Last year, China banned plastic waste imports as part of an initiative to clean up its environment. Yeo told a press conference that one UK recycling company had exported more than 50,000 metric tonnes of plastic waste in about 1,000 containers over the past two years. Malaysian Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Yeo Bee Yin shows samples of plastics waste shipment from Australia on May 28, 2019.

VANCOUVER – With nuclear power facing an uncertain future in many countries, the world risks a steep decline in its use in advanced economies that could result in billions of tonnes of additional carbon emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Without policy changes, advanced economies could lose 25% of their nuclear capacity by 2025 and as much as two-thirds of it by 2040, according to the new report, Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System. “Electricity market design must value the environmental and energy security attributes of nuclear power and other clean energy sources.

It turns out, Google has randomly disabled the modern YouTube experience for users of the new Microsoft Edge. And when you try to manually access the new YouTube from youtube.com/new, YouTube simply asks users to download Google Chrome, stating that the Edge browser isn’t supported. So it’s very odd that Google would prevent users of the new Microsoft Edge browser from using the modern YouTube experience.

Credit: University of British Columbia

Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are conducting a multi-year investigation into cold fusion, a type of benign nuclear reaction hypothesized to occur in benchtop apparatus at room temperature. Operating as a “peer group” with a stringent internal review process, the team started out by vetting previous claims of cold fusion, which have not been pursued in mainstream academic research for the past 30 years. If cold fusion could be realized, the heat released by this process might offer an attractive option for decarbonizing the global energy system.

The Right Honourable biggerthancheeses was kind enough to contribute a more gentrified suggestion (and has some interesting ideas, particularly around replacement of “include()” with something like “i_might_be_partial_to()”, demonstrating a natural talent for the Imperialisation of programming languages):

Words fail me at this point. This new block, although more verbose, is vastly more polite and upbeat:

Perhaps nothing is as important and ingrained in the British psyche as the notion of class and, while there are few opportunities for change within this part of PHP, the changes that there are to be made here are important. It is hoped that these few simple changes will improve the reputation and status of PHP among other languages.

Starting in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA plan to fly research planes over more than a dozen naturally occurring wildfires in the region, collecting data on how smoke plumes rise from a blaze. (The US National Science Foundation funded research flights over about 20 wildfires that summer, to study how the smoke chemistry evolved over time; those data are still being analysed.) Just as meteorologists have improved their predictions of severe weather in recent decades, fire scientists are now trying to improve their predictions of how smoke spreads so that people can prepare themselves, says Susan Prichard, a forest ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Last year, China banned plastic waste imports as part of an initiative to clean up its environment. Yeo told a press conference that one UK recycling company had exported more than 50,000 metric tonnes of plastic waste in about 1,000 containers over the past two years. Malaysian Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Yeo Bee Yin shows samples of plastics waste shipment from Australia on May 28, 2019.

Greening of China and India

NASA

NASA has some good news, the world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. In contrast to the perception of China and India’s willingness to overexploit land, water and resources for economic gain, the countries are responsible for the largest greening of the planet in the past two decades. If the greening was primarily a response from climate change and a warming planet, the increased vegetation shouldn’t be limited to country borders.

The mathematician, Bernhard Riemann, wrote a paper in 1859, which used the techniques of analytic number theory, to study the primes in an entirely new way. Riemann discovered a remarkable fact: the location of the zeros of the Zeta function encodes the distribution of the prime numbers. Riemann, in a sequence of remarkable mathematical arguments, derived a formula for Chebyshev’s prime staircase in terms of the zeros of the Zeta function:

We can ignore the log(2π) constant term, since it quickly gets swamped as we ascend the number line.

A small tool that could store, version, retrieve, and format our application configurations in order to keep sync between coworkers and environments. This release introduces a new command ( ) and improves the command in order to let you read or update a subset of a configuration:

You no longer need to fetch the configuration file, open it with your IDE, update that one flag and update the full version of the file. The previous version already had a command, showing the latest changes in the configuration.