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Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou

Union of Concerned Scientists

This report, issued by NOAA annually since 2006, was a much-anticipated event at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting because the implications matter far beyond the Arctic. Another bright spot this year amid thebad news was that the massive Greenland Ice Sheet had the lowest annual ice mass loss since 2013 ( Poynar et al. ,

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

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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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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

vm/Getty Images Our team and colleagues at the University of Maryland School of Public Health have found that in Maryland, the annual rate of vibriosis cases between 2013 and 2019 was roughly 40 percent higher than that in the period from 2006 to 2012. Now the bacteria population stays high well into the winter months.

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Trump’s 6 Worst Attacks on FEMA in the First 100 Days

Union of Concerned Scientists

Congress enacted the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to ensure future administrators have demonstrated emergency management and homeland security knowledge and background, and a minimum of five years of executive leadership and management experience in the public or private sector. Whats next?

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

And since the first IPCC estimates published in 2013, we have learned a lot and have gotten much better at estimating remaining carbon budgets. IPCC reported carbon budgets for the first time in 2013. in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th The appellant argued that because CEQA Guidelines section 15064.3

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