A Greener Life

JUNE 5, 2025

This year, the Republic of Korea is the host country, urging global action to end plastic waste and build a sustainable future. According to the UNEP , approximately 400 million tonnes of plastic waste are generated annually. Plastic pollution is found everywhere: in rivers, oceans, soil and even in our bodies through microplastics.

2025

Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hannah works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to manage the International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), a global network of local groups using trash traps to increase cleanup efforts, engage communities and inform upstream solutions. The post The Truth About Plastic Fragments appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Groups and individuals are cleaning up their favorite shared public spaces through Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania Program , supporting the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. The International Cleanup is an initiative to keep trash from reaching our waterways and oceans.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 26 PA Bulletin announcing an August 28 public meeting/hearing on the Waste Permit Modification submitted for the Environmental & Recycling Services, Inc. Construction/Demolition Waste Landfill located in Taylor Borough, Lackawanna County. ( Read more here.

Waste

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

Two, in particular, warrant special attention: (1) the issue of knowledge , and (2) the so-called drop in the ocean argument. 51) Or, to use the popular image of the “drop in the ocean,” the drop should not be assessed in relation to the entire ocean, but in relation to other drops.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 24, 2025

In fact, before I was an ocean plastics guy, I was a shark guy. There is still much more to learn and understand about the interactions and effects of plastics on sharks, but what is known raises concerns about the long-term impacts of plastic ingestion on shark health and ocean health more broadly. See more wonderful ocean animals!

Ocean

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. on land or in the ocean), and the nature and location of their impacts. Background on Atmospheric Methane Removal Methane concentrations in the atmosphere have grown 2.5 Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C

Atmosphere

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

” But, she adds, the benefits of nurturing a local textile industry are many: more transparent supply chains, support for local economies and regenerative farming practices, less waste, fewer emissions, and a profound sense of community and interconnectedness. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1 percent of the world’s arable land.

Upcycling

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tackle one of the biggest threats facing our ocean: plastic pollution. Widely known as the “global plastics treaty,” this agreement aims to curb the global plastic pollution crisis, of which the ocean often bears the brunt. As an official U.N. There is still time to right this ship.

Ocean

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They also reduce waste and inefficiencies strategies that safeguard operations and protect employees, customers, and communities during crises. Blue acceleration: the mounting competition for ocean resources As the world grows increasingly volatile, resilience must transcend its status as a buzzword.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

28 Meeting/Hearing On Waste Permit Modification For ERSI Construction/ Demolition Waste Landfill In Taylor Boro, Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 6 Hearing, Sept.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

MAY 21, 2025

Those are daunting statistics for a body of water that looks, even fleetingly, more like ocean than lake a graveyard of shipwrecks as vast as Austria. Here, he stands at the former site of the plant, where he remembers how the waste was discharged into the bay and harbour. I dont think anybody would let this happen again, he says.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

And its not just that as much 40 percent of the oceans surface is now covered in plastic with billions of tons being added every day. Because now, thanks to The Waste Authority in Monroe County , you can recycle them. The new extra plastic recycling is available at The Waste Authoritys location at 1114 Military Road, Stroudsburg, PA.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

This put American lives and livelihoods at risk and wasted taxpayer dollars. My colleagues have raised concerns already about President-elect Trumps picks to lead the EPA , the Department of Housing and Urban Development , and the Department of Justice , and why the new NOAA administrator must understand and advocate for science.

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

For example, warmer air and oceans are contributing to more intense hurricanes , with record-breaking amounts of rain and rapidly intensifying windspeeds. And unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land, or waterways.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

One idea to prevent this CO 2 being released back into the atmosphere is to bury the waste biomass under conditions that prevent or slow decomposition, thereby trapