Новости за 05.05.2024

Manila (AFP) May 2, 2024
Fourth-grader Ella Araza sat on a tiny plastic box in her Manila slum home, trying to finish her homework before the afternoon sun sent temperatures soaring to unbearable levels. The Philippines shut down more than 47,000 schools nationwide from Monday, as the temperature in Manila crossed a record high, clocking 38.8 degrees Celsius (101.4 degrees Fahrenheit) at the weekend. Over 7,000

Marchouch, Morocco (AFP) May 2, 2024
In the heart of sun-soaked Morocco, scientists are cultivating a future where tough crops defy a relentless drought, now in its sixth year. "Look at these beautiful ears of wheat," said Wuletaw Tadesse Degu, the head of wheat breeding at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA). "The difference in quality between our field and others is striking," he said

Paris (AFP) May 3, 2024
The United Nations said Friday it had introduced new rules to allow people harmed by projects under the global carbon credit market it is designing to file a formal appeal. Under the Paris climate agreement, the UN was tasked with creating a credible mechanism to allow for the trade in credits earned from projects that reduce or avoid carbon dioxide emissions. These projects could for ex

London, UK (SPX) May 06, 2024
Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have identified a significant shortfall in global carbon dioxide removal efforts needed to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5 C warming limit. The study, a collaborative effort led by the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, was published in Nature Climate Change. Since 2010, the UNEP's annual emissi

Paris (AFP) May 2, 2024
The world's largest carbon credit programme Verra took a step toward working under a new quality standard aimed at helping rebuild confidence in the scandal-hit offsets market. Verra was approved "after making significant changes to its procedures", said the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), which governs this nonbinding label for the sector. A Washington DC-base

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
A recent study reveals that U.S. households using gas or propane stoves are exposed to unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), significantly impacting indoor air quality. Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Professor Rob Jackson, the senior author of the study published on May 3 in Science Advances, expressed surprise at the findings. "I didn't expect to see pollutant concentration

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
Recent research from Michigan State University has revealed significant overestimations in the carbon-capture potential of reforestation models. The study, led by Professor Runsheng Yin from the Department of Forestry, suggests that these models, pivotal for assessing reforestation's role in mitigating climate change, could be off by as much as three times the actual capability. "The clima

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
The narrative of a childless future, once relegated to dystopian fiction, resonates eerily in today's societal context, where declining birth rates present a quiet crisis. In response, University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists Michael Platt and Peter Sterling investigate the roots of this trend in their recent publication in Nature Mental Health. They attribute the phenomenon not to biological

Washington (AFP) May 2, 2024
Japan and India are struggling economically because they are "xenophobic," US President Joe Biden told a campaign event, lumping the American allies in with rivals China and Russia as countries rejecting immigrants. "Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan in trouble? Why is Russia in trouble? And India? Because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigrants," Biden said on

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 03, 2024
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has made public a substantial open dataset from its collection. This dataset is composed of approximately 3 million unique location images, doubling to 6 million with revisits, and is designed to enhance the training of AI foundation models. Each 384x384 pixel image contributes to the overall 900 Gigapixels, covering diverse land uses, objects, geographies, and sea

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 03, 2024
Einstein's theory of general relativity describes gravity as a result of space and time curving. This theory accounts for the Earth's gravity, which anchors us and causes objects to fall. In contrast, high-energy physics investigates subatomic particles that follow the principles of quantum mechanics, notable for their random fluctuations and the inherent uncertainty in particle positions

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an advanced stretchable electronic skin (e-skin) that could potentially give robots and other devices human-like touch sensitivity. This innovation overcomes the limitations of existing e-skin technologies which lose sensing accuracy when stretched. "Much like human skin has to stretch and bend to accommodate our movements, so

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
The longstanding saying, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," has been quantitatively validated by researchers at Northwestern University using principles of statistical physics. Scheduled for publication in Science Advances on May 3, the study revisits social balance theory, first posited by Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider in the 1940s. This theory posits four fundamental rules for so

Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 06, 2024
Researchers at The University of Adelaide have developed a model that delineates the most economical approach for transitioning Australia's electricity grid to full renewable energy. Led by Raheel Ahmed Shaikh, the team investigated various scenarios involving the integration of solar and wind energy across Australia's eastern and western grids. Their analysis incorporated elements like short-to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2024
On May 1, 2024, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) hosted the third workshop of the High DER Future Grid Study, which assembled stakeholders and experts virtually to develop solutions for enhancing grid operations with a high volume of distributed energy resources (DERs). The workshop aimed to align California's grid modernization initiatives with its climate and equity goals.