Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 27, 2023

I am a senior in environmental science in Drexel University’s Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Enviromental Science, expected to graduate in the summer of 2024. It lives at least 200 meters under the ocean surface where sunlight is scarce, making herbivory nearly impossible. Tell us more about yourself.

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2023

The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean currents will cause plastic to accumulate in the Arctic, damaging ecosystems. It is even found in the polar oceans and the deepest ocean trenches.” and 10cm in size) for a different study.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. Ten students had just listened to me explain the cascade of negative effects associated with the increasing acidification of ocean waters.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

With well over a billion dollars in funding, the Doerr School incorporates and plans to expand departments of earth system science, oceans, geophysics, environmental engineering, and energy science and engineering, and parts of the social sciences. Other schools have also created sustainability schools.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 9, 2022

My research focuses on coastal water quality changes over space and time and using environmental data to measure changes in coastal ecosystems. I am interested in using artwork in outreach to teach environmental science topics to students and families. LC : Jeremy and I were excited to work on a collaborative project together.

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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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Frontiers

JUNE 27, 2022

In celebration of World Ocean Day, we speak with marine scientist Dr Ester Dias , who is currently a research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research in Portugal, focusing on coastal and estuarine species and their ecosystems. Were you interested in the ocean and science from a young age?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Academy is celebrating Water Year in 2022 with a series of special exhibitions aimed at helping people better understand the critical role of rivers and oceans and how everyone’s actions on land affect the watershed system. . Their thin, fragile shells are sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 27, 2023

The small dark American eels ( Anguilla rostrata ) that are currently making their way through our local freshwater rivers and streams actually had their start out in the Atlantic Ocean’s deep saltwater. As they are tossed about the waves, the leptocephali spend their time feeding on organic ocean detritus.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

Diatoms are found abundantly in almost every aquatic environment: oceans, lakes and wetlands, too. Because the frustule is heavier than the water surrounding it, after a diatom dies, the glass skeletal remains slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean or lake and become part of the sediment.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

To answer this question, Sabol Spezio analyzes how the oil spill influenced the CWA and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969.

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

The School will incorporate the existing departments that cover geology, environmental engineering, and energy science and engineering. It will add new departments in oceans and environmental behavior, environment & ecosystems, climate science, and global environmental policy.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2021

As a society, we’re addicted to plastic, but the good news is that we can choose to reduce our use so we can have cleaner streets, healthier wildlife and less polluted rivers and oceans. 18 billion pounds of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year. Less than 10% of all plastics in the U.S. get recycled.

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Science & Climate

MARCH 16, 2021

A failure in science often leads to unexpected directions,” said lead author Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor and ecologist with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. “We Media contact(s). Press kit of photos. ← Previous Article: Migratory Birds Track Climate Across the Year.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

These connections are especially important in the environmental area, particularly in connection with climate. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 21, 2022

One fascinating fact that I learned and found interesting was that we didn’t know more sooner, with all of the amazing animals that were all stuck at the bottom of the ocean. Plus things about sea urchins and other dangerous animals that live beyond our vision, deep down in the ocean. They also talked a lot about shells and clams.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean. The United States District Court for the District of Hawai‘i ruled in favor of the environmental organizations. Wells are among the CWA’s list of point source examples.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

The LA Times detailed some of the research, including a study launched by a scientist named Henry Shaw to use an oil tanker to measure how effectively the ocean was removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Management decided to look into the problem and assembled a team of scientists to investigate. You can’t fairly call these scientists heroic.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 20, 2021

Although the three 17-year cicada species occur across the eastern half of North America (from Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean) the different populations of the species don’t have the adults emerging in the same 17-year cycle. This year they keep calling it Brood X. What does that mean? To read more posts in the cicada series, visit.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

With ocean temperatures over 90°F off the Florida coast, Carl strengthened from a Category-1 with 80-mph winds to a Category-5 with 160-mph winds, in only 36 hours. Sea-level rise caused by the warming ocean means that there is no beach at high tide at several Jersey and Delaware coast points.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2014

That’s not to say that wealthy environmentalists are not needed—rather, the movement is desperately in need of individuals with the resources and initiative to promote policies that address omnipresent environmental threats, such as climate change, resource consumption, and ocean pollution. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2022

We’re drowning in plastic, with 18 billion pounds of it ending up in the ocean every year. And 3 trillion cigarette butts — their filters made of plastic — are carelessly tossed, while millions of rolls of plastic food wrap, typically used only once, are discarded by U.S. households annually.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For native plants, birds and wildlife that live in or near these streams, it is like drinking a big glass of ocean water when you’re thirsty. All this salt runoff also depletes oxygen in local waterways, inhibiting a fish’s ability to breathe in the water and encouraging algae blooms.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

single-celled algae?that that exist in virtually every body of water (whether in a puddle?or or in the sea)?were?invisible invisible instruments whose?presence presence indicated?whether whether a creek, stream, river?or?ocean?was was healthy or?polluted.?Diatoms Diatoms lie at the heart of the food chain and generate?25% Their shapes?are

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 2, 2022

Plastic water bottles create an enormous amount of litter — 18 billion pounds of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year with devastating results on wildlife. Wherever you live, there are sure to be many others who are keeping our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans healthy by cleaning up. Brian Yurasits/Unsplash.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A senior hurricane researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Eric Blake has studied atmospheric changes for two decades, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Colorado State University, respectively. Eric Blake. Stephanie Abrams.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Helene works on ocean and sea ice modelling. Originally from Italy, Fabio Berzaghi is now at Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE-CEA) in France. Check out the IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report, which lays out our current knowledge on the physical basis of climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 4, 2022

His “parents” were among 50 community scientists helping with the Philadelphia Urban Heat Mapping Campaign , a study in which the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University collaborated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Fish farming is one way suppliers to keep up with the demand without overfishing the oceans. Note: Billions of people around the world rely on seafood as a main protein, and overfishing is a serious problem. Reduce food waste. What’s wrong with leftovers?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Amazon Rainforest is home to the longest river on Earth that originates high in the Andes mountains as glacial melt and then crosses the entire continent to drain into the Atlantic Ocean. This web of rivers has a known effect on some Amazonian birds and primates.

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Environmental Science

JUNE 15, 2018

It is part of the Earth Sciences or Geosciences , integrating all environmental sciences together for shared data and information to understand how geological events impact the wider environment and vice versa. Sponsored Content. Methods in Geology. Mineralogy.

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Physics World

AUGUST 7, 2021

Series: Earth and Environmental Science 514 022071 ). But even if there isn’t a nearby ocean to keep things wet, capillary bridges can form between sand grains as a result of vapour spontaneously condensing inside porous materials and between adjacent surfaces. It’s one added advantage of building sandcastles at the seaside.

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Environmental Science

JULY 29, 2018

As with botany and several other biological sciences, zoology is relatively new as far as being an academic discipline is concerned. Zoology would eventually crossover with many areas of environmental science. Already discussed is geology, but also ecology , the prospect of environmental forcings and many other areas.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It invites contributions from various disciplines and sectors on topics such as mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, in addition to cross-cutting issues such as equity, culture, and transformation.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this article, you will learn how ISO 14000 can help businesses to adapt to our environmental crisis and how to get certified. Seas are rising and oceans are acidifying. ISO 14000 standards support and promote the incorporation of sustainable practices in business. Glaciers are melting and corals are bleaching. Author Bio.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. This anaerobic respiration has to take place where there is no oxygen, so it mainly happens in two places on Earth. And second, in the guts of animals – termites, cows and other ruminants, and us.

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