Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A 2023 study states that, “The number of storms that intensify from a Category 1 hurricane (or weaker) into a major hurricane within 36 hours has more than doubled,” in 2001–2020 compared with 1971–1990. Data suggest that the increase of Atlantic intensification rates have a positive contribution from human-caused warming. Lucky” again?

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. “A bibliometric analysis of emerging contaminants (ECs) (2001−2021): Evolution of hotspots and research trends.” ” Science of The Total Environment, 907, 168116.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. In their latest research, Dey, Ganguly and colleagues modelled how atmospheric attenuation and soiling affected India’s solar-energy output in 2001–2018. Satellite data.

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Air Pollution 2001 Atmosphere 2018 127

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Since 2001, it has paid farmers to pump groundwater approximately two out of every three years.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Twenty-three years ago today, on August 13th, 2001, Friends of Allegheny Wilderness, the Forest County Historical Society, The Wilderness Society, and others, established a permanent roadside historical marker with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission honoring Zahnie just north of Tionesta on U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

We will all remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001, but Betsy Mallison, Community Relations Coordinator from DEP’s Southwest Regional Office in Pittsburgh, will remember it more vividly than most. Schweiker's heart. 9/11 brought out a goodness in people united that I feel we've lost a bit of today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

See in particular Doll and Hill’s famous 1954 paper on the British Doctors’ Study , a long-term prospective cohort study that lasted from 1951 to 2001. And as an aside, Bradford Hill was also one of the pivotal scientists that helped build evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

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New Scientist

JULY 25, 2023

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to WALL-E, Erika Nesvold picks her favourite sci-fi films set in space (and explains why E.T. missed out)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

In 2001, the GHG Protocol published the first version of its Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard , which contained sector-specific tools for corporations. The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I think common EOFs are a clever concept and have used them as a framework for empirical-statistical downscaling since 2001 (Benestad, 2001). 1645-1668, 2001. In 2017, a group of colleagues and I wrote a perspective on the use of statistical methods in climate research where we also discussed common EOFs (Benestad et al.,

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2001, the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity affirmed that “cultural rights are an integral part of human rights, which are universal, indivisible, and interdependent….”

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Climate Change Sea Level Coastal Erosion Ocean 338

Physics World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In 2001, he started to use SPM, while working as an application scientist for QPT, Inc. Andrey Krayev is the US AFM-Raman Product Manager at HORIBA Scientific. Andrey Krayev received his master’s degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 1991. Since 2008, he was the CTO at AIST-NT, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. Mauro is Dorothy Pate Enright Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a B.S. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University.

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Recycling 2001 Carbon Dioxide 2006 101

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Next Steps The MAS is considering a phased approach to regulating the ESG Rating Providers as Capital Markets Services licensees under the Securities and Futures Act 2001. Further public consultation will be conducted when MAS takes formal steps towards developing a regulatory regime.

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New Scientist

MAY 10, 2023

A sequence for the human genome was first published in 2001, but this original reference doesn't reflect the full genetic diversity of humanity - something a new "pangenome" attempts to solve

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2001. He has also served as a council member for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and as a member of the board of directors at the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). The University of Lille awarded Dr. Vazquez a Ph.D. in molecular genetics in 2004 and an M.Sc.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2001, when he and his wife, Nancy, moved to their home outside… Read more → An eastern tailed-blue butterfly flits among the tall, swaying blades as a red-winged blackbird flies overhead. When Fred Delcomyn looks outside, this is what he might see.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2021

For instance in Tokyo and Seoul, the first hot day of the year (30°C or higher) arrived on average 11 days earlier during the period 2001-2020 compared to the previous two decades. Between 2001 and 2020, the frequency of heatwaves in Beijing was nearly three times that of the previous 40-year period. in the morning. .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He also helped guide the successful rescue of nine miners trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 2002 and the environmental response to the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

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Real Climate

APRIL 23, 2023

ºC/dec, for UAH, RSS and NOAA-STAR respectively) and after 2001 (0.14/0.20/0.17 As expected, the year-to-year variations are very similar, but there are notable divergences between 1996 and 1999 that are (mostly) related to the treatment of data from NOAA-14 which had a large orbital and instrumental drift. The trends prior to 1995 (0.07/0.14/0.16

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 24, 2022

mozambica (2001), I. There are only seven known species of these elusive socialites, one of which was discovered only last year: Idiomysis bumbumiensis (2021), I. diadema (2016), I. robusta (aptly named as they are the largest at a whopping 6 mm; 2008), I. japonica (1978), I. tsurnamali (1973) and I. inermis (1922).

