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Before Beijing: A Rare View of China's Last Dynasty (20 photos)  

In May of 1870, Thomas Child was hired by the Imperial Maritime Customs Service to be a gas engineer in Peking (Beijing). The 29-year-old Englishman left behind his wife and three children to become one of roughly 100 foreigners living in the late Qing dynasty's capital, taking his camera along with him. Over the course of the next 20 years, he took some 200 photographs, capturing the earliest comprehensive catalog of the customs, architecture, and people during China's last dynasty. On Thursday, an exhibition of his images will open at theSidney Mishkin Gallery in New York, curated by Stacey Lambrow. In addition, descendants of the subjects of one of his most famous images, Bride and Bridegroom (1870s), will be in attendance.

 
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Mayors Will Play Their Part in Delivering on the Paris Agreement  
During Climate Week NYC and the UN General Assembly in New York this week, the international community marks the ratification of the Paris Agreement by 60 countries. It now seems likely that the Paris Agreement will enter into force before the next major gathering of the UN on this issue, COP22 in Marrakesh. Nation states remain committed to delivering on their ambition to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius - and cities have a key role to play, as partners to nations and regions, as innovators, and as leaders.

For nearly two decades, the United Nations' international climate change negotiations were largely diplomatic affairs, punctuated by prominent heads of state offering ambitious rhetoric that remained largely that. And yet even as these conversations stagnated, a revolution was underway at the local level.



Mayors in cities around the world realized that they increasingly commanded the world's capital - both economic and human - and their decisions held global significance - especially when it came to climate change. Through collaboration, swapping ideas and the sharing of technical expertise, city leaders began making sustainable decisions that also benefited the local economy and protected the long-term health of their citizens.

It is because of this proven track record of success that cities had a critical role to play at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris last year, which many in the international climate community heralded as the last chance for an international climate agreement under the UN process.

In the lead-up to COP21, cities began to receive global recognition for not only committing to climate action, but also providing tangible examples of successful solutions. As countries began to announce their INDC commitments in anticipation of COP21, cities developed the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Emissions, a parallel measurement and reporting framework based on the same methodology used by the IPCC. Under the Compact of Mayors - which will merge with the Covenant of Mayors in January to become the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy - cities began making their own data-driven commitments, measuring their results and tracking progress.

By the time of the negotiations last year, hundreds of mayors had formally joined the effort. U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo convened more than 1,000 mayors, local representatives and community leaders at the Climate Summit for Local Leaders, making a powerful statement about city support for an international climate agreement. Indeed, it was subnational actors that helped provide much-needed cover for national governments to forge the ambitious international Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Cities continue to be a bright spot in the global climate conversation, implementing solutions on the ground and enabling greater and more ambitious action by their national governments.

After the international mobilization for climate action that characterised much of 2015, nations turned to the challenging task of building the policies, programmes and investments needed to achieve their intended commitments. And mayors turned quietly back to what they had been doing all along: making sound economic and environmental decisions that best served their constituents. C40 celebrates some of the most innovative of these projects each year at the annual C40 Cities Awards, which will be held this December in Mexico City.

Of course, mayors' hard work is far from complete. C40 research shows that fully one third of the world's remaining safe carbon budget could be determined by urban policy decisions made before 2020. With help from networks like C40, cities are continuing to accelerate climate action and pursue more ambitious climate goals. Though cities certainly face barriers - particularly with respect to financing urban sustainability projects - C40 and our partners are devising pathways to overcome them, through mechanisms like the Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative and the C40 Finance Facility, which could unlock up to $1 billion worth of sustainable infrastructure in cities across low and middle-income countries by 2020.

And increasingly, mayors are looking beyond environmental and economic health to become champions of social inclusivity. C40 Chair and Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes, for instance, used the Olympic Games as an opportunity to revitalize blighted neighbourhoods, expand services to underserved communities and connect the city's periphery with its centre through smart, transit-oriented development.

