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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. chance of happening in any given year, respectively.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Out of sight, out of mind: The vulnerable world beneath our feet

HumanNature

They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. While our knowledge is growing, so are the threats to the overwhelmingly diverse soil ecosystem. It may be difficult to notice what worms’ responses to increasing drought frequency has to do with you.

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How Forecasts of Opportunity Help Communities Prepare for Climate Disasters

HumanNature

The climate system is connected largely through atmospheric waves that carry temperature, pressure, and wind signals which impact weather thousands of miles away. On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure. 2011): 150-157. What is a forecast of opportunity?

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ITLOS and the importance of (getting) external rules (right) in interpreting UNCLOS

Law Columbia

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. In the context of marine pollution from GHG emissions from vessels, ITLOS referred to the IMO adopted amendments to Annex VI to MARPOL in 2011 and 2021 with a view to reducing GHG emissions from ships. 4) of UNCLOS.

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No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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168 Years of Climate Science

Legal Planet

C if the CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere is doubled, very close to current estimates based on more sophisticated modeling. Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory. First paper on risk of sea level rise due to climate change. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020.