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

Physics World

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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Harnessing the Ocean’s Power to Combat the Climate Crisis

Law Columbia

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. Blue carbon is carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

In the January arguments, he bemoaned an atmosphere where “automatically whatever the agency says, wins.” For all of his private ill will, he created the EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and signed the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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Policy News: August 29, 2022

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $500 million for climate and weather research and forecasting. This strategy follows a Biden administration Executive Order, released on Earth Day 2022, that directs federal agencies to develop guidance to better account for nature and its benefits in federal decision-making.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Carbon Management and Negative Emissions

Law Columbia

The administration has shown some signs of support for efforts to capture carbon dioxide at power plants and other industrial facilities and remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, including in official statements and funding decisions. So far, however, the administration is yet to back this up with any concrete actions.

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

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