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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Sky-high power prices are fueling a massive solar buildout in Pakistan.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
NRDC
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
NRDC’s attorneys will continue our time-tested tactics to defend public health and the environment from future federal attacks.
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
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
RFK, Jr., and other potential and current government officials have spread shaky health claims about fluoridated water.
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.
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).
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.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number.
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
In difficult times, a forward-looking mindset may be especially helpful
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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.
NRDC
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
At COP29 in Baku, governments agreed to a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance. How can this be delivered?
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Three people in North America without known animal exposures have tested positive for the bird flu virus H5N1, and samples from two of them suggest the virus is adapting to humans
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Odds are that we’re not truly alone in the cosmos.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
By Carol Hillestad for Brodhead Watershed Association Our creeks looked more like rocky roads than water bodies until recent rain and snow finally broke our long fall drought. Red and white "Burn Ban” signs had shown up along roads throughout the Brodhead Watershed and elsewhere in Monroe County. Did you ever wonder who decides when those signs need to go up?
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.
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less environmental impact
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
If we lose sight of why empathy matters, both individual dignity and democracy suffer
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.
Environmental Law Centre
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Over the last year, you have been a significant part of our success—reading, engaging, sharing and giving to the Environmental Law Centre, Alberta. Here is a snapshot of our year. The post 2024 at a Glance appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.
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