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Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Megan Yeo, Sebastian Nosenzo, Daniel S. Palmer, Alexei K. Varah, Lucas Woodley, Ashley Nunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12507

Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Premium air travel is often associated with a disproportionately large carbon emissions footprint. This association reflects the increased space and amenities typically found in premium cabins that existing discourse suggests makes their carriage more fuel, and consequently carbon, intensive. One increasingly popular solution is disincentivizing the use of premium cabins in favor of all-economy cabins. How effective might such a policy be. To what extent. And how may the revenue impact affect t…

Learning-Enabled Adaptive Power Capping Scheme for Cloud Data Centers
Yimeng Sun, Zhaohao Ding, Payman Dehghanian, Fei Teng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06994 https://

Learning-Enabled Adaptive Power Capping Scheme for Cloud Data Centers
The rapid growth of the digital economy and artificial intelligence has transformed cloud data centers into essential infrastructure with substantial energy consumption and carbon emission, necessitating effective energy management. However, existing methods face challenges such as incomplete information, uncertain parameters, and dynamic environments, which hinder their real-world implementation. This paper proposes an adaptive power capping framework tailored to cloud data centers. By dynamic…

"Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection"
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Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection
The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cuts funding for several critically important national laboratories and observatories. On the chopping block is Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai‘i, which has been recording atmospheric carbon data every day for nearly 70 years. Mauna Loa Observatory sits atop a volcano […]