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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. The lines form a chemical fingerprint that could be used to find “biosignatures” such as oxygen or ozone. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. The Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies is releasing a new report, “Cross-Cutting Theme for U.S. Contributions to the UN Ocean Decade,” today, April 25. Federal Register opportunities. National Nature Assessment.

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. EPA : A draft policy assessment for the reconsideration of current Ozone air quality standards finds that there is insufficient scientific evidence that there would be a public health benefit to stricter ozone regulations. NOAA – U.S. EPA – National Priorities List.

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