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AI-induced pollution could kill hundreds, cost billions, researchers say. By Troy Wolverton | SFO Examiner staff writer | Feb 11, 2025
The rapid pace and complexity of Arctic change demand new and strengthenedA rctic adaptation and global reductions of fossil fuel pollution. December 2024
Twila A. Moon, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Richard L. Thoman; Editors
Cynthia Garcia; NOAA Coordinating Editor
Sandy Lucas; NOAA Federal Advisor
Scientists warn of 'urgent need for action' against bitcoin surge — here's what's happening
Mike Taylor Yahoo News, Sat, December 14, 2024
New data center considered along Wallingford's Muddy River watershed as opposition mounts
By Christian Metzger, Staff Writer CT Insider, Oct 22, 2024
Dear Friends,
We're trying to get our new middle school lesson plan on Bird Migration & Light Pollution into as many classrooms across Connecticut as we can—and we need your help to make it happen.
If you know any science teachers or administrators in your town’s middle school, please share this curriculum with them and encourage them to bring it into their classrooms. It meets the NGSS state requirements, so educators can teach it with confidence.
>> Here's the link to download the full lesson plan for FREE: www.lightsoutct.org/lessonplan
Research shows that studying environmental science can significantly enhance middle school students' attitudes toward the environment, helping them understand their impacts and what communities can do to support healthy ecosystems. Inspiring young minds to protect nature is our goal!
(From Lights Out CT)
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste By Almaas Masood and Ananya Bhattacharya, 20 August 2024 Rest of World • Mekaguda, Telangana, India
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
While the tech world has been flying high on a wave of optimism over all the potential applications of AI, booming demand for the technology is increasingly straining energy resources. One simple search on ChatGPT consumes almost 10 times more electricity than one on Google. Charles Pellegrin speaks to Mary de Wisocky, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco, a major US-based company that provides data centre products and services.
The big environmental costs of rising demand for big data to power the internet PBS NewsHour, June 22, 2024
What it's like living 400 yds from Meta's massive datacenter .. Zuckerberg doesn't want you to see this! YouTube/perfectunion April 2024
Are your internet habits killing the planet? The internet is quickly becoming a major contributor to climate change. Here's how to understand the problem—and what can be done to fix it. Arielle Samuelson heated.world May 28, 2024
Mussel shells off Connecticut's coast are getting less dense. Here's why scientists are concerned. By Vincent Gabrielle, Staff Writer April 27, 2024 The Register Citizen Torrington CT
Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump AP News By MATTHEW BROWN March 28, 2024
This map shows known locations of State and Federal Listed Species and Critical Habitats in Waterford, CT. Information on listed species is collected and compiled by the Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB) from a variety of data sources . Exact locations of species have been buffered to produce the generalized locations.
One of Oregon’s smallest utilities is suddenly among the state’s biggest polluters. Why? Amazon data centers
AP News-Science Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, UN report says By CHRISTINA LARSON February 12, 2024
Terrestrial ecology of Millstone Point April 1973
Prepared for Northeast Utilities Service Company, Hartford, Connecticut
Prepared by Environmental Analysts Incorporated, Garden City, New York
A survey of the terrestrial flora and fauna of the Millstone Point, Connecticut, area during the period 1971 to 1973. [During this time, Millstone Unit l, a nuclear-powered generating plant, is presently operating on the site. Unit 2 is under -construction, and a construction permit application for Unit 3 has been submitted.] [NB Although there are a lot of "probably" and "may/might be" preludes to existence of listed wildlife, this survey is worth reading if only to provide a foundation for later, neutral studies of the area.]
Anthropogenic noise affects insect and arachnid behavior, thus changing interactions within and between species October 2021, Science Direct, Volume 47 October 2021, pgd 142-153
Land and Water Resources Division Regulatory Districts
Coastal Boundary Waterford, CT
Data center is proposed for land that is habitat for state and federal listed species:
Natural Diversity Data Base Areas Waterford CT DEEP December 2023 NOTE: This map, intended for use as a preliminary screening tool for conducting a Natural Diversity Data Base Review Request, shows known locations of State and Federal Listed Species and Critical Habitats. Information on listed species is collected and compiled by the Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB) from a variety of data sources . Exact locations of species have been buffered to produce the generalized locations.
Proposed data center lies within 100 year flood zone: Q3 Flood Zone Data Waterford, CT
Proposed site has some poorly drained soil area: Soil Drainage Class Waterford, CT
Proposed site is on Wetlands: CT Inland Wetland Soils
Coastal management regulations are applicable: CT DEEP Coastal Permitting
The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Steven Gonzalez Monserrate|MIT PhD candidate February 14, 2022. Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.