theguardian.com —  6+ hour, 40+ min ago

...Since founding Climate Cardinals three years ago to improve global climate literacy, Sophia Kianni, 21, has built a network of 9,000 young volunteers... ...Google-designed tools help 9,000 young Climate Cardinals volunteers who translate reports into more than 100 languages A network of young volunteers... ..., who is studying science, technology and society at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley.... ...By trialling Google Cloud"s new AI-powered Translation Hub platform, Climate Cardinals has translated an additional 800,000 words into more than...

sciencedaily.com —  2+ hour, 22+ min ago

...eyes were open or closed, and to track eye movements and changes in pupil size through the pigeons" transparent eyelids during sleep," explains Mehdi... ...Behroozi....

sciencedaily.com —  2+ hour, 24+ min ago

...For example, Duke Energy long stored a liquified form of coal ash in 36 large ponds across the Carolinas.... ...That all changed in 2014, when a spill at its Dan River site released 27 million gallons of ash pond water into the local environment.... ..."These results show just how complex coal ash is as a material," said Helen Hsu-Kim, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University... ...National Laboratory (DE-SC0012704)....

aol.com —  20+ hour, 4+ min ago

...Florida"s recent slew of “Parental Rights in Education” laws, dubbed “Don't say gay” by critics, doubles down on our nation"s culture wars as a strategy... ...Ron DeSantis and his minions want you to believe these laws protect the rights of all parents and children, but they don't.... ...Harvard education historian Jarvis Givens argues that when Black children are denied the opportunity to critically study Black life and culture,... ...Board"s AP course on African-American history or most recently, Amanda Gorman"s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” unworthy or lacking in educational value...

ca.movies.yahoo.com —  16+ hour, 57+ min ago

...Florida Gov.... ...Ron DeSantis has offered a consistent rationale for his attacks on higher education: Colleges and universities should not teach concepts like critical... ...Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai were organizing and inspiring millions before they graduated from high school.... ...Laura Ingraham learned that the hard way: When the Fox News host insulted David Hogg in 2018, the Parkland gun-control activist rallied teens who...

theguardian.com —  8+ hour, 25+ min ago

...why State Farm, the country"s largest property insurer, announced this week that it will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California... ...State Farm will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California – with climate-exacerbated wildfires and bad public policy a large reason... ...State Farm – which touts its own ESG commitments – is leaving California, it said, “to improve the company"s financial strength”.... ...State Farm didn't mention climate change in its announcement, of course....

theguardian.com —  1+ day ago

...a trial, according to a court filing on Sunday. 3M was scheduled to face trial in South Carolina federal court on Monday in a lawsuit brought by... ...Lawyers for chemical company say they are making "significant" progress over deal with city of Stuart, Florida US industrial conglomerate 3M and... ...Bloomberg News reported last Friday that 3M had struck a tentative $10bn deal with U.S. cities and towns to resolve the PFAS water pollution lawsuits... ...and individuals that have been consolidated in federal court in South Carolina....

theguardian.com —  3+ hour, 40+ min ago

...Arctic sea ice, research has shown, and scientists say preparations need to be made for the increased extreme weather across the northern hemisphere... ...Analysis shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are sharply reduced, the Arctic will be ice-free in September in coming decades.... ...“Unfortunately it has become too late to save Arctic summer sea ice,” said Prof Dirk Notz, of the University of Hamburg, Germany, who was part of... ...Prof Seung-Ki Min, of Pohang University, South Korea, who led the new study, said: “The most important impact for human society will be the increase...

theguardian.com —  13+ hour, 40+ min ago

...In a letter, Prof Frank Kelly and 35 other prominent air pollution scientists call on the prime minister to tell his colleagues not to endorse “merchants... ...Conservative MPs including Sunak and the former prime minister Boris Johnson have backed an increasingly high-profile campaign against the expansion... ...Its extension is being challenged in court by five Conservative councils: the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon, and Surrey.... ...At prime minister"s questions he urged the mayor of London to scrap the expansion....

theguardian.com —  2+ hour, 48+ min ago

...Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said using technologies that capture carbon dioxide or remove it from the atmosphere... ...IPPC chair Hoesung Lee says over-reliance on the technology could mean the world misses 1.5C target Over-reliance on carbon capture and storage technology... ...“CCS technologies are all part of the solutions,” he told the Guardian in an interview, at in Bonn, where preparatory talks for the Cop28 UN climate... ...Lee will step down as chair of the IPCC in late July, when a new chair will be chosen from four candidates, two of whom are women....