Month: August 2023
Clean energy is good for the world’s health
A new study by the UN Environment Programme says that there is a need for a Science Community to support measures and actions in the climate, energy and sustainable development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study assessed 56 indicators across all 17 SDGs. It added that an international climate finance mechanism would levy fees on carbon emissions that would be redistributed through national programmes.
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The group says thatAI companies have to prove they are safe
A nonprofit group called Accountable Tech has proposed a Zero Trust AI framework for artificial intelligence (AI) to politicians and government agencies in US. It said the framework seeks “a common understanding” among artificial intelligence companies, politicians and the government of the US. It also called for large cloud providers to be prevented from owning or having beneficial interest in large commercial AI services.
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It is possible for pollution and overfishing to protect corals, but it is not enough
The coral reef in Kealakekua Bay, Australia experienced significant coral growth in the 12 years leading up to the Australian heatwave in 2019. reefs with more fish, particularly herbivorous scrapers, and lower levels of wastewater pollution experienced coral growth. The value of 250 kilograms of scraper biomass as a management target is an estimate of scrapers on a reef with strong fish stocks.
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The recovery of freshwater fauna in Europe has stopped
We ran linear mixed-effects models to synthesize site-level data and estimate overall mean trends. The models included site-level trend estimates as the response, an overall intercept and two random effects (country and study identity) as predictors. The uncertainty of the estimates of the mean trend was represented by brms 80, used to estimate the site-level trends.
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More than a decade of campaigning by Native nations led to the creation of a new national monument
US President Joe Biden has designated a national monument in Arizona’s Grand Canyon where he said, “The Grand Canyon is a national treasure and we want to protect it…as much as possible.” The monument will be called Baaj Nwaavjo I’tahveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The White House said the land inside the new monument has less than 2% of the known uranium reserves in the US.
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Russia andUkraine trade drone strikes
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it had shot down several Ukrainian drones on the Russian border and a Moscow airport had to stop flights after another one was destroyed. It was the fourth strike on the Russian capital in the last month. A woman was also killed by Ukraine shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed Mayor said on Sunday.
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Why the prosecutors want a protective order against Trump
The US Justice Department has asked for a protective order in former President Donald Trump’s criminal case related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. The order would “protect the use of information that’s provided in discovery”, a lawyer said. Trump was charged with four counts related to allegations that he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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The experts think that the LK-99 is a superconductor
A research team has discovered a new type of superconductor made from lead, which appears to have a ‘flat band’. The team used a method called’Meissner effect’ to find the structure of the new material. The material is similar to other lead phosphates and it may be the first time a superconductor has been discovered with a ‘flat band’.
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A landmark study has opened a new avenue for Black Americans to trace their ancestry
Researchers have used DNA from the remains of 27 people who were buried at the Catoctin furnace in US to link them to people in the present. They also identified clusters of people with high levels of Catoctin ancestry in the southern United States. They added that they have identified tens of thousands of living descendants in a consumer genetics database.
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Texas Medicaid’s enrollees have gone down since April
As many as 3.7 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in 41 states and the District of Columbia since the beginning of the Great Unwinding, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. Around 74% of these people are losing their coverage for “paperwork reasons”, the analysis said. Texas reportedly disenrolling 82% of its Medicaid recipients while Wyoming shed just 8% of its rolls.
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