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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

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Environmental Protection Agency is leading a coalition to develop a satellite-based program to detect toxin-producing algae in lakes. Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds.

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

(The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. SAI can offset the effects of greenhouse gases on global-average temperature, but not their total climatic and environmental effects.

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Speaking Truth to Corporate Power

Legal Planet

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. She met a visiting physicist from Princeton on her very first week on the job. He talked her into studying climate change.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.4.24

PA Environment Daily

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. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

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International Women's Day - BreezoMeter Supports ‘Breaking The Gender Bias!

Breezometer

in Atmospheric Science). Given this desire and my aims to improve awareness of air pollution, I came to join the ranks of BreezoMeter’s team of environmental superheroes as their Chief Scientist! The experience I got in coding and my interest in atmospheric science brought me to work at BreezoMeter. For my Ph.D.,

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Carbon dioxide as an air pollutant

Environment, Law, and History

The New Zealand CO2 Project, as it came to be known, is an underappreciated landmark in the history of environmental monitoring.