Policy & Ethics

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-May-2025 17:09 ET (6-May-2025 21:09 GMT/UTC)

24-Apr-2025

The 3rd International Conference on Smart Electrical Grid and Renewable Energy (SEGRE 2025)

ELSP
Meeting Announcement

The integration of smart grid technology and renewable energy sources has become crucial for sustainable development. Following the success of SEGRE 2024, SEGRE 2025 continues to serve as a premier platform for global researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to exchange cutting-edge ideas, showcase innovations, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. This conference aims to bridge theoretical advancements with practical applications, addressing challenges and opportunities in renewable energy and smart grid technologies.

24-Apr-2025

Global South cities hold key to unlocking healthcare solutions – studies show

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Most people living in cities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries can reach primary care clinics within 30 minutes – yet average quality of care remains poor with clinicians failing to make correct diagnoses or implement appropriate treatments, new studies reveal.

Journal

The Lancet Global Health

24-Apr-2025

More power grid connectivity in western U.S. could supercharge clean energy

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego offers a first-of-its-kind look at how deeper coordination among Western U.S. states could lower the cost of decarbonizing the electric grid—and speed up the clean energy transition.

Journal

Nature Communications

24-Apr-2025

Human pressure most affecting Atlantic Rainforest deer density, study finds

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The most robust estimate ever made in the biome shows that hunting, predation by domestic dogs, livestock diseases and competition with wild boars are among the main anthropogenic influences. Scientists used an innovative method involving trained dogs and fecal DNA analysis.

Journal

Journal of Applied Ecology

Funder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

24-Apr-2025

Study shows 90% metal pollution drop in Adirondack waters five decades after the clean air act

University at Albany, SUNY
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published by researchers at the University at Albany has presented the first documented evidence that Adirondack surface waters made a near full recovery from metal pollution since the enactment of the Clean Air Act.

Journal

Environmental Pollution

24-Apr-2025

AMS report and statement: "America's economic leadership is at risk"

American Meteorological Society
Reports and Proceedings

As federal science agencies, including NOAA, face catastrophic cuts, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) today released a Statement and Special Report on the U.S. Weather Enterprise, highlighting agencies' foundational role in supporting public safety, private sector operations, national security, and vital infrastructure.

24-Apr-2025

Study of ‘spatial synchrony’ using long-term data exposes ecological trends and could boost conservation, farming

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Kansas in Ecology Letters reveals the study of spatial synchrony over a long enough timescale leads to better testing of ideas, improved statistical results and new conceptual realms for understanding ecology, conserving species and farming more profitably.

Journal

Ecology Letters