Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Decades ago, their own scientists told car companies and oil companies about climate change, information the companies chose to ignore. He talked her into studying climate change. She went on to become the head of the climate change program at Argonne National Lab and a professor at UC Davis.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climate change will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climate change. These connections are especially important in the environmental area, particularly in connection with climate.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Nancy is a staunch advocate for leveraging Earth observations and environmental intelligence to improve decision-making on the individual, business, and government levels. She leads numerous initiatives that promote a better understanding of our planet’s dynamic weather and climate changes. Paul Walsh. Dr. Marshall Shepherd.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This post is an introduction to methane in climate change: where it comes from, how it’s different from CO 2 , how those differences matter, and what that all means for controls. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. I won’t go into details on the current state of methane controls and proposals for new ones.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 9, 2022

Lately, there has been a lot of talk all over the world about the birds and the bees — that is, how they are impacted by the environmentally devastating effects of climate change and how humans play a role in this process. So, what exactly is climate anxiety? What’s the story behind your book?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2023

She observed that “an atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if, as some suppose, at one period of its history, the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature from its own action, as well as from increased weight, must have necessarily resulted.”

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2022

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky. These include the high variability in carbon burial rates, vulnerability to future climate change, and fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2024

Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology (2024). Breakthrough innovations in carbon dioxide mineralization for a sustainable future.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. He is currently field chief editor of the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, who also took part in the study added what is required to make emissions decline rapidly: “ If governments respond by turbocharging clean energy investments and planting, not cutting, trees, global emissions could rapidly start to fall.”.

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Science & Climate

MARCH 16, 2021

Climate Change From Science to Solutions. A failure in science often leads to unexpected directions,” said lead author Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor and ecologist with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. “We When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Sponsored Content.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Breezometer

JULY 6, 2021

The Environmental Data Revolution. Environmental science emerged as a formal discipline during the Enlightenment era of the 17th and 18th centuries. Climate computing bridges diverse disciplines and research ideas, then process them together to deliver a more comprehensive picture. Pollen monitoring stations.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

TNC’s The Climate Resilient Forests and Communities team has outlined many interesting and important research questions related to co-benefits of restoration activities, climate change impacts, and forest health. Ultimately, I decided to tackle the topic of belowground carbon. 2) How does harvesting affect soil carbon?

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Science 2006 , 313 (5789), 940–943. Climate Change Presents Increased Potential for Very Large Fires in the Contiguous United States. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Larkin, N.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. Sponsored Content. In medicinal use, it's the substance that attacks the bacteria/virus/tumor.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2022

This summer the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will lead a campaign to map heat and air quality in Philadelphia, working with community scientists so that residents have a stronger voice in the planning and implementation of climate change-preparedness strategies. . than any other type of extreme weather.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. This is not the way modern science should be done by scientists. The hockey stick graph (.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. Sponsored Content. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy. Conservationism is slightly different.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 5, 2024

All projects will be co-created and sustained by community members, local organizations and Academy scientists with a collective aim to address systemic racism and climate change issues across the city. The ethos is simple: help improve the quality of life for the people of Philadelphia.

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Breezometer

MARCH 7, 2022

I was actually driven to change the path I was on and continued on to an MSc and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science). In particular, I wanted to help find solutions to the climate change problem. The experience I got in coding and my interest in atmospheric science brought me to work at BreezoMeter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As the climate crisis advances unchecked, the work of federal agencies dedicated to protecting our health and the places where we work, play, worship, produce food, energy, and shop has become critical and are now at great peril. From coastal erosion to pollution, NOS’s science helps states and communities manage these resources sustainably.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Climate change is no fad or Johnny-come-lately in science. Over time, it has become more and more certain that humans are causing climate change and that continuing down that road poses great risks. Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And just three years ago, Reviving the Dead Zone provided the first comprehensive assessment of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone’s economic impact, and warned the root problem—agricultural runoff pollution—will likely worsen due to climate change. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. Executive Branch White House approves Willow oil project in Alaska.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

The Democrats speak about the urgency of responding to climate change and tend to emphasize the jobs that could be created in that response. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. He teaches chemistry and environmental science and is an adjunct professor at Duquesne University.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2022

The Trump’s rules arbitrarily limited the scope of the environmental effects that EPA can consider. Their goal was clearly to prevent consideration of climate change. In ecology, causal chains are often complex, and the same is true for atmospheric physics and other parts of environmental science.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

TODAY 7:00: Dickinson College Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change. Sayre High School Students Together at Cobbs Creek To Learn Environmental Science, Engineering In Philadelphia -- Erie Times: Venango Twp. Digital Foundry in Westmoreland County.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Proposals for geoengineering — reducing warming after carbon emissions are already in the atmosphere — range from being almost literally garden variety to the realm of science fiction. loss of stratospheric ozone); important aspects of regional climate (e.g.,

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. There are currently 340 North Atlantic right whales left.

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. EU countries approve landmark climate change law – Reuters.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and NOAA’s Scientific Advisory Board to meet. New United Nations Climate Report Warns of a ‘Code Red for Humanity’. The report more directly links climate change to increases extreme weather events. UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S.

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