Job title of the future: Space debris engineer

Read the full story from MIT Technology Review. Stijn Lemmens has a cleanup job like few others. A senior space debris mitigation analyst at the European Space Agency (ESA), Lemmens works on counteracting space pollution by collaborating with spacecraft designers and...

The war on ESG doesn’t make sense. Least of all for taxpayers

Read the full story at Fast Company. Johannes Lenhard and Hannah Leach explain how the continued backlash against environmental, social, and governance integration in investing is frustrating because there’s a clear business case and it’s in taxpayer...

Building trust in science is a social and technological project

Read the full story from the London School of Economics. Research integrity and trust in science have made global news this year. Reflecting on the scientific norm of organised scepticism, Panagiotis Kavouras outlines how building trust in science requires commitments...

Europe Braces for a Surge in Black Market Synthetic Opioids

“The fentanyl-related overdose crisis has been largely experienced in North America. In Europe, nonmedical opioid users prefer to smoke or inject heroin. However, with the Taliban clampdown on opium cultivation in Afghanistan, drug trafficking organizations are...

What I Am Reading July 25th

In convenience food a boundless pleasure. From Wall Street’s Journal, a tale they tell, 7-Eleven’s food is selling well The FDA’s task is tough and grim. Captain Crunch, will they replace? Lobbyists’ power from days of yore. In California,...

Why Ralph Lauren is going all-in on recycled cotton

Read the full story at Fast Company. As Team USA walks at the opening and closing ceremonies, they’ll be wearing Polo shirts made by Ralph Lauren, the team’s official outfitter. The Polos look identical to the shirts the brand has become known for over the years, but...

“Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate”

“Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive.” Climate ChangeEnvironmental...

White House order flexes muscle against plastic pollution

Read the full story at GreenBiz. The Biden administration’s July 19 executive order phasing out single-use plastics marks the beginning of the end for single-use plastics, circular-economy advocates hope… The new federal order phases out all disposable plastics in...

Webinar: Catalyzing Renewable Energy Adoption Among Your Suppliers

Aug 6, 2024, 11 am CDTRegister here. Is your supplier engagement program action-oriented? Does it inspire suppliers to reduce their emissions, right now?  If not, you are not alone. Most supplier programs are more circumspect, asking suppliers to consider interim...

Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.

Read the full story at Ars Technica. Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I’ve ever written. I’m a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I live and breathe science. If...

Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitats

Read the full story from Cornell University. In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important to dozens of species of migratory birds, according to a new study.

Marathon Oil agrees to record penalty for oil and gas pollution

Read the full story in the Washington Post. Marathon Oil will pay a record $64.5 million penalty and invest an estimated $177 million in pollution-cutting measures to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at oil and gas operations in North Dakota, the...

DNA Guided Diets: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction

Although nutrition has made significant advances in recent years—such as recognizing the harm caused by trans fats—it is surprising that, even within the academic field, there is still ongoing debate about the most efficient diet. Spoiler alert: any of them can work...

“When Kamala Harris Sued Obama Over Fracking”

“A 2016 lawsuit illustrates why some activists believe Harris will be more aggressive on climate than Biden.” Climate ChangeEnvironmental HealthEnvironmental PoliticsLaws & RegulationsPollutionNational (U.S.)CaliforniaPublicSource: ,

Sun block: The promise and peril of solar geoengineering

A 2023 study published in JGR Atmospheres found that implementing a global solar geoengineering project could slow the melting of the increasingly threatened West Antarctic Ice Sheet. That’s important because last year scientists determined that climate change has...

Farm-to-Table Compassion: Saving Peppa Pig

When it comes to what’s for dinner, we seem to have a bit of selective empathy. A study in Appetite shows that children are less inclined to eat animals they perceive as having human-like traits, revealing our deep-rooted bias towards identifiable over anonymous...

How grassroots climate activists are taking on Big Tech

Read the full story at Heated. A growing climate threat from an industry worth trillions is spreading across the globe: data centers. The football-field-size buildings, which house the millions of servers that make the internet work, are not inherently evil. But their...

Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2024

Download the report. This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change...

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