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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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! ).

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 ?.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

million as part of the federal National Disaster Resilience Competition.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Another example of these tactics emerged in 2016 when UCS was issued a subpoena by then-Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Lamar Smith, demanding our communications with state attorneys general and other nonprofits related to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The cooperation was extended in December 2016. Notably, China’s import of enriched materials from the United States has decreased substantially since 2016. While this reactor was initially intended to transition to mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2015, delays in development led China to continue relying on Russian fuel.

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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 ?.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. None of that has happened.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

Citi is underwriting climate devastation through its continued funding of fossil fuels, including $396 billion since the Paris Agreement in 2016. This campaign, which will be active all summer, demands action from Citigroup and other big banks and insurers to stop enabling fossil fuel pollution.

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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.

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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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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 ?.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 24, 2024

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on locals in the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia since 2016

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

California’s 2016 law, SB 1383 , requires a 40 percent reduction from 2013 levels, which is comparable to the 30 percent reduction from 2020 levels identified in the Global Methane Pledge. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global average air temperature smashed the September average by half a degree Celsius, leading to predictions that 2023 will surpass 2016 as the hottest year ever recorded

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet.

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New Scientist

MAY 22, 2024

million children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point, about 1 million more kids than had been diagnosed as of 2016 New survey data estimates that 7.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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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.

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