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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action

PA Environment Daily

The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere.

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The “Silver Bullet” Required to Improve California’s Water Rights System: More & Better Data

Legal Planet

Berkeley researchers Ted Grantham and Lucy Andrews, scholars at the campus’ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Their research reveals “substantial gaps in [California’s] stream monitoring network.”

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Future Shock

Legal Planet

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is a stark portrayal of the human condition within the context of climate change.

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Sharp drop in flower abundance caused by climate crisis will leave pollinators searching further for food

Frontiers

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Researchers simulated the warmer, wetter conditions predicted for northern Europe under climate change, by locally heating agricultural fields by 1.5 These conditions immediately lead to changes in the community of wildflowers and their associated insects. The lone ‘winner’.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.