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Yushu Xia’s Mission To Support a Healthier Planet – State of the Planet

Courtesy of Yushu Xia From a young age, Yushu Xia was keenly aware of the importance of environmental health—a passion sparked by her grandfather, a geology professor and author of popular science books who inspired her love for science and education. Today, Xia combines these interests as an assistant research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, […]
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Sovereign forests

There might be ways to harvest resources responsibly, but a cleaner option is a shift in cultural attitudes to reduce consumption among industrialised nations. Public outcry could leverage pressure on politicians to enlarge ranges for flora and fauna.  Profit Considering the waste that has resulted over the past hundreds of years by industrial societies, modern […]
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Will New Areas Uncovered by Glacier Melt Boost Swiss Hydropower and Clean Energy Goals? – State of the Planet

The Rhône glacier in the Swiss Alps. Credit: Jean-Paul Wettstein/Pexels A report from the Swiss Federal Council states that terrain newly exposed by glacier melt may allow for expanded hydropower infrastructure. Facilities in these areas could generate up to 3,900 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy annually by 2050, enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes. […]
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New EAT-Lancet Report Is a Sustainable Food Systems Roadmap – State of the Planet

Aerial view of agriculture fields at Xiachuan Island. Credit: wonry/IStock The much-anticipated second EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable and Just Food Systems has been released, building on the landmark 2019 report that first defined the “Planetary Health Diet.” Professor of Climate Jessica Fanzo served as a commissioner, while her postdoctoral fellow, Bianca Carducci, contributed as […]
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The real power brokers

Similarly, the big four professional services companies – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC – all make fortunes helping the fossil fuel industry. While they generally talk a good game on climate action, in reality, they aren’t in the business of putting major clients out of business.  Extraction Together, these firms produce a vast economic interest vested in the status quo, […]
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Water, Youth and Climate Action – State of the Planet

The Columbia Climate School is excited to announce the Ripple Effects: Water in a Warming World pre-college virtual workshop for fall 2025. Water covers over 70 percent of our planet and is essential to life—from sustaining ecosystems and regulating climate to providing the drinking water communities rely on every day. But as climate change accelerates, […]
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A century of Woodcraft Folk

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the former MP for Brighton Kemptown, started attending his local group aged six. Three decades later, having spent seven years in parliament, he has now been appointed chief executive of the charity he grew up in.  Responsibilities “It guided my most formative work” he tells me “I went into politics because of Woodcraft […]
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Columbia Will Co-Lead Major Project To Study Global Carbon Cycle – State of the Planet

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, one of the most rapidly melting glaciers in the world. Credit: James Yungel/NASA ICE via Flickr Four teams of scientists, including a team co-led by Columbia University researchers, will receive up to $45 million over five years for research that advances human understanding of the global carbon cycle driving a changing climate. […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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