BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2024: Today, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) published its yearly Emissions Gap Report. It finds that a failure to increase ambition and fast action in nations' new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) would put the world on course for a temperature increase of 2.6-3.1 C over the cour  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: Kenta Suzuki of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is awarded the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS)-Mathematical Association of America (MAA)-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for his extraordinary research in the representation theory of p-adic groups. His papers, including two solo works, represent significant progress  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 25 -- The Security Industry Association issued the following news release: * * * The Dubai Police department was honored with the SIA-sponsored award at the 2024 IACP Annual Banquet. * * * The United Arab Emirates' Dubai Police Force was recognized as the 2024 Michael Shanahan Leadership in Public-Private Cooperation Award, a program presented by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in partnership with the Security Industry Association (SIA). Th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release: * * * The national survey finds strong public support for policies that would codify reproductive rights, as well as for other policies, including paid family leave, increasing the child tax credit and various protections associated with the Affordable Care Act Topline results and crosstabs for the poll can be found at www.umass.edu/poll. * * * AMHERST, MA -- With reproductive issues central to cam  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--Experts from the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) will be attending this year's annual United Nations climate change talks (also referred to as COP29), which are being held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22. They will join officials from more than 190 nations--as well as representatives of subnational governments, businesses and other nongovernmental  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2024: * * * Statement by Rachel Cleetus at the Union of Concerned Scientists * * * The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report today. According to this latest analysis, global heat-trapping emissions have yet to peak, and the world is on track to endure global average temperatures that rise between 2.6 and 3.1 degrees Celsi  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNScapv) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2024: In a new letter released today, organizations representing victims of radiation exposure from nuclear testing fallout and production are calling on Utah's congressional delegation to support the reauthorization and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Signed by groups representing physicians, members of the Church of Latter-day Saints, env  more