Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

In the past few years, physicists have begun to realize that it could have a major role in fluid dynamics – the Earth’s oceans, for example, or plasmas, or the biological cells in fluid-like “active” matter. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D. But how many waves?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion. However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its updated forecast for the 2024 hurricane season. Significantly warmer than usual surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, which come largely as a result of human-caused climate change. One of the main reasons for this forecast?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

High crop losses from recent hurricanes, including Maria in 2017, resulted not only from direct impacts from the storms but also from related energy, telecom and water supply outages along with damage to roads and irrigation systems. Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Back to 2017, I had loved listening to famous environmentalist Paul Hawken present his book Drawdown. Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm. Bringing back Nature from the brink of collapse can be done by implementing regenerative solutions to our land and oceans.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Erie County -- North East Intermediate Elementary School , for “Protect Our Lake”: This project enhanced the third-grade curriculum with new content on environmental issues plaguing the Great Lakes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay Watershed Education & Training program.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s top climate science body, has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”. In 2017, the group’s U.S. libertarian groups promoting climate denial.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Today, Carolina Gold is cultivated by only a handful of small-scale farmers. .

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

By Anya Blaney A childhood love of sea turtles led Jennifer Lee Clinchy to her life's work protecting the oceans and their inhabitants. © Jennifer Lee Clinchy However, Jennifer’s most transformational chapter unfolded during her tenure at the White House, where she played a pivotal role in shaping international ocean policies.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. One is transmission spectroscopy, which looks at the spectrum of starlight that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months.

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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 change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2024

In June, scientists at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that this year’s resulting dead zone would be larger than average, covering an area roughly the size of the state of Connecticut. We’ll know in the next week or two if they were right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” So far, no alarm bell has been loud enough to stop the sleepwalking.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Phosphorus also is a constituent in the manure that big livestock operations turn to liquid and spread on fields. Data: [link] and [link]. A last point.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. According to Coral Reef Watch, more than 54% of the reef areas in the global oceans are experiencing bleaching-level heat stress.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2024

DEP’s inspection reports noted the original violations for these offenses were issued on April 7, 2017 and May 17, 2018. Kane, McKean County) - holds 163 conventional permits -- Oil Creek Operators LLC (Ocean View, DE) - holds 283 conventional permits -- Olympia Oil SVC Inc. and found it was still venting gas to the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That made 2022 the 3 rd most costly year on record behind 2017, when Hurricane Harvey landed as a Category 4 storm, and 2005 when Hurricane Katrina landed as a Category 5 storm. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. As a result, he was able to nail down the magnitude of what has been going into the atmosphere and its origin. Licker et al.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

In 2022, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center calculated that the number of people who died from heat-related causes between 2008 and 2017 was two to three times higher than federal figures.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2023

Yemen is still reporting cases, despite having an outbreak starting in 2017 that infected more than one million people and was the worst in modern times. The storm had traversed the Indian Ocean and hit Madagascar before churning off the southern African coast as it regained strength. earthquake that struck the region on February 6.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On the morning after the 2016 election my fellow scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and I exchanged stunned looks as we passed in the hallway. During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, our federal interagency team provided regular updates to Texas county and municipal emergency managers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. Since 2017, Moody has received nearly $339,000 from oil and gas companies and electric utilities as well as $300,000 from RAGA, according to Transparency USA data.

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