C40 Chair-Elect and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Mexico City Mayor Miguel Mancera, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and other mayors around the world are declaring car-free days in their cities' iconic avenues, creating accessible temporary public parks open to all citizens. Women mayors in particular are becoming champions of their gender, expanding education opportunities and making cities safer places for women and girls.

For nations, the next step forward is for enough countries to formally ratify the Paris Agreement to ensure it comes into effect as soon as possible, ideally within the year. For mayors, the next major step is the biannual C40 Mayors Summit 2016, the world's foremost gathering of political, business and intellectual leaders focused on forging a resilient, low carbon urban future.

This year, the C40 Mayors Summit will be held in Mexico City exactly one year after COP21, and will offer mayors of the world's largest and most influential cities the opportunity to collaborate directly with elected officials at all levels of government, prominent NGO leaders, executives from Fortune 500 companies and - perhaps most important - each other.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post to mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or, officially, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"). The SDGs represent an historic agreement -- a wide-ranging roadmap to sustainability covering 17 goals and 169 targets -- but stakeholders must also be held accountable for their commitments. To see all the posts in the series, visit here.

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You can see fracking's impact on Earth's surface from space  
Fracking can cause the ground to rise a change visible from space, which can now be used to predict where frack-induced quakes might strike  
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Cameras Reveal the Secret Lives of a Mountain Lion Family: Filmmaker Q&A with Sharon Negri  

From Persecution to Coexistence: An Image Makeover for America's Lion

Article by Rucha Chitnis

This summer, America woke up to the unequivocally endearing footage of five mountain lion kittens born in the Santa Susana Mountains, just north of Los Angeles.  They made national headlines. “They nailed their Hollywood-area debut with adorable hisses, deep blue eyes and darling little claws,” wrote Karin Brulliard in the Washington Post.

This rousing reception is atypical for mountain lions in the United States, who have been in dire need of a new publicist. “When mountain lions make the news, it's typically for train-wreck coverage,” observed Dr. Rick Hopkins, a conservation biologist in California. “Most people have strong feelings about large predators,” he said. Sharon Negri, director of WildFutures, who has devoted the past 30 years to the protection of these big cats, concurs. “This fearsome portrayal of America's apex predator as solitary, vicious killers has also beset the animal with unfounded misconceptions,” she says.

Negri is acutely aware of the power of narrative and how it has led to the demonization and persecution of mountain lions throughout their range. This year, she produced a short video, “The Secret Life of Mountain Lions,” to give the public an intimate view of these secretive animals to debunk myths and shift perceptions. The video features rare footage caught by motion-triggered cameras in mountain lion dens and feeding sites, among other locations, by Panthera's Teton Cougar Project. The star of the video is a mountain lion female, F 61, who has given birth to three kittens. But the odds are stacked against survival. Narrated by bear biologist and wildlife filmmaker Chris Morgan, the video reveals the social and family bonds of mountain lions and how these are crucial for their long-term survival. Negri believes in the power of film to educate the American public and build understanding and empathy for animals for their long-term conservation.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that at least 66,665 cougars were killed between 1907 and 1978. Seen as dangerous predators to be eliminated from the landscape, they were hunted, trapped, and shot in many regions to extinction. While 14 states in the U.S. have legalized hunting of mountain lions, California led the charge to give full protection to the cats, while allocating $30 million a year for critical wildlife habitat through a landmark 1990 initiative. Negri played a pivotal role in mobilizing volunteers and the public to pass this initiative. We asked Negri more about this work and her video.

What led you to produce “The Secret Life of Mountain Lions”?

I produced this video to counter the negative narrative about mountain lions as solitary, vicious killers and show the public a more accurate nature of these amazing animals.

To give you a bit of context, the mountain lion has over 30 recognized names. The scientific name, Puma concolor, means “cat of a single color.” But it could have easily been called the cat of many names. They have the largest geographic distribution of any terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.

