by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Stephanie Warren Drimmer just published a science book for kids, “Ultimate Book of the Future: Incredible, Ingenious, and Totally Real Tech That Will Change Life as You Know It.” For ages 8-12, the book covers the cutting-edge technologies that will build...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Writing for Mongabay, new member Liz Kimbrough (@lizkimbrough_) writes about new research that shows that while shade-grown coffee won’t support all bird life, set-asides of intact, non-agricultural forests by coffee plantations help preserve more species of birds,...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Nicholas Turner (@nickturner217) writes for the Seattle Times about how the region’s latest heat wave has forced Washington to confront the impacts of climate change. Rather than being rare events, stretches above 90 degrees are now a part of Seattle’s...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
John Roach (@byjohnroach) writes for Microsoft about how hydrogen fuel cells could provide emission-free backup power for data centers. He visits a hydrogen generator in New York state, where shipping containers house the 3-megawatt fuel cell system that recently came...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In an op-ed for Wired, Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) writes that Russia should be held liable for the environmental harm it is causing in Ukraine, though the international legal and political systems don’t make that easy. Morber explains how Ukranian scientists have been...