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ERA Science Board Member Arthur Gossard Assists Great Solar Efficiency Breakthrough

Arthur Gossard, an ERA Science Board member, as well as a professor in the Materials Department and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently involved in a breakthrough discovery at the University of California Santa Barbara. The team...

ERA Science Announces Energy Storage Focus for 2014 Prize

We at Environmental Research Advocates are excited to announce that the focus of the 2014 Energy Prize will be in the field of energy stoarge research.We, along woth the world's science and energy communities, believe that finding a more efficient method of energy...

Conservation International CEO and ERA Science Board Member Gathers Leaders for Annual Gala

Conservation International’s Chairman, CEO and ERA Science Board member Peter Seligmann hosted the 18th annual Los Angeles dinner in Beverly Hills last Thursday to honor renowned Los Angeles attorney Skip Brittenham’s commitment to the environmental...

ERA Science Board Member Steven Cohen Weighs In: The President’s Climate Policy Should Focus on Renewable Energy R&D

In a guest blog post for the Huffington Post, ERA Science Board Member and Executive Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Steven Cohen advocates for more of the federal budget to be spent on improving renewable energy technology. Read his blog post to...

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Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science
First up on the podcast, we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the tricky problem of regional climate prediction. Although global climate change models have held up for the most part, predicting what will happen at smaller scales, such as the level of a city, is proving a stubborn challenge. Just increasing the resolution […]
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research
First up on the podcast, Online News Editor Michael Greshko joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about stories set high above our heads. They discuss capturing fungal spores high in the stratosphere, the debate over signs of life on the exoplanet K2-18b, and a Chinese contender for world’s oldest star catalog. Next on the […]
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’
First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the strange metal state. Physicists are probing the behavior of electrons in these materials, which appear to behave like a thick soup rather than discrete charged particles. Many suspect insights into strange metals might lead to the creation of […]

Expert Insights

To Protect Amazon from Drug Traffickers, Title Indigenous Lands, Report Says
Drug traffickers are violently seizing Indigenous lands in the Peruvian Amazon to clear rainforest and grow coca. To combat the drug trade, a new report calls for titling Indigenous territories along major trafficking routes. Read more on E360 →
Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of the impact.Read more on E360 →
Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths
Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — from painting stripes to using artificial intelligence — to keep birds safe.Read more on E360 →

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