Their range spans 28 countries—from … North America to the tip of South America. This wide range has enabled this large cat to interact with many different people and cultures. Many people led to many opinions and attitudes and many misunderstandings about the very nature of this secretive cat. Early colonists viewed this large predator as threat to livestock, game, and personal safety, and prior to the 1960s they were considered vermin and thousands were trapped, poisoned, and shot for bounties. Today those perceptions still persist.

After working to change policy and management for lions, I was inspired by Jane Goodall's remarks a few years ago where someone asked her about the value of videos. She said that animal videos can shift public perceptions and attitudes, but first you must connect to the hearts of people. When I saw Panthera's extraordinary remote-camera footage in the wild of a mountain lion mother and her relationship with her kittens, I knew we had the potential to enable people to really connect with the beauty of these animals, change their perceptions, and ultimately inspire them to take action to advance their conservation.

What led you to advocate for mountain lion conservation efforts in California? 

I always had a love of nature, animals, and wild places from a very early age. During the ‘60s, when my father was a legislator, I first began my interest to right those things I knew to be wrong. When I was in Africa in 1983, I was struck and saddened by the senseless slaughter of elephants and was considering how I might work to stop [it]. When I returned to the states, I learned that a bill was moving through the California legislature to open a hunting season on mountain lions for the first time since the bounty era in the ‘60s despite the fact they were guessing the population of lions and failed to look at the impact a hunting season would have on their population.

Had the legislation passed, it would have allowed hunters to chase these animals with a pack of hounds up a tree and shoot them at point blank for merely a trophy on their wall. The clear lack of science and the ethical issue of hunting a large carnivore for sport led me to work to improve how these animals are managed and protected.

What was the public perception about mountain lions in California during that time?

I met with thousands of citizens over the course of three years and learned that most knew they may never see a mountain lion in the wild, but they wanted to know they were there living wild and free on the landscape. Public opinion polls at the time told us that the majority of the public believed shooting these animals for fun was repugnant and believed these animals to be an important part of our natural heritage deserving protection. In 1990, the public overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative that permanently banned sport hunting of mountain lions in California and allocated $30 million a year for 30 years for critical wildlife habitat. During the campaign, hundreds of newspaper editorials and local governments from around the state came out in favor of protecting the big cats.

Is there a tipping point in the public support of mountain lions as evidenced in the favor of P22, the Los Angeles cougar who is co-habiting an urban area?

Yes, there has been a huge wave of public support building for these American icons.  The response has been truly amazing. My guess is that part of the growing interest and support for P22 is that this animal's struggle to survive may not be all that different than our own. P22 is isolated on an island surrounded by a mass of human population. He is struggling to survive in the same way so many of us are—we want freedom to roam and be safe from poisons and persecution. Thanks to the media, people from all over the world read about and saw pictures of P22—both when he was healthy and after he was poisoned. The pictures of his emaciated body were heart-wrenching. It is truly a tribute to this animal's resilience and perseverance to live that he not only recovered from being poisoned but managed to cross eight lanes of highway to find a mate. The public fascination with and response to P22 has given me hope that perhaps we can coexist with our urban wildlife neighbors.

What do you think the national impact of the video has been?

The impact has been overwhelmingly positive. Historically, this animal has been one of the most misunderstood and misperceived of the large predators. Thanks to the researchers and their hidden cameras, we are now able to debunk the myths and preconceived notions about these animals by reaching thousands of people with videos and social media.

Jane Goodall was right when she said that videos can change the attitudes and perceptions of people about animals. In an online survey for “The Secret Life of Mountain Lions,” 98 percent of respondents said that the video was effective in revealing the importance of family bonds of big cats for their long-term survival, and 85 percent of survey respondents said they learned something new about mountain lions. Survey respondents were most surprised to learn that mountain lion mothers adopted orphaned kittens, had strong family bonds, and that kittens were able to share meals peacefully with their parents. Jane Goodall said that once we understand, we can truly care, and then are we more likely to take action. We know that thousands of viewers have turned to the website to learn more and take action.  The ability to reach millions of people online and raise awareness about new discoveries about these amazing animals' behavior and plight, and to have them take action on their behalf—I think this is the real impact of the video.

