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- Meal kits cut food waste but packaging is a problem, study finds Fri, 15 Feb 19, 7:00amDeliveries ‘almost always’ use more energy than buying ingredients from supermarket
- Fernbach et al.: Advantages of Pre-Registration of Study Design Wed, 13 Feb 19, 7:00amGuest Essay by Kip Hansen We recently saw on this blog a guest essay from Joel O’Bryan regarding a paper from Fernbach et al. titled “Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know...
- The Guardian view on fracking: the end can’t come soon enough | Editorial Tue, 5 Feb 19, 5:23amLaunching a new fossil fuel industry was a bad idea, and a coalition of localists and environmentalists appears close to defeating itLess than four months after what was supposed to be a new beginning for fracking in England,...
- Let’s save the bees with machine learning Sat, 2 Feb 19, 5:27amMachine learning and all its related forms of "AI" are being used to work on just about every problem under the sun, but even so, stemming the alarming decline of the bee population still seems out of left field...
- Scientists create super-thin 'sheet' that could charge our phones Tue, 29 Jan 19, 3:00amBreakthrough means large sheets of energy-harvesting material can be produced
- Toxic legacy: what to do with Britain's nuclear waste – Science Weekly podcast Fri, 25 Jan 19, 5:00pmThe UK has a problem and it isn’t going to go away anytime soon. But what to do about it? This week Geoff Marsh explores two options, including plans to bury the UK’s nuclear waste deep underground
- Sustainable Ocean Alliance nets $1.5 million donation from Benioffs Thu, 24 Jan 19, 1:45amHealthy oceans are on the minds of Marc and Lynne Benioff, and they showed it today with a $1.5 million donation to the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, a new non-profit attempting to promote and incubate conservation-focused...
- Five developments in space, time and fusion Sun, 20 Jan 19, 6:00pmProjects from gravitational wave detection to viewing the Milky Way and generating thermonuclear power march aheadCern has announced plans for a Future Circular Collider...
- Seeds on the moon started to sprout for the first time but quickly died Sat, 19 Jan 19, 7:30amChina has taken a major step toward long-term space exploration. Earlier this month, the Chinese moon probe Chang’e 4 carried a container with cotton, mustard and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs to the moon’s far...
- Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study Wed, 16 Jan 19, 3:00amScientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now
- Geoengineering could solve our climate problems if anyone allowed it Tue, 15 Jan 19, 3:06amThis weekend, I finished reading Oliver Morton’s The Planet Remade (thanks to reader Eliot Peper for recommending it). Morton has a multitude of goals with the book, but there were two I think are deeply valuable. First,...
- Ion age: why the future will be battery powered Mon, 14 Jan 19, 6:00pmThe variable nature of wind and solar power means storing energy is a huge part of the fight to mitigate climate change
- What are the Implications for Climate of Recent North Magnetic Pole Activity? Mon, 14 Jan 19, 1:00pmGuest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The headline says, Scientists warn Earth’s magnetic North Pole has begun moving ‘erratically’ at speeds so fast they are having to issue an emergency update to maps used by electronic...
- Katharine Hayhoe: 'A thermometer is not liberal or conservative' Sun, 6 Jan 19, 6:00pmThe award-winning atmospheric scientist on the urgency of the climate crisis and why people are her biggest hope
- Trump Watch January 3 2019 Fri, 4 Jan 19, 1:57amDay 683: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’: US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio...