people. According to our analysis, salmon populations released from 2014 to 2018, the most recent years for which complete data was available, had some of the worst survival rates on record.

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The Momentum for ESG Disclosures Continues Unabated (ESG Advisory Series, Part 3)

Arnold Porter

She asked that comments be submitted by June 13, 2021, and she encouraged commenters to include empirical data and other information in support of their comments. On March 15, 2021, Acting Chair Lee solicited public input on future SEC policymaking regarding climate-related disclosures and whether and how they should be modified.