Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Column: Disneyland just promised electric cars at Autopia. Gas will be gone by 2026—Disney had previously committed to ditching gasoline engines but left ...

+ California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water —California has set a limit for the toxic heavy metal hexavalent chromi...

+ Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?—News that Midwestern dairy cows may have become infected with avian fl...

+ California farming area placed on probation over declining groundwater and sinking land—California's water board has for the first time put a farming region o...

+ The EV market is in trouble: The latest sign is Tesla's layoffs—The drive to electrify personal cars in California has, at best, hit a...

+ Former California State Parks employee seeks $4 million in discrimination lawsuit—Angel Alba, who worked at Malibu-area state parks, alleges his supervi...

+ Damage found inside Glen Canyon Dam increases water risks on the Colorado River—Newly discovered damage in Glen Canyon Dam would require releasing les...

+ Red state coal towns still power the West Coast. We can't just let them die—Los Angeles, Portland and other progressive cities are still powered b...

+ L.A.'s water supplies are in good shape. But is the city ready for the next drought?—Current conditions are promising, but L.A. must maintain its ethos of ...

+ 'Nobody saw this coming'; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu—As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are...

+ Broken and unreliable EV chargers become a business opportunity for L.A.'s ChargerHelp—The women who started ChargerHelp are driven to succeed and to train a...

+ Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines—Officials have decided to ban salmon fishing on the California coast f...

+ Surrogate otter mom at Long Beach aquarium is rehabilitating pup 'better than any human ever can'—The pup could become Aquarium of the Pacific's first surrogate-raised ...

+ Explosive levels of methane have been detected near a Berkeley landfill-turned-park—Environmental regulators have found explosive levels of methane in a p...

+ SoCal will see spike in water rates, taxes to cover rising costs and conservation efforts—The Metropolitan Water District, which delivers imported water to Sout...

+ Federal EPA limits toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water—The EPA has issued federal limits on dangerous "forever chemicals" in ...

+ And the heat keeps coming: Global temperature record broken for 10th month in a row in March—With an average surface temperature of 57.45 degrees, last month was w...

+ This SoCal hazardous waste facility could get a new permit despite past violations—Environmental and community groups want the state to turn down Phibro-...

+ As fish deaths increase at pumps, critics urge California agencies to improve protections —Environmental groups are urging water managers to scale back pumping u...

+ California moves to ban the use of paraquat, a powerful weedkiller—Assembly Bill 1963 would sundown the use of the herbicide paraquat, wh...

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+ Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01037-...

+ Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking — some ‘rapidly’—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01149-...

+ Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01156-...

+ Burnt remains of Maya royalty mark a dramatic power shift—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01075-...

+ Violent volcanoes have wracked Jupiter’s moon Io for billions of years—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01138-...

+ AI’s keen diagnostic eye—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01132-...

+ Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick—Nature, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01118-...

+ This water bottle purifies your drink with energy from your steps—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01074-...

+ AI and robotics demystify the workings of a fly's wing—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01122-...

+ DNA glycosylases provide antiviral defence in prokaryotes—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07329-...

+ Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07263-...

+ Methane emission from a cool brown dwarf—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07190-...

+ Stepwise activation of a metabotropic glutamate receptor—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07327-...

+ The economic commitment of climate change—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07219-...

+ Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07297-...

+ Refining the impact of genetic evidence on clinical success—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07316-...

+ Seismological evidence for a multifault network at the subduction interface—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07245-...

+ Biogeographic response of marine plankton to Cenozoic environmental changes—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07337-...

+ Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07309-...

+ Network-level encoding of local neurotransmitters in cortical astrocytes—Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07311-...

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+ Marina Silva on Brazil's Fight to Turn the Tide on Deforestation—Reprising her role as Brazil's environment minister, Marina Sliva is d...

+ Greece to Expand Protected Waters, End Bottom Trawling—Greece plans to create two large marine parks and end bottom trawling,...

+ Where the Xerces Blue Butterfly Was Lost, Its Closest Relative Is Now Filling In—More than 80 years after the iconic Xerces Blue butterfly vanished fro...

+ Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees—In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined to...

+ Study Reveals Vast Networks of 'Ghost Roads' in Asian Rainforests—An extensive analysis of satellite imagery has uncovered thousands of ...

+ With Sea Turtles in Peril, a Call for New Strategies to Save Them—Marine biologist Christine Figgener gained global attention with a vid...

+ Biggest Corporations Falling Short on Climate Goals—Many of the biggest and richest businesses on Earth are coming up shor...

+ Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe's Last Wild River—Albania’s Vjosë River is known as Europe’s last wild river, and its pr...

+ Potent Heat-Trapping Gases Being Smuggled Into Europe—Smugglers are illegally moving refrigerants into Europe that, when lea...

+ Entries Invited for the Eleventh Annual Yale Environment 360 Film Contest—The eleventh annual Yale Environment 360 Film Contest is now accepting...

+ A Nuclear Power Revival Is Sparking a Surge in Uranium Mining—A push for nuclear power is fueling demand for uranium, spurring the o...

+ Noisy Summer Ahead for U.S. as Dueling Broods of Cicadas Emerge—This month will see swarms of big, noisy, chirping cicadas begin to em...

+ Despite Official Vote, the Evidence of the Anthropocene Is Clear—When a governing body of the International Union of Geological Science...

+ Unexploded WWII Bombs Have Grown More Dangerous Over Time—Long-buried bombs leftover from World War I and World War II have beco...

+ Polar Ice Melt Is Altering the Rotation of the Earth, Affecting Timekeeping—The Earth is spinning slightly faster than it was a few years ago, but...

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