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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006. Flooding from Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge in the New York City metropolitan area in 2012 affected 71,000 more people than it would have without human-caused sea level rise.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 8

PA Environment Daily

2006 ) -- EQT Corporation - Gregor Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater (chloride, aluminum, barium, boron, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, vanadium, strontium zinc) to meet Statewide Health Standards at the pad located in Marianna Borough, Washington County. (

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

In 2006, Berkeley Law Professor Joe Sax —widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of Environmental Law—introduced Justice Hobbs as, “beyond dispute, one of the most knowledgeable and most accomplished experts on water law anywhere in the United States.” Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. He got his JD here in 1971.

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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

I remember that Hurricane Sandy struck the New York City region in 2012 and know that the home buyout programs may not have reduced the vulnerability of buyout recipients to hazards. There’s a long list of disasters in my brain that serve as constant reminders of why I’m fighting for climate action.

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Variational principles and topological constants of motion for MHD

Physics World

Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. The post Variational principles and topological constants of motion for MHD appeared first on Physics World.

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Hydrogen’s big shot: where we are and where we are going

Physics World

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

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US survey reveals harassment faced by early-career astronomers

Physics World

It initially polled male and female students in astronomy graduate courses during the 2006/07 college year and then followed up with the same individuals in 2012/13 and 2015/16, by which time the students had entered the workplace.

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