CHESTNUT HILL, Massachusetts, March 22 (TNStalk)(TNSjou) -- Boston College issued the following Q&A on March 21, 2023, with Philip Landrigan, director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health: * * * Philip Landrigan, M.D., '63 director of the Program on Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Boston College Global Observatory on Planetary Health, is the lead author of a groundbreaking new report about the far-reaching health hazards of plastics manufacturing and pollution across   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 22 (TNSres)(TNStalk) -- The Climate Center, a climate policy organization working to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, issued the following statement on March 20, 2023: * * * Earlier today, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its AR6 Synthesis Report. The report points to "more than a century of burning fossil fuels" as the driving force behind the climate crisis, increasingly extreme weather, and instability across the g  more

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 21 (TNSpp) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release on March 20, 2023: The UN climate science body highlights the peril of accelerating climate impacts, warns of the need for rapid emissions cuts to avoid climate catastrophe, but puts dangerous negative emissions technologies firmly on the table. Today's IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report confirms that human activity has caused a level of warming that is unprecedented in the last 2,000 years. The impacts o  more

WAUKEGAN, Illinois, March 22 -- The Illinois House Democrats issued the following news release: State Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Waukegan, is fighting to safeguard fresh water resources, particularly Lake Michigan, with a bill that would require operators of coal-fired power plants to remove toxic byproducts of coal power generation to safe locations--rather than burying it in place using "ponds" which are lined and capped with concrete. "Lake Michigan is one of the largest remaining sources of fre  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is teaming with the National Energy Technology Laboratory to jointly explore a range of technology innovations for carbon management and strategies for economic development and sustainable energy transitions in the Appalachian region. ORNL Deputy for Science and Technology Susan S. Hubbard, Ph.D., and NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D  more

MCLEAN, Virginia, March 22 -- Risk Analysis, a peer-reviewed academic journal from the Society for Risk Analysis that says it features critical empirical research dealing with risk issues, published research articles, including the following topics, in its March 2023 edition: PERSPECTIVE: * Cases of real-life policies related to risk: How can they enhance risk analysis and risk science? ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * Development of a novel machine learning-based weighted modeling approach to incorpo  more

WILLIAMSON, West Virginia, March 22 (TNSper) -- Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College issued the following news: Southern WV Community & Technical College has promoted a long-time employee to the position of Chief Academic Officer/Accreditation Liaison Officer. Bill Alderman is a lifelong resident of West Virginia, Southern Alumni, and a twenty-three-year employee at Southern. He has served in several positions at Southern, beginning his career as a Program Manager in Workfor  more