🌎️ It's Time To Peak Livestock Emissions

Welcome to the week.

It’s officially spring, and also it’s my birthday today. Congrats, we did it!

Now to the news.

This week:

• 🌊 The first US ocean carbon removal project

• 🛣️ Climate injustice in the Infrastructure Law

• 💊 Ramifications for restricting mifepristone

• 🤖 AI-generated research papers

• And more

Have a great week,

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💦 Food & Water:

• 🌎️ Environmental and agricultural scientists say global emissions from livestock need to peak before 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C (and before 2025 in high-income countries…so that’s *checks watch* right about now then, perfect)

• Spring came early this year, which means that trees are blossoming earlier too. What does that mean for your fruit?

• The first ocean carbon removal (small-scale) project in the US is going ahead off the coast of North Carolina

• 🌏️ Water shortages in India are threatening its tech hub

⚡️ Climate change:

• Over half of spending in Biden’s Infrastructure Law is allocated to expanding freeways, which will further displace Black communities and intensify climate impacts, according to Transportation for America

• 🌍️ Kids in countries like South Sudan are already having their education jeopardized by climate impacts

• 🌏️ Climate impacts like extreme heat and flooding are also taking a toll on the health of pregnant people

• The EPA has new rules limiting carbon pollution emissions from new cars and trucks, following EV policy passed in the EU and China

🦠 Health & Bio:

• Scientists are still working hard to better understand Covid, from how the virus behaves and evolves to the effectiveness of vaccines

• The Supreme Court’s ruling on tightening restrictions to an FDA-approved abortion pill could have wider ramifications throughout the pharmaceutical industry, possibly impacting IUDs, HIV prevention pills, emergency contraception, and vaccines

• Ethical questions about psychedelic research from the famed researcher, Dr. Roland Griffiths, are coming to light after his death

• 🌏️ Countries are being hit hard with dengue epidemics. A Brazilian startup wants to solve that by using drones to release sterile male mosquitoes

👩‍💻 Beep Boop:

• Intel is getting $8.5 billion from Biden to fund the construction of chip plants on American soil

• 🌏️ Will AI save us or bring about our demise? Researchers can’t seem to agree

• 🌍️ Seems like everyone’s using AI text and image generators, including scientists to help them write research papers. What does that mean for science?

• The growth rate forecast of power in the US is expected to jump 81% over the next five years due to AI demands

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