Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

Continued flooding in California caused by severe storms called atmospheric rivers continues to shock the country. Children from food-insecure households lack key nutrients, which may cause mental health conditions that lead to poorer educational outcomes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The book was co-written and illustrated by environmental educator and artist Kira Davis. Kira Davis: We are changing the atmosphere, and the planet is warming to an extent that desertification and warmer temperatures are causing migrations, extinctions, land loss as water levels rise.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

The 2023 Great Lakes Literacy Education Exploration (GLLee) is a free, fun, three-hour online interactive and self-paced crash course for educators in a Great Lakes topic. For more information on programs, initiatives, research, upcoming events and more, visit the PA Sea Grant website. Follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

By Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State News Educators who teach young people about water resources can gather valuable information for curriculum planning by participating in Penn State Extension’s “Dive Deeper Summit,” a youth water education conference slated for 8 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and private and public grants, Pennsylvania Sea Grant conducts integrated research, outreach, education, and communications programs in the Lake Erie watershed, and in the Delaware and Susquehanna River Basins.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities. Posted: March 5, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Award-winning atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe will discuss how to build hope in the face of the devastating impacts of climate change during a special event at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Cumberland County. Her talk will take place Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in the college’s Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

The Storm Par team mostly went to Ivy League schools; Tyler, the tornado wrangler and cowboy scientist, trained as a meteorologist; Dexter is a scientist; Lilly brings her technical expertise as the drone operator; and Kate has some educational training, but also relies on what she learned growing up in Oklahoma.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2022

The PA Environmental Literacy Capacity Building Project Team is inviting Pennsylvania educators to complete the 2022 Status and Needs of Environmental Education In PA Survey by March 31. This initiative is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Click Here to take the survey.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Education and Planning. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected. Creating an environmental or sustainability school also provides organization that makes it easier for students with an interest in the field to understand options.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

An energetic, bustling atmosphere was partly the point. Educational programs. Wait times, at peak, were upward of two and a half hours. Inside the UN complex, crowds were just as prevalent. Sessions were so jammed that security guards had to turn people away from conference rooms. Many pledges were small in scale.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

"I know the recipients of these grants will do amazing work to improve public access, preserve habitats, measure pollution impacts, and educate the public about the benefits of these coastal zones." Coastal zones are areas where land meets the coast and include both coastal waters and adjacent shorelands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Forests present one of the most cost-effective and scalable opportunities available today to sequester carbon because they naturally pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in their wood, leaves, and roots. As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

In the Cold War atmosphere of secrecy and paranoia, scientists played a critical role in educating the public, pressuring policymakers, and developing solutions to emerging technical problems. Some, like the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Federation of American Scientists, still carry on that mission to this day.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

in 2024, with the worst of the heat in the Southwest, the Gulf Coast and the East Coast, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By Sean Sublette Meteorological summer—the three hottest calendar months of the year—was the fourth hottest on record in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

Seeing why our choices today matter for our kids and grandkids The amount of sea level rise expected between now and 2050 is fairly certain because it is largely dictated by how much global-warming pollution we’ve already dumped into the atmosphere. For a full set of recommendations, check out the report itself.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A leading global expert on weather and climate, Dr. Shepherd is the Director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and Full Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. Zack Labe is a climate scientist working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Atmospheric Science of Colorado State University.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Jennings Environmental Education Center in Butler county is home to the state's only native prairie ecosystem and many unique native prairie plants, including the Blazing Star. A variety of vendors, including Kellar Farms Nursery, had beautiful plants for sale and live music added to the festive atmosphere throughout the day.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The week-long scientific exploration of Lake Erie will take place July 7-13, 2024, providing educators with a hands-on opportunity to explore microplastics, phytoplankton, benthic organisms, sediment, and other Lake Erie-specific topics alongside scientists and researchers working on these important issues. Great Lakes watershed.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Given its high potency and short atmospheric lifespan, lowering methane emissions could prevent up to 0.3°C Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. C of warming by 2050. The Initiative provides an important step toward accelerated action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, the same practices that turn farm soils into sponges also pull more carbon from the atmosphere into the soil, making farmers part of the solution to worsening climate change. This, in turn, can help lessen the price shocks that can result when crop and livestock losses occur. This is good for all of us, of course.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The current social cost of carbon is $266 per tonne emitted into the atmosphere, which means that in 2022 (the latest data we have in Canada) , the emissions from just one industry – the production of oil and gas – cost our society a jaw-dropping $57.6

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By Patrick McShea, Educator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History “Tell me what gives you hope?” The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere. Patrick McShea is an educator at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

As I progressed in my education, I became fascinated with how some chemicals behave similarly when they interact in the environment, such as organic chemicals in salt marshes or mercury in the atmosphere.

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Physics World

AUGUST 21, 2021

It is, however, still much higher than the density of our atmosphere (just over 0.001 g/cm 3 ), so, despite their cloud-like appearance, these puffballs of sugar do not float away. But I wonder if, on a planet with a different atmosphere, candyfloss clouds might be possible.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I also read that Mars has no atmosphere , comets are both large space rocks and dusty balls of ice and that Copernicus (back again) published his heliocentric universe theory on his deathbed because of the pesky Catholic authorities. I let our school trust’s director of education – an Ofsted inspector – know of the issues by e-mail.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Coastal Zone Grants are aimed at supporting programs that measure the impact of various pollution sources, improve public access, preserve habitats, and educate the public about the benefits of the state’s coastal zones," said DEP Interim Acting Secretary, Jessica Shirley.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

The production was made possible through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The stories highlight the research topic, questions researchers sought to answer, and their findings through in-person interviews, in-field and in-lab activities, and on location footage.

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Breezometer

MARCH 7, 2022

in Atmospheric Science). I don't think that the scientific system needs to change in order to be more attractive to women, but rather the way we educate our daughters and sons. The experience I got in coding and my interest in atmospheric science brought me to work at BreezoMeter. No whitewashing - it wasn’t always easy.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Challenges and Complexities of Measuring Soil Carbon Sequestration Carbon sequestration seems straightforward: plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and some of that carbon is incorporated below ground through interactions with microbial communities and as plants decompose.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

75M for the RECYCLE Act —This new initiative utilizes EPA resources to educate households and consumers about residential and community recycling programs, decreasing contamination in the recycling stream and supporting recycling infrastructure. . government in confronting the ocean plastic waste problem, both at home and abroad.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The webinar is approved for Continuing Legal Education in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

Rather than vent it into the atmosphere, companies have turned to collecting and processing the gas and using it to power compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, for power generation, or for other purposes. The seminar is approved for Continuing Legal Education in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. Click Here to register.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the atmosphere continues to warm, severe weather events have gone from occasionally urgent to relentless assault. . Todd Tanner, a writer and lifelong sportsman, is the president of the climate education nonprofit Conservation Hawks, run by and for hunters and anglers. On the Au Sable, the threat is a slow burn.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

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 Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Methane is a powerful contributor to atmospheric warming. Though it is far less abundant than carbon dioxide, it is about 80 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere, thus accounting for about 25% of warming. It sounded like two jets were directly above my house,” Doug Harrison, 50, told The Guardian. “I

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