What is needed for the long-term conservation of mountain lions throughout their range?

Scientists agree that loss of habitat and excessive hunting are the major threats to mountain lion populations. While the mountain lion is considered one of the most adaptable of the large carnivores, it is also vulnerable to extinction. Extinction rates for large carnivores are one of the highest in the world. In the U.S., mountain lions were eliminated from the entire eastern half of North America only 200 years after colonization, leaving only a remnant population in Florida. Add the impact of hunting, and these animals are getting slammed. Recent compiled data show that in the past decade, sport hunters killed 29,000 mountain lions in the U.S. alone.

It will take government agencies, scientists, conservation groups, hunters, fishers, and everyday citizens coming together to address these threats and ensure we have large connected lands for these and other animals to thrive. The bottom line is we can't wait until a mountain lion population is on the brink of extinction before we take action. Given the complexity and intensity of issues facing wildlife, from climate change to loss of habitat, we will need to work together if these animals are going to be part of our natural heritage long into the future. I am hopeful this is already beginning to happen, but much more is needed.

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Oil Finance 101: What Every Climate Activist Needs to Know  
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped a bombshell on ExxonMobil yesterday. News reports revealed yesterday that the SEC is investigating the oil company's balance sheets and how efforts to solve climate change might impact the company's bottom line.



ExxonMobil and its allies have been furiously trying to wave away the mounting stack of official investigations into what Exxon knew and said about climate change, so this latest investigation must have come as a severe disappointment to them.

"Right now Exxon is betting everything it has on the failure of the world to solve the climate crisis; the SEC has a chance to expose how weak Exxon's hand really is." -Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA

The Wall Street Journal reported that the SEC investigation is a "far-reaching" look not just into how ExxonMobil currently values its assets, but also "what would happen to Exxon under a scenario envisioned by last year's Paris climate talks -- if greenhouse gas emissions were reduced 80% by 2050."

What the SEC is describing is a "stress test" for fossil fuel companies to measure their profitability in a world where we successfully limit global warming.

If the report is true, it could be a big deal for the climate, and climate activists everywhere.

The first thing to understand about oil companies is that their value in the marketplace is largely determined by the value of their proven reserves, i.e. the oil and gas that companies have already discovered but haven't pumped out of the ground.

Since these companies are constantly selling oil and gas, they also have to be constantly finding new reserves in order to maintain that storehouse. A company that each year finds (or acquires) as much oil and gas as they sell is considered by Wall Street to be in strong financial health. A company that is not able to replace its reserves will decline and eventually go out of business.

The hard truth that fossil fuel investors must grapple with is that we already have way too many reserves.

In order to limit global warming to 2 degrees C we will have to leave the majority of existing fossil fuel reserves in the ground -- to say nothing of new discoveries.

Even burning the reserves we have is enough to push us over the limit.

What's more, for us to have even a 50-50 chance of keeping warming under 2 degrees, demand for oil will have to peak in the next few years and then decline rapidly. In contrast, ExxonMobil's annual Energy Outlook reports confidently predict that demand for oil will grow continuously over the next several decades. The gulf between these two visions of our future is stark:
Chart comparing the IEA's 450 scenario (red line) with ExxonMobil's estimate (blue line) for world oil demand from 2014 to 2040 (in units of millions of barrels of oil per day). The IEA 450 scenario gives a 50% chance of limiting global warming to 2 degrees C. Data: IEA World Energy Outlook 2015 (Figure 3.1), ExxonMobil Energy Outlook 2016 (p. 72). Protesters courtesy of the climate justice movement.

The difference between the red path and the blue path is the difference between a safe climate and one careening out of control -- but it also represents a massive amount of profits that oil companies would have to give up. All of this shows that the current business model of oil and gas companies is simply incompatible with a stable climate and a healthy planet.

Exxon and other oil companies may be betting the farm on climate disaster, but they are also stacking the deck, paying the dealers, and (when all else fails) bluffing.

