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Heat adds to strains on areas with data centers, raising the temperature on AI debates
Read the full story from the Associated Press. Hot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up electricity demand for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas. The impact on communities like the racially diverse Sacred Heart neighborhood in Lowell, Massachusetts underscores why the artificial intelligence industry is feeling…
Taking a holiday break. Posts resume July 8.
In celebration of America’s 250th birthday and my daughter coming back to Illinois for a visit, I’m taking a holiday break. I’ll be back with new posts on July 8. If you’re looking for something to read in the meantime, browse the archives by topic.
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AI-powered spectrometer chip shrinks lab technology to the size of a grain of sand
Read the full story from the International Society for Optics and Photonics. See also: Ahamed, A., Myat, H., Rawat, A., McPhillips, L. N., & Islam, M. S. (2026). AI-augmented photon-trapping spectrometer-on-a-chip on silicon platform with extended near-infrared sensitivity. Advanced Photonics, 8(01). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.8.1.016008 A new AI-powered chip from UC Davis can analyze light…
Students and stewardship: Connecting with nature in a peri-urban university campus
Read the full story at The Nature of Cities. Urbanising cities in the Global South have a multitude of challenges—rapid demographic changes placing pressure on environmental resources, services, and infrastructure unable to keep pace with unplanned urbanisation, and urban sprawl creating a dystopian peri-urban landscape. Often, urbanisation is accompanied by loss of urban green and blue spaces,…
Hail is getting larger due to climate change, environmental experts say
Read the full story from NPR. Climate researchers at Northern Illinois University found that golf ball-size hail or larger will become much more common in the United States. See also ICECHIP, an NSF-funded project led by Northern Illinois University researchers that brought together more than 100 scientists and students from across the country and beyond to document and analyze hailstorms.
Place-based pathways to a viable future
Read the full story from MIT. Aiming to transition away from fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change, world leaders aspire to achieve net zero global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. But actions to meet such targets and minimize adverse impacts on lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure are not one-size-fits-all; they will…
Why P&G, maker of Bounty and Charmin, hired a forester
Read the full story at Trellis. When Procter & Gamble adopted an ambitious new pulp and paper pledge in early 2021, it hired a forester to convince suppliers to get on board. Officially, Chris Reeves is director of scientific communications for P&G’s family care business, which makes Charmin toilet paper, Bounty paper towels and Puffs facial tissues. That title downplays his master’s degree in…
When food meets fiber: How companies can boost paper-based packaging recyclability
Read the full story at Trellis. Most recyclers agree that contamination right now is a minor issue. But recyclers aren’t willing to accept any more food residue than they’re already seeing. Companies can help build alignment on food residue thresholds, clarify on-pack language to limit confusion and support consumer education.
Pollution is changing the smells of nature, with risks for wildlife
Read the full story at e360. A growing body of research shows how air pollution, fertilizers, and fungicides are altering the chemical signals that plants and animals use to communicate. Scientists warn that insect reproduction, foraging, navigation, and even the pollination of crops could be affected.
Beyond materials: Packaging technology as a tool against food waste
Read the full story at Waste360. Food protection is the primary function of F&B packaging. But amid rising environmental concerns, consumers are demanding the sector design circular and safe solutions. Every component of packaging has a part to play in protecting food and reducing waste. Conversations around barriers and coatings, paper-based, monomaterial, and recycled content solutions, are…
A new DC ‘museum’ raises awareness about the looming consequences of extreme weather
Read the full story at Inside Climate News. At the Museum of Unnatural Disasters, members of Congress, disaster survivors and activists are bringing their worries about preparedness to the seat of power.
Meet the women leading the people-powered push against data centers
Read the full story at The 19th. From Arizona to Mississippi, data centers are sprouting up at an unprecedented rate across the country, with nearly 1,500 in development. Many of these projects have been shrouded in secrecy. As community members have become aware of their size, and their massive consumption of water and electricity, they’ve begun to show up at city council meetings and mobilize…
ISO’s new net-zero standard is here: What to know
Read the full story at Trellis. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the consultation draft of a new, independently verifiable standard for corporations that make net-zero emissions commitments. The ISO Net Zero Aligned Organizations Standard (ISO 14060) started life as loose guidelines shaped by more than 1,200 stakeholders from civil society and the corporate…
For Black women farmers, tending the land is ancestral and healing
Read the full story at The 19th. Black farmers have lost millions of acres since the early 1900s. Today a generation of growers is working to rebuild and reconnect communities to the land.
Utah’s fragile desert could feel like the Sahara if America’s biggest data center gets built
Read the full story at Grist. Plans for a celebrity-backed “hyperscale” data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state’s current electricity use, have generated an intense public and political backlash in a state where the motto is “industry” and a Republican supermajority tends to be deferential to development. The project, brought by “Shark Tank” TV…
Hurricane forecasts have improved dramatically, saving lives, but federal cuts threaten to stretch NOAA resources to breaking point
One of NOAA’s WP-3D Orion hurricane hunters, dubbed Miss Piggy, flies over Tropical Storm Idalia on Aug. 28, 2023. Nick Underwood/NOAA by Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1, and while early outlooks suggest that a developing El Niño might result in a tamer season than in the past few years, with below-average hurricane…
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The U.S. Senator who won’t shut up about climate change
Read the full story at e360. At a time when other public officials and the media are talking less about climate change, Sheldon Whitehouse remains fiercely outspoken. He delivered his 307th climate speech on the Senate floor this month and is pushing back against the recent trend of “climate hushing.”