https://news.mit.edu/2022/wave-model-ai-0429 Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves Their model’s predictions should help researchers improve ocean climate simulations and hone the design of offshore structures. Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Publication Date: April 29, 2022 Caption: Using machine learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers have found a way … Continue reading As storm surges grow, winds increase, AI is capturing the complexity of breaking waves
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Water level on Lake Mead has dropped below intake valves that carry its water to customers
https://apple.news/AGo66eocxTteURy3bOwPrAQ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/01/water-issues-worsen-lake-mead/9585175002/ 'Problems everywhere': Water so low in massive reservoir that an intake valve is now exposed Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11:07am, May 1, 2022 The emergence of an intake valve on Lake Mead this week drew attention to falling water levels there.But water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell have been falling amid drought … Continue reading Water level on Lake Mead has dropped below intake valves that carry its water to customers
Surprising afterlife of used hotel soap
https://apple.news/AvnfIPqYRTbqevdK-SZVFnA trends.co/hustle-subscription-confirmed/? The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them. Zachary Crockett April 22, 2022 One of the first things many of us do when we settle into a hotel room is reach for the packaged … Continue reading Surprising afterlife of used hotel soap
You don’t have to stop eating ALL meat — just eat less for the planet
https://apple.news/AYIBsGIooTrOabzzopT1GxA MATT REYNOLDS SCIENCE MAY 4, 2022 1:37 PM You Don’t Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet—Just Eat Less If everyone ate just 20 percent less beef, deforestation rates by 2050 could be half as bad. IN APRIL, THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dropped a gargantuan report examining how humans might mitigate the worst impacts … Continue reading You don’t have to stop eating ALL meat — just eat less for the planet
Another quirky story — lightning at 1 WTC in NYC
https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nyc-weather-one-world-trade-center-struck-lightning-rain-hits NYC Weather: 1 WTC Struck By Lightning Bolt That Shakes City Thunder shook many New Yorkers awake Monday morning as the city faces a week of wet weather, forecasters said. Matt Troutman,Patch Staff Posted Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:50 am ET|Updated Mon, May 2, 2022 at 11:48 am ETReplies (9) A bolt of lightning hits the … Continue reading Another quirky story — lightning at 1 WTC in NYC
Ocean warming and acidification could kill marine life on scale last seen 250 million years ago
/insideclimatenews.org/news/28042022/ocean-extinction-climate-change/ The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years A new study suggests that warming, oxygen-starved seas could lead marine species to vanish at a rate matching the planet’s biggest extinction event on record. By Bob Berwyn April 28, 2022 If greenhouse gas pollution remains unchecked, global … Continue reading Ocean warming and acidification could kill marine life on scale last seen 250 million years ago
COVID justification for one-use items is gone — time to reuse and recycle items again
I'm in the camp of environmentalists. What this article ignores that many of the items being consumed are made with fossil fuels or plastics made from fossil fuels. This isn't an issue of simply using less "stuff" -- it's a matter of attacking our climate crisis. https://apple.news/Aou1QzHTZSw-sXaehiWQ4Jg Happy Earth Day From Your Co-Worker Who Is … Continue reading COVID justification for one-use items is gone — time to reuse and recycle items again
How climate change has affected Greenlanders and their language
https://apple.news/A7HLsZV_8TMiigLLa5er1lQ WATER WHAT LIES BENEATH Greenland has a rich vocabulary for ice and snow. But what happens to language when those natural phenomena start to disappear? IT WAS MYsecondday in Ilulissat, Greenland’s third-largest town, and after exploring the modest center, I soon found myself on the outskirts, walking beside a broad meadow carpeted in sled … Continue reading How climate change has affected Greenlanders and their language
Wonderful articles about world’s largest animal highway crossing
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/09/wildlife-bridge-california-highway-mountain-lions? Another article including many videos of animals crossing already built wildlife bridges is here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/31/climate/wildlife-crossings-animals.html Animal crossing: world’s biggest wildlife bridge comes to California highway Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch Rendering of the Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing, which will span a busy … Continue reading Wonderful articles about world’s largest animal highway crossing
No national park nearby? Try a botanical garden instead
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/best-botanical-gardens-in-the-us These Are America's Most Gorgeous Botanical Gardens You don’t have to travel to a national park to reconnect with nature. By Matt Meltzer, and Kastalia Medrano Updated on 4/14/2022 at 1:05 PM Get back out there with a trip to a botanical garden. | Cole Saladino/Thrillist While our country has some awe-inspiring national parks, for the majority of people … Continue reading No national park nearby? Try a botanical garden instead
Apple using world’s first low-carbon aluminum in iPhone SE 3
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/24/apple-to-use-worlds-first-low-carbon-aluminium-in-the-iphone-se? Apple using world's first low-carbon aluminium in the iPhone SE William Gallagher | Mar 24, 2022 Apple plans to make the iPhone SE using low-carbon and carbon-free aluminum produced from an innovate new smelting process its $4.7 billion Green Bonds investment helped create. Apple's Green Bond projects have so far seen the company invest $4.7 billion in research projects since … Continue reading Apple using world’s first low-carbon aluminum in iPhone SE 3
Wooden skyscraper are now a “thing” — environmentally friendly, beautiful and even smell nice
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wooden-skyscrapers-are-on-the-rise-11649693924? Wooden Skyscrapers Are on the Rise Architects and builders turn to ‘mass timber’—an engineered wood product similar in strength to concrete and steel—to build multistory buildings uests at a new 20-story hotel and cultural center in Skellefteå, a former gold-mining community in northeastern Sweden, don’t have to step outside to feel immersed in the … Continue reading Wooden skyscraper are now a “thing” — environmentally friendly, beautiful and even smell nice
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