New Scientist
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic pollution — here's what experts say it needs to include
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
The Aliso Canyon gas storage facility blowout in 2015-16 was the largest methane gas leak in the history of the United States. In addition to the climate effects from the methane leakage — 109,000 metric tons, the equivalent of burning over 1 billion gallons of gasoline — there were tremendous health impacts on neighboring communities and even throughout California.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
In 2022 I visited Glacier National Park for the first time with two close friends. We spent five days backpacking through the backcountry, and I was enthralled by the park’s vastness and beauty and the chance to see glaciers for the first time in my life. While I loved camping out in the wild, as a trail runner I couldn’t help but think of ways to travel lighter, cover more territory, and see even more of this breathtaking landscape.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. In those days it was an unusual move that prompted a welcome from Nature. One thing that I didn’t anticipate then was the vast global scale that fake news and conspiracy theories later would attain.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
By Kristen Heberlig, CBF Resiliency Program Manager in PA When considering a Christmas tree this holiday season, “getting real” helps the environment and local economy at the same time. Unlike artificial trees, real Christmas trees are recyclable and renewable resources that clean our water and our air and provide important habitat for wildlife. Buying a real Christmas tree every year also supports Pennsylvania growers, which is good for the economy.
Inside Climate News
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
As climate change brings sudden shifts between extreme drought and catastrophic floods, water policy experts urge state resource managers to take a new approach. By Liza Gross California officials regularly tout their global leadership on climate, yet experts warn that state preparations for a warming world need a major overhaul.
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Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Oil and gas companies are proposing the widespread use of carbon capture to deal with their increasing greenhouse gas emissions. ( Learn more about carbon capture – and why it isn’t a climate solution – here. ) This involves capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from an industrial site, compressing it, transporting it through pipelines and then storing it underground.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
On November 25 at a Washington County Courthouse hearing, Shell Falcon Pipeline LP pleads no contest to three of 13 criminal charges for violating the state Clean Streams when it constructed a natural gas liquids pipeline in Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties serving the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County, according to the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community.
Inside Climate News
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
The vast central Asian country has millions of acres of pastureland. Can it produce steaks and burgers that offset emissions—and earn carbon credits for them? Story and photos by Georgina Gustin Akmola Region, Kazakhstan—The highway running north toward the Russian border is long and straight, a black line streaking across a snowy flatness. A clutch of pine trees, a row of utility poles, a small flock of crows taking flight.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
In northern India, drones and camera traps deployed to monitor wildlife are being used by local officials to spy on women without their consent.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Nanotech
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on November 13, 2024, the release of its latest Pathways to Commercial Liftoff report, “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Sustainable Aviation Fuel,” which analyzes the technical and commercial readiness of several sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production pathways and highlights steps that both the public and private sector can take to make the United States a global leader in SAF production as soon as 2030.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
On November 25, Natural Lands and ClearWater Conservancy announced the preservation of the 667-acre Ridge Farm in Jackson and Miller Townships, Huntingdon County. The property is now under a conservation easement with Natural Lands that will forever protect the forest and streams, and the wildlife that call these places home. Ridge Farm is 90 percent wooded with mature conifers and hardwood trees.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen Campaigners and critical stakeholders had called this year’s UN climate summit, COP29, held in oil and gas-rich Azerbaijan, the worst COP ever. Many had walked out in disgust and given up hope that a deal could be reached. But on Saturday evening, sleep-deprived negotiators could breathe a sigh of relief as the COP29 presidency could hail a historic agreement.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Rich nations pledged $300 billion a year in aid, but developing countries that need help building out renewable energy and adapting to climate impacts say they again felt bullied to accept an inadequate agreement.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably unprovable puzzles of mathematics
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
By Mariah Lucas, Penn State News Since 2001, the Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies , housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the Penn State College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has worked to reduce the environmental impact of public dirt and gravel roads and undersized bridges and culverts by contributing to the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission’s Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Road Maintenance Program (DGLVR).
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath the surface
Nanotech
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on November 20, 2024, the release of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge Roadmap Implementation Framework. Developed by an interagency team led by DOE, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the framework is a supplemental document to the roadmap.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
When life feels difficult, humor can be a coping mechanism that relieves stress and offers the breathing room to keep going, scientists say
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
By Penn State News Sometimes seemingly small efforts can have a big impact. That’s what Autumn Sabo is hoping will happen with The Patch Project, an initiative with local nonprofit Reforest Our Future that aims to restore natural elements to the local landscape. Sabo, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Beaver, and Jeff Karwoski, founder and executive director of Reforest Our Future , are planting 10 small patches of forest around Beaver County.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to mass-produce biorobots for search missions
Nanotech
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
On November 20, 2024, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) introduced the Get Toxic Substances Out of Schools Act of 2024. This is the third consecutive Congress in which Senator Markey has introduced similar legislation. The 118th Congress version, S. 5363 and H.R. 10173, builds on earlier versions by authorizing new grants to address indoor air quality in schools and childcare centers.
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Scientific American
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
By Marel King , PA Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission & Julia Krall , PA Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation An unprecedented period of cooperation between two gubernatorial administrations, legislative leaders, farmers, local governments and countless volunteers is leading to cleaner water in Pennsylvania’s rivers and streams as well as the Chesapeake Bay.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
He, Z., Wang, J., & Li, Y. (2024). Recent Advances in Microalgae-driven Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Strain Engineering through Adaptive Laboratory Evolution and Microbiome Optimization. Green Carbon. [link] Abstract The potential of microalgae as a biological resource for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) has been extensively discussed.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
From “ouch” to “ aïe ” to “ yakayi, ” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common origin
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
By Wayne W. Kober This profile was first published on the PA Conservation Heritage website-- William (Bill) C. Forrey was born in Lancaster, PA General Hospital on March 11, 1931, and his wife, Dot, was born on March 12, 1931. He graduated from Lansdowne, PA High School in 1949, from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture in 1953, and a Master’s Degree in Regional Planning in 1971.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable and long-lasting system
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Jeon, C., & Kim, H. (2024). Microplastics and nanoplastics in groundwater: Occurrence, analysis, and identification. Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 44, e00246. [link] Abstract Microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) are a growing environmental concern owing to their widespread distribution and potential adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Once a tragic example of degraded wildlife habitat, the Klamath River’s dam removal demonstrates how people can halt the decline of, and even restore, wildlife
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the November 30 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 30 [PaEN] -- DEP published notice in the November 30 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a draft Community Water System Design Standards - Part II Public Water Supply Manual Technical Guidance [ DEP ID: 394-2125-004 ].
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