Oil companies know perfectly well that their profits will be significantly curtailed by serious action to address climate change -- and they have known this for decades. Multiple investigations by Inside Climate News, the Los Angeles Times and the Center for International Environmental Law have all uncovered evidence that scientists working for Exxon, and other oil companies, knew the risks of climate change decades ago.

Despite this knowledge, the oil companies mounted a sophisticated campaign of climate denial that has successfully delayed action on climate change for years, while carbon accumulated in the atmosphere and Exxon's profits soared.

These revelations have in turn sparked investigations into whether Exxon managers committed fraud in its statements to the public or its investors. Both the New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General have opened investigations into what Exxon knew and when they knew it.The SEC investigation should give new momentum to those inquiries, while expanding their scope from what #ExxonKnew to what Exxon knows.

The SEC's stress test is not likely to go well for Exxon or other oil companies.

If the Paris climate goals are met then it is likely that many of the assets Exxon includes on its balance sheet will become "stranded."

A stranded asset is one that cannot be produced due to falling oil demand, or a high carbon price, or other climate policies that limit the amount of fossil fuels we can combust. Because the oil industry works on very long investment timescales and high upfront costs, any decisions we make today about where to invest our money will have a profound influence on what our energy mix looks like in future decades.

In a climate safe world, Exxon looks like a lousy investment. And we need to make sure Exxon can't keep holding back our renewable energy future over oil and gas that can't be burnt. We can do that by demanding comprehensive investigations at the highest levels of government.

Tell the Department of Justice to join the SEC and investigate Exxon!

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How @CITES works & 5 species to look out for https://t.co/wq5Z2eqxOd #WorldRhinoDay Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 
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Puritan tiger beetle population recovery  

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A wildlife biologist at the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge works in the field on recovering populations of the endangered Puritan tiger beetle to its native habitat. Photo credit: USFWS

 
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Repairing your old fridge sounds green but buying new is better  
A proposed tax cut for repairs in Sweden is designed to reduce carbon emissions, but for some possessions it's better to just replace it, says Michael Le Page  
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Chip shifts frequencies of photon qubits  
New technology could help to link-up quantum devices  
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Flash Physics: Giant glowing 'space blobs', SCOAP3 extended for three years, European Spallation Source gains momentum  
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics  
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Heat transfer in solids and fluids with COMSOL Multiphysics  
Register now: Wednesday 19 October
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Adventures in search of auroras  
This fascinating account of the Northern Lights taught reviewer (and space plasma physicist) Colin Forsyth a thing or two about aurora science  
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Adventures in search of auroras  
This fascinating account of the Northern Lights taught reviewer (and space plasma physicist) Colin Forsyth a thing or two about aurora science  
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Between the lines  
Books on the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens, the physics of golf and pioneering women in science, reviewed by Margaret Harris  
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Between the lines  
Books on the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens, the physics of golf and pioneering women in science, reviewed by Margaret Harris  
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Unlocking the mysteries of the formation of our solar system with CHIMERA  
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AFM-IR Workshop  
Workshop: 9 Nov 2016, Manchester, United Kingdom. Organized by Anasys Instruments, Scanwel, University of Manchester.  
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Quantum-Classical Transition in Many-Body Systems: Indistinguishability, Interference and Interactions  
Workshop: 13 Feb 2017 - 17 Feb 2017, Dresden, Germany. Organized by Andreas Buchleitner and Juan-Diego Urbina.  
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Anti-Defamation League Steps Up Efforts To Combat Anti-Semitism Online  

The Anti-Defamation League is hiring a Silicon Valley representative to lead efforts to combat anti-Semitism and other hate speech online, says CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

 
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North Korea Accidentally Reveals It Only Has 28 Websites  

A complete list of the websites available to people in North Korea was published online on Tuesday. A security engineer stumbled upon the usually hidden sites with URLs ending in .kp.

 
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $3 Billion Investment To Cure All Disease  

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, promised to give away their $45 billion fortune during their lifetime. This is one of the biggest investments so far.

 
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