In-brief analysis September 29, 2025
Two electricity markets in the Midwest still generate more electricity from coal than from natural gas in at least some months of the year:...
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California extends cap-and-trade, as Indigenous nations grapple with the trade-offs
In 2013, California launched its cap-and-trade program, a carbon credit market that allows companies and governments to engage with offset projects that incentivize investments in planting trees, preserving forests, or even supporting solar farms....
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Sustainability In Your Ear: Terracycle Founder Tom Szaky On Building A Service-Centered Circular Economy
Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. For decades, our relationship with waste has been defined by disposability and denial. The disposability of everything from coffee cups and cigarette butts to...
Read More Modelling, Vol. 6, Pages 115: Spectral Derivatives Improve FTIR-Based Machine Learning Classification of Plastic Polymers
Modelling, Vol. 6, Pages 115: Spectral Derivatives Improve FTIR-Based Machine Learning Classification of Plastic Polymers Modelling doi: 10.3390/modelling6040115 Authors: Octavio Rosales-Martínez Everardo Efrén Granda-Gutiérrez René Arnulfo García-Hernández Roberto Alejo-Eleuterio Allan Antonio Flores-Fuentes Accurate identification...
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Texas floods showed why many rural communities feel abandoned in a crisis
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Tribune. Rain was already coursing through the usually dry creek near Abraham Stallins’ home in the Texas Hill Country when a flash flood warning...
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Greenpeace activists in cages confront UN livestock conference in call for just transition from industrial agriculture
Rome, Italy – Today, over 90 environment, development, food and agriculture groups called on governments to urgently slash agricultural emissions by supporting a ‘just transition’ away from industrial agriculture to a food system based...
Read More Photonics, Vol. 12, Pages 964: Wavelength Calibration for an External Cavity Diode Laser Using a Polynomial Dual-Cosine Model
Photonics, Vol. 12, Pages 964: Wavelength Calibration for an External Cavity Diode Laser Using a Polynomial Dual-Cosine Model Photonics doi: 10.3390/photonics12100964 Authors: Suman Ai Ruifeng Kan Cheng Du Zhongqiang Yu Weiqi Xing Dingfeng Shi...
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Deposit Return Systems Help Our Planet and Your Wallet – 2025 Update
Bottle bills, also known as deposit return systems (DRS), are effective. For example, research by the British government found that countries with a return value on bottles or cans increase collection rates to between...
Read More Sustainability, Vol. 17, Pages 8730: Structural Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Convergence in OECD Countries: A Machine Learning-Based Assessment
Sustainability, Vol. 17, Pages 8730: Structural Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Convergence in OECD Countries: A Machine Learning-Based Assessment Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su17198730 Authors: Volkan Bektaş This study explores the convergence in greenhouse gas emissions...
Read More Mathematics, Vol. 13, Pages 3110: Neural Network-Based Atlas Enhancement in MPEG Immersive Video
Mathematics, Vol. 13, Pages 3110: Neural Network-Based Atlas Enhancement in MPEG Immersive Video Mathematics doi: 10.3390/math13193110 Authors: Taesik Lee Kugjin Yun Won-Sik Cheong Dongsan Jun Recently, the demand for immersive videos has surged with...
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