Minimizing Environmental Risks at Construction Sites
Avoid areas where key habitats would suffer impacts.
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“Criminal” Climate Crisis – Earth Day 2022
Perhaps by Earth Day 2022, we may know how this Supreme Court rules on the criminality of future abdication of leadership in protecting us all.
Net Zero Promises May Be Worth Zero Too
Net zero pledges make for good marketing, but even the promises that have been backed with real action haven’t measured up.
Which is Safer for Transporting Gas in Alaska: Trucks or Pipelines?
Gas is obviously flammable, and semi-truck accidents can result in considerable explosions and fires when they crash.
Climate Change is Tied to Poor Mental Health
Extreme heatwaves can have an impact on mental health
Legal Issues That Might Arise with Machine Learning and AI
While AI-enabled decision-making seems to take out the subjective human areas of bias and prejudice, many observers worry that machine analytics have the same or different biases embedded in the systems.
Regional Differences, Local Resilience
Could rediscovering and embracing our regional differences lead to big payoffs in increased resilience, even conflict avoidance, down the road?
Scientists Revive Addiction Vaccine Research
An addiction vaccine could be the answer when other treatments fail.
Norton: Making it Easier to Trash the Planet
Norton added a cryptocurrency miner to its security suite, but it could cost more in electricity than the returns are worth. Plus, it fries the planet. Yay?
COP26 Summit: From Hope to Nope
The recent COP26 meetup in Glasgow was supposedly our last best chance to take real climate action and avert disaster, but then: more blah, blah, blah.