CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following statement on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual Arctic Report Card (https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/) today. The report release is much anticipated given scientific agencies are already projecting 2024 will be the hottest year on record. Notably, the last 18 years have marked the lowest 18 for annual minimum sea ice extent in  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 10 -- The Broad Institute issued the following Q&A on Dec. 9, 2024, with Sami Farhi, director of Spatial Technology Platform: * * * By Leah Eisenstadt Sami Farhi, director of Broad's Spatial Technology Platform, describes how the group, launched in late 2022, supports scientists who want to study cells and tissues with spatial context. As a young researcher-in-training at Harvard, chemical biologist Sami Farhi helped develop an innovative technology that can vi more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and global sustainability challenges, issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Regulators continue the implementation of impactful measures but still lag global peers * * * A new scorecard released today shows how 10 federal financial regulators have implemented hundreds of actions in the last 18 months to add more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 -- Fairplay, an organization committed to helping children thrive and ending marketing to children, issued the following statement on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Fairplay welcomes the Social Media Victims Law Center's (SMVLC) complaint against Character.ai, which includes the allegation that a chatbot convinced a child to kill his own family. The suit comes just weeks after another SMVLC complaint documented how a Character.ai chatbot convinced a child to take his own l more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization charged with managing the power grid for 65 million people across 13 states, filed changes to its rules yesterday in response to a complaint to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) co-sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The complaint against PJM sought to prevent the repeat of a $12 bi more PR