Energy
COP26: More than 40 countries pledge to quit coal
Major coal-using countries including Poland, Vietnam and Chile are among those to make the commitment. But some of the world’s biggest coal-dependent countries, including Australia, India, China and the US, did not sign up to the pledge.OPEC+ members likely to hold firm on slow oil output, despite international pressure
Oil prices have hit their highest levels since 2014, and crude importing countries are feeling the pain. But despite diplomatic pressure, OPEC and its allies are unlikely to decide to open up the taps during the oil cartel’s meeting on Thursday.
Environment
An artificial material that can sense, adapt to its environment
n a recent study published in Nature Communications, a journal of Nature, researchers at the University of Missouri and University of Chicago have developed an artificial material, called a metamaterial, which can respond to its environment, independently make a decision, and perform an action not directed by a human being.
NY Says No to Voting Reforms, Yes to Environmental Right
New Yorkers approved a ballot measure adding the right to a clean environment to the state constitution but rejected other proposed amendments that could have made it easier to vote.
Health
Health systems’ trouble with vaccine mandates
An estimated 40% of U.S. health systems have instituted COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and though many are reporting high compliance, the requirements are exacerbating workforce shortages and threatening operations in others.
Why scientists worldwide are watching UK COVID infections
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has often foreshadowed what came later elsewhere. The highly contagious Alpha variant was first detected there, and the country then reported high caseloads of the more-contagious Delta strain before this variant dispersed around the rest of the world. The United Kingdom also saw a wave of infections that seems to have preceded a similar glut now sweeping Western Europe.
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