This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Off the coast of southeastern China, one particular fish species is booming: the oddly named Bombay duck, a long, slim fish with a distinctive, gaping jaw and a texture like jelly. When research ships trawl the seafloor off that coast, they now catch upwards of 440 pounds of the gelatinous fish per hour — a more than tenfold increase over a decade ago. “It’s monstrous,” says University of British Columbia fisheries researcher Daniel Pauly of the explosion in numbers. The reason for this mass invasion,…Source: Grist, a beacon in the smog,an independent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck
Category: Theory
Plastic bottles found to harm human health at every stage of their life cycle
In 1973, a DuPont engineer named Nathaniel Wyeth patented the PET plastic bottle — an innovative and durable alternative to glass. Since then, production has skyrocketed to more than half a trillion bottles per year, driven by beverage companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé. It’s no secret that most of these PET bottles, named for the polyethylene terephthalate plastic they’re made of, are never recycled. Many end up on beaches or in waterways, where they degrade into unsightly plastic shards and fragments that threaten marine life. But blighted beaches are only the tip of the iceberg. According to a new report from…Source: Grist, a beacon in the smog,an independent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck
January 2023 Monthly National Climate Report
The January contiguous U.S. average temperature was 35.17 degress Fahrenheit, 5.05 degress Fahrenheit above the 1901-2000 average. The precipitation total was 2.85 inches, 0.54 inches above average.Source: State of the Climate Report …
Powerful AI Is Already Here: To Use It Responsibly, We Need to Mitigate Bias
As the power of AI grows, businesses, governments and the public will have to manage AI’s impact on society.Source: Taking Measure – A NIST Blog…
Brazil keeps protecting Indigenous land in the Amazon. It’s not stopping deforestation.
Even with strict regulations, protected areas are losing forest to weakened environmental policies.Source: Grist, a beacon in the smog,an independent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck…
Calculating probability of detection of short surface cracks using inductive thermography
. Source: Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal…
The US has a new pollution rule for heavy-duty trucks for the first time in 2 decades
Cleaner trucks will mean better air and health for overburdened communities.Source: Grist, a beacon in the smog,an independent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck…
November 2022 Monthly National Climate Report
The November contiguous U.S. average temperature was 40.95 degress Fahrenheit, 0.74 degress Fahrenheit below the 1901-2000 average. The precipitation total was 2.40 inches, 0.17 inches above average.Source: State of the Climate Report …
The Twelve Days of Metric
As we approach the end of 2022, we wanted to share with our readers a NISTified version of a classic seasonal song about a topic that is near and dear to our scientists year-round: the wonders of the metric system.Source: Taking Measure – A NIST Blog…
Distance and camera features measurements affect the detection of temperature asymmetries using infrared thermography
. Source: Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal…