Yale E360

JULY 11, 2022

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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Deforestation Rainforest 2022 2016 287

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources. percent in 2022.

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Biofuels 2016 2022 Deforestation 345

Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

For the last few years ( since at least 2016 ), I’ve shared predictions for the next annual global mean surface air temperature (GMSAT) anomaly based on the long term trend and the state of ENSO at the start of the year. that started with La Niña. 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14

2016 301

2016 2017 2023 2020 301

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Westlake Corporation today announced its target to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2 equivalent emissions per ton of production 20% by 2030 from a 2016 baseline. The post How Westlake Plans to Achieve 20% Emissions Reduction by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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2030 2016 244

Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4 The post American Water Is Reducing CO2 Levels and Saving Water.

2016 246

2016 Conservation Renewable Energy 246

Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

2007 246

2007 2008 2016 2020 246

Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4 The post American Water Is Reducing CO2 Levels and Saving Water.

2016 240

2016 Conservation Renewable Energy 240

Yale E360

MARCH 8, 2022

In the wake of 2016's Hurricane Matthew and 2018's Hurricane Florence, North Carolina emergency rooms saw a spike in visits for diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea, with the largest uptick among older Black and Native American patients, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

2016 228

2016 2018 228

Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) For instance, the trends from 2016 to 2022 are -0.12±0.37ºC/dec Assuming something like 2016 (a +0.11ºC effect), that implies you might see the excedence some 5 years earlier – say 2027 to 2037 (depending a little on the time-series you are following).

2022 324

2022 2016 2017 Cooling 324

Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

As you can see though, the size of the residual for 2023 was comparable to 2016 and 1998 (years that started with large El Nio events), and 2024 had the highest residual in decades despite the recent El Nio only being a moderate event.

2023 189

2023 Radiation 2024 2025 189

Yale E360

MARCH 25, 2022

Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.

2002 214

2002 2016 2017 2020 214

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It And in the American Southwest, she has taken up a new refrain: that “we can’t have land back without water back.”. “In

2016 360

2016 Climate Change Politics Carbon Emissions 360

Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is easier to deal with the balance at the top of the atmosphere or use a simplified description that includes convection and radiation as discussed here previously on RealClimate and presented in Benestad (2016). 679-688, 2016. Focusing on the tropics easily gives too high values ​​for water vapour if applied to the whole planet.

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Greenhouse Radiation 2007 Atmosphere 320

Real Climate

JULY 8, 2023

Maine which provides a nice front end to the NOAA NCEP CFS forecast system and reanalysis and shows absolute daily temperatures in early July clearly exceeding the highest pre-existing temperatures from August 2016. It’s an arresting graphic, and follows in from the record high ocean surface temperatures that were being reported a month ago.

Ocean 329

Ocean 2016 2017 2023 329

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The rest break policy is set at a minimum of 15 minutes every two hours rather than progressively longer breaks as the temperature rises, as was suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their 2016 recommendations. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

Climate Change 245

Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2024 2016 245

Yale E360

JUNE 24, 2022

A Honduran court has sentenced former power company president Roberto David Castillo to 22 years and six months in prison for his role in the 2016 assassination of environmental activist Berta Cáceres. Read more on E360 ?.

2016 183

2016 183

Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022. South Asia is not only baking in a record-setting heat wave.

Climate Change 358

Climate Change Cooling 2016 Atmosphere 358

Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Of course, the records being set in the UAH TLT record blows the ‘climate has been cooling since 2016’ trope that they used through to about last summer, leaving them no plausible data refuge. Efforts to update and improve the freshwater estimates will be undertaken this spring (register for the workshop here! ).

Ocean 330

Ocean 2023 2015 2016 330

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Since an outbreak in 2016, over a million cholera cases have been reported, with over 2,000 deaths. In the Middle East, cholera could worsen significantly in Yemen as the country enters its rainy season. The World Health Organization warns of a spike in cholera in the next couple of months.

2018 130

2018 Conservation 2016 130

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

million as part of the federal National Disaster Resilience Competition.

Climate Change 325

Climate Change 2016 Environmental Science 2020 325

Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Another incident report from Orland this month estimated the cost of drilling a new well at $20,000.

2012 363

2012 2014 2016 Government 363

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. Thanks to Jonathan Adler at Case Western, who did much of the initial legwork on compiling cite counts, though I filled in some gaps and take responsibility for any errors. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name. Cite count.

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Law 2021 2016 2020 299

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The radiative forcing from these changes in concentrations can be easily calculated using standard formulas (from Etminan et al, 2016 which supersede the slightly simpler ones from IPCC TAR), as about 2 W/m 2 for the CO 2 change and 0.65 W/m 2 for CH 4. Highwood, and K.P.

Carbon Dioxide 360

Carbon Dioxide Radiation Atmosphere Greenhouse 360

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

2016 ), a reduction of Saharan dust concentration since the 1970s ( Evan et al. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. 2016 ), in addition to a long-term decline ( Caesar et al. 242-246, 2016. 493-495, 2016. 1527-1527, 2016. 2013 ; Sobel et al. Zhang et al. Mann et al. 534-539, 2013. Sobel, S.J.

2020 255

2020 2016 2008 Atmosphere 255

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. They are taking everything away from us,” Carlos Guzman, a member of the Colectivo Apacheta, an Indigenous group that opposes mining in the Atacama region, told the Washington Post in 2016. Photo © NASA Johnson /Flickr Creative Commons. These lands are ancestral. By the fields.

Renewable Energy 279

Renewable Energy 2016 Fossil Fuels Radiation 279

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

These new standards rely on the findings of a 2016 risk assessment by EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, which determined that long-term exposure to EtO can increase your risk of developing cancer. In fact, the 2016 IRIS risk assessment found that EtO was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood.

2016 256

2016 Clean Air Act Regulations Environmental Protection 256

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He hosts the group’s podcast, “the Highwire,” and he produced the 2016 pseudo-documentary “Vaxxed.” He leads the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a well-funded advocacy group that spreads vaccine misinformation, including baseless claims that childhood vaccines cause autism. He’s dabbled in election denial. near the Capitol on Jan.

Climate Scientist 364

Climate Scientist Climate Change Renewable Energy 2016 364

New Scientist

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by vegetation grew dramatically between 1986 and 2021 and the rate of growth has accelerated since 2016

2016 145

2016 2021 145

New Scientist

MAY 15, 2024

All farmland in the Indian state of Sikkim, shown in these images, has been certified organic since 2016, and local authorities say the change is already improving wildlife populations and the area's arid soil

2016 145

2016 145

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Back in 2016, the U.C. For our scientists Source: Christine Liu Of course, I have to include one for our scientists. As a science educator, I love any chance to represent my love for democracy and science. Berkeley Science Policy Group created an initiative called STEM Votes to increase the voter turnout among STEM students.

2016 319

2016 2024 2020 Politics 319

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Vertical dotted lines mark 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established, and 2016, when the Paris Agreement was ratified. After decades of these negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and ratified in 2016 (to read more about this history check out my peer-reviewed research here ).

Fossil Fuels 305

Fossil Fuels Climate Change Paris Agreement Carbon Dioxide 305

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

For residential systems, their share rose from 41 percent in 2016 to 98 percent in 2021. From 2016 to 2021 storage leapt from 0.1 Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). Source: LBNL 2022. percent for non-residential.

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2021 2016 2002 Clean Energy 264

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Indigenous delegates appeared for the first time as their own constituency, after negotiating for this representation at the previous Congress, in 2016. They led the first ever World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature, a new addition to the IUCN program.

Government 290

Government 2021 Conservation 2016 290

Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) will publish a positive 90-day finding on a 2016 petition (Petition) to delist the golden-cheeked warbler ( Setophaga chrysoparia ) (GCWA). On January 20, 2025, the U.S. The decision comes on the heels of the agency’s recent recommendation to downlist the GCWA from endangered to threatened.

Endangered Species Act 59

Endangered Species Act 2016 2025 Regulations 59

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2016, based on interviews conducted by DEP, a HSCA Section 501 Notice Letter (35 P.S. 6020.501) was sent to AMETEK, Inc. In 2018, DEP initiated a prompt interim response to address the vapor intrusion (VI) exposure pathway. formerly US Gauge), a suspected generator of the drums and liquid wastes disposed on the Property.

2009 101

2009 2011 Waste 2016 101

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

2015 141

2015 2016 Ocean 2017 141

Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

A particularly devastating bloom on the Chilean coast in 2016 killed an estimated 27 million farmed salmon and trout. Other toxin-producing species cause beach closures, kill fish, and lead to restrictions on harvesting clams and oysters. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these marine harmful algal blooms are on the rise.

2011 321

2011 Climate Change 2016 2018 321