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NASA probe captures optical images of Venus’ surface

Physics World

Because Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation, weather conditions on its nightside are markedly different from those on the side receiving sunlight. Wood and his colleagues hoped they might be able to measure the speed of clouds in Venus’ thick atmosphere.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In 1968 one of the most iconic moments of the modern environmental movement occurred when the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft took the first photograph of the Earth from space. In 1970 the world’s first Earth Day was held in the US, but we had to wait until 1990 before the movement went global. billion tonnes of CO2.

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April 10 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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PA Resources Council: 5 Large-Scale Public Events Have Committed To 'Zero Waste' In Pittsburgh Region

PA Environment Daily

This action helped to limit the toxicity from discarded products to Pennsylvania’s land, water and atmosphere, and to further improve the environmental health of our communities. Some of Pittsburgh’s largest and most well-known events this spring, summer and fall will share a common theme: zero waste.

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PA Parks & Forests Foundation Recognizes 2024 Award Recipients

PA Environment Daily

Ibberson Government Award: Wayne Kober Sponsored by: KCI Technologies Wayne, a Dillsburg resident, inspired by the first Earth Day in 1970 and his childhood days at Pymatuning Lake, switched his major to Environmental Resource Management at Penn State McKeesport.

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Guest Essay: When People Have To Choose Health Or Jobs, Everyone Loses - The View From Rachel Carson’s Homestead In Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. A spring without voices A couple of days later, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden hosted an Earth Day celebration in the parking lot and lawn in front of their 80-acre grounds, which sit beside the Ohio River where it curves south. It is permitted to emit 2.2

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Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet

Physics World

“If I look at the next 50 years, next hundred years maybe, nobody will be able to set up a telescope that’s powerful enough to resolve surface features,” says Jonathan Jiang , an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses Earth as a laboratory to model exoplanets.