Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,...
City lights that blaze all night are profoundly disrupting urban plants’ phenology – shifting when their buds open in the spring and when their leaves change colors and drop in the fall. New research...
View ArticleWhat’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than...
Alun Hubbard is a field glaciologist who has worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. The past few years in particular have been unnerving for the sheer rate and magnitude of change underway....
View ArticleThe new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and...
Hannah Della Bosca, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney addresses a distinct form of emerging climate denial. You may have experienced it and not...
View ArticlePete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 4, 2023
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and...
View ArticleEl Niño is coming, and ocean temps are already at record highs – that can...
During El Niño, a swath of ocean stretching 6,000 miles (about 10,000 kilometers) westward off the coast of Ecuador warms for months on end, typically by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1 to 2 degrees...
View ArticleBees can learn, remember, think and make decisions – here’s a look at how...
Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees, and an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He...
View ArticleConspiracy theories aren’t on the rise – we need to stop panicking
Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy Institute and the BBC) have been examining the kinds of...
View ArticleThe Case for AI Guardrails
Kevin Novak sets the table with his opening statement: Whatever you think about the U.S. government or our elected officials, it does have guardrails in place to protect its citizens. For pharma and...
View ArticleAI in Banking and Finance, January 31, 2024
This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on...
View ArticleClimate change is shifting the zones where plants grow
With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs...
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