Speaking at a wind industry conference held by the American Clean Power Association, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced plans by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to arrange seven offshore lease sales along the U.S.’ coastlines by 2025, in line with the Biden administration’s executive order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home…
Interior Secretary Haaland Tells Wind Industry Wind Turbines May Soon Line US Coasts
October 14, 2021
admin
Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementDeb HaalandEnvironmentExecutive BranchGermanyInterior DepartmentOffshore Wind PowerPolicyPoliticsScienceThe Vineyard Wind projectUSVineyard Windwind industrywind powerwind turbines
0 Comment
Graves Amendment Recognizes Pipelines’ Value as Fish Reefs
October 14, 2021
admin
congressDebbie DingellEnvironmentfishingoil and gasoil and gas pipelinePoliticsred snapperreefRep. Bruce WestermanRep. Darren SotoScienceUniversity of South AlabamaUS
0 Comment
In the midst of contentious debate over the markup of Rep. Brownley’s (D.-Calif.) H.R. 2643, which would assess an annual fee on oil and gas pipeline owners of $1,000 per mile in shallow water and $10,000 per mile in deep water, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed an amendment to the bill from Rep….
Strongest Quake Since Volcano Erupted Shakes Spanish Island
MADRID—A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands in what was the strongest recorded temblor since volcanic eruptions began 26 days ago, authorities said Thursday. The quake was one of around 60 recorded overnight, Spain’s National Geographic Institute said, as the Cumbre Vieja volcano continued to spew fiery rivers of lava that are…
NASA Satellite Data Support ‘Shockingly Large’ Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Effect
A new paper from Columbia University’s Charles A. Taylor and Wolfram Schlenker that used NASA satellite data has shown that anywhere from 10–40 percent of improvements in key U.S. crop yields since 1940 could potentially be attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to human activity. The authors noted that their findings are “on the…
NASA Satellite Data Support ‘Shockingly Large’ Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Effect: Study
A new paper from Columbia University’s Charles A. Taylor and Wolfram Schlenker that used NASA satellite data has shown that anywhere from 10–40 percent of improvements in key U.S. crop yields since 1940 could potentially be attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to human activity. The authors noted that their findings are “on the…
Conservation Panelists See Bipartisan Wildlife Bill as Tool to Preserve Threatened Species
October 13, 2021
admin
animal conservationanimalscongressConservAmericaConservationDebbie DingellEnvironmentMissouriNational Wildlife FederationPoliticsRecovering America's Wildlife ActRep. Jeff FortenberryScienceSen. Roy BluntUSUS NewsWildlife
0 Comment
ConservAmerica hosted a webinar Oct. 12 to discuss the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), which would add nearly $1.4 billion in funding to wildlife conservation-related programs, helping to keep species off the endangered species list. It would provide $1.3 billion per year to a new ‘Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Subaccount,’ supplementing, but not replacing,…
Academic Freedom Relegated to the Dustbin of History
October 12, 2021
admin
academic freedomAustraliaclimate changeeducationEnvironmentfree speechfrench model codeIntellectual FreedomOpinionPeter RiddScienceUSViewpointsWorld
0 Comment
Commentary The High Court Of Australia has now unanimously rendered its judgment in the Peter Ridd case. The facts of the Ridd case are well known. James Cook University sacked Peter Ridd, a physics professor, in 2018 for criticising his colleagues’ research on the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Professor Ridd went public with…
UN Biodiversity Conference Begins in China
October 12, 2021
admin
biodiversityChinaclimate changeConvention on Biological DiversityEnvironmentextinctionGeorge Soroshuman rightsInternationalInternational RelationsSciencethe Biden administrationUnited NationsWorld
0 Comment
Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming in the country identified as the world’s largest polluter, the People’s Republic of China. Coming shortly before the United Nations’ scheduled Climate Change conference, the meeting takes place at a time when extinction rates among animals are…
Make Hydrogen in Summer to Power Britain in Winter, Networks Say
The UK could store enough power in underground reservoirs during the summer to get it through winter in the future, according to a report which backs hydrogen technology. The Energy Networks Association said that by using the spare electricity generated by wind and solar farms during the summer to create hydrogen, the UK can meet…
Energy From Bogs: Estonian Scientists Use Peat to Make Batteries
TARTU, Estonia—Peat, plentiful in bogs in northern Europe, could be used to make sodium-ion batteries cheaply for use in electric vehicles, scientists at an Estonian university say. Sodium-ion batteries, which do not contain relatively costly lithium, cobalt, or nickel, are one of the new technologies that battery makers are looking at as they seek alternatives…
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta