How effective are #boycotts and #divestments and what is their opportunity cost for society at large? cc: Ezra Klein Fareed Zakaria forbes.com/sites/saleemal…

Should we stop using the word ‘stakeholder’ in research? Colonial connotations and ingrained inequalities of the term, require scholars to rethink its use and take greater care with the way in which words shape attitudes and approaches to research. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

This article by Langdon Cook in National Geographic Magazine is informative but confusing. Fungi are migrating to tumors but then they are supposedly also curing #cancer through cryptic immune pathways? Also no mention of carcinogenic aflatoxins from fungi nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl…

#Audiobook May purchase discount available for my book #EarthlyOrder : How Natural Laws Define Human Life - details at cc: Oxford Academic UD College of Earth, Ocean and Environment audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

Kudos to Ana Kasparian for doing a sensible segment on #nuclearenergy on the #YoungTurks #podcast - here is a summary article on the #sustainability implications of #nuclearpower I wrote some years ago that summarizes pros and cons communities.springernature.com/posts/nuclear-…

Did you miss I Heart UD Giving Day?! There is still time to contribute! Please consider supporting #environmental #science majors for paid research internships. The link is active until 5 pm TODAY! UD College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware Alumni #Sustainability #IHeartUD

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Impressive meta analysis of 500+ diversity studies osf.io/preprints/psya…. Four takeaways

1. Small Effects: Cognitive, Demographic, and Job Related Diversity have small average effect sizes.
True enough, but outperforming by 2-5% means winning.

Infrastructure will bear 60% of the cost of #climateadaptation - with estimated costs between 40 to 150 billion dollars annually worldwide - estimates from FEMA

Excellent start to 60th anniversary workshop of Univ. of Delaware #Disaster Research Center with codirectors providing history of field and the move towards #Moonshot problem-solving

#Podcast related to my book “Soil to Foil” - quite imaginatively produced in their new series “Elements of Surprise” by Taylor Quimby and friends at NH Public Radio cc: Univ. of Delaware Columbia Univ Press Prof. Katharine Hayhoe podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out…

This study calcs. CO2 from AI-generated text vs. human-generated text.
'AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated cprd. to humans'

It comes across as an #LCA study but it is not.
Sabine Hossenfelder Edgar Hertwich International Society for Industrial Ecology

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Finally! The “Global Resources Outlook 2024 – Bend the trend: Pathways to a liveable planet as resource use spike” is out now here: bit.ly/42VDttm

The #GRO24 by the IRP has been years in the making and we could not be more excited to share its insights with you!

Congratulations to friend Jonathan Overpeck for being elected to National Academies today - well deserved honor. Fondly remember visit to his house in Tucson and then our collaborative workshop on an anthology related to minerals in Perth many years ago.

Look out for my interview with @Saleem_Ali discuss some policy trade-offs on matters clean energy generation on 01/05/2024. Subscribe to sheilakhama.com/podcast/ to receive an alert on this series.
#RenewableEnergy
#CleanEnergy
#EnergyTranstion
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Congratulations to UD Professors Rodrigo Vargas and Deborah Allen, who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the largest scientific societies in the world.

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Feel fortunate to have been a panelist at this year's LLF #LLF2024 in New York as well as in #Lahore - Asia Society did a great job hosting event yesterday - great to join Shazia Rafi on #ClimateCrisis panel

My first visit to #SouthAfrica was in 1995 - one year after end of apartheid to do research for my Masters thesis at Yale School of the Environment on water security in the region. It remains one of my favorite places to visit regardless of challenges #SouthAfrica 30 🇿🇦💚☮️

Every day, we’re inspired by our founder Ted Turner and his commitment to smart global philanthropy.

Read more about his enduring impact from ☮️ Saleem H. Ali for Forbes.

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Simply appalled by The New York Times for going after @npr and Katherine Maher in such a vicious way - this is a cynical attempt to placate their own radical critics by running with the hares and hunting with the hounds cc: ian bremmer Nicholas Kristof Eric Lipton Fareed Zakaria

It was the hottest March on record as global temperatures over the past 12 months soared past pre-industrial levels.

Analyst Saleem Ali ☮️ Saleem H. Ali explains the implications of this trajectory for life on our planet. #Heat #climatechange #globalwarming