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Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2022

New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019. “The majority of pet owners are likely lovers of nature, and we think most would be alarmed to discover that they could be unknowingly contributing to the overfishing of shark populations,” commented the authors. Article link: [link].

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The VCF is not limited to first responders. Compensation is also available to those who worked or volunteered in construction, clean-up, and debris removal; as well as people who lived, worked, or went to school in the exposure zone.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2001, this interpretation was affirmed in a unanimous Supreme Court decision, Whitman v. As a congressional research service report from 2017 put it: “For 45 years, EPA has interpreted Section 109 as prohibiting the [EPA] Administrator from considering costs in setting the standards. American Trucking Associations.

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Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 2001 246

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Since 2001 DCNR imposed a moratorium on any further additions of ATV trails, and have had a blanket restriction of ATV recreational use on state forest roads. By allowing ATVs in the forest for the past 38 years, they have violated those duties, according to PEDF.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Pennsylvania has won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We wanted to contribute to new knowledge in this population that is often considered to be the same as the population living at sea level, and from a physiological point of view we are very different.”. Solving the mystery.

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Sea Level 2001 2017 140

Energy & the Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

Lessees Gramwich et al sued in 2001 alleging that lessor Meng engaged in “actions that were bizarre and numerous” that interfered with operations under a 1996 oil and gas lease on 2,000 acres in Throckmorton County. The facts are dense and the savings clause at issue is sui generis, so I won’t go into lots of detail.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2001, a group of Mecosta County residents sued to stop Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, from depleting a spring to fill its Ice Mountain water bottles. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Braymer started his Commonwealth Career as a summer law school intern with the Department of Environmental Protection in the summers of 2000 and 2001. Prior to his appointment, Braymer was the Regional Counsel with the Department of Environmental Protection’s Northwest Regional Office.

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Physics World

JANUARY 4, 2022

However, Majorana fermion quasiparticles – akin to “split” electrons – can theoretically be stable in systems such as superconductors, as predicted in 2001 by Alexei Kitaev , who is now at Caltech. With the possible exception of neutrinos, whose Majorana nature remains undetermined, a real Majorana fermion has never been discovered.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Following the most recent peace agreement, this study combined regional datasets from 2001-2018 to model the relationships between deforestation, conflict events, displaced people, the size of municipalities, coca crops, number of cattle and cattle farms. ? Read original article ?

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Deforestation 2001 Environmental Science Conservation 116

Environmental News Bits

JULY 1, 2024

From 2001 through 2020, consumption of this fruit laden with healthy fats tripled nationwide, rising to over 8 pounds per person yearly. by Viridiana Hernández Fernández, University of Iowa Consumers’ love for avocados in the United States seems to know no bounds.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

By Mariah Lucas, Penn State News Since 2001, the Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies , housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the Penn State College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has worked to reduce the environmental impact of public dirt and gravel roads and undersized bridges and culverts by contributing (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Don transitioned the 96 acre farm from a conventional dairy to rotationally grazed beef operation in the early 1990’s and converted remaining crop acreage to pasture in 2001. Lori joined the farm operation when her family returned to the farm in 2003. They increased the livestock diversity in 2005 by adding goats and again in 2023 with sheep.

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2001 2003 2005 Natural Resources 81

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ed Zahniser, Howard Zahniser’s son, wrote in 2001 that-- “I believe it was his work as a youth at The Forest Press that put the printers ink in his blood and set him on the career path that led to his wilderness conservation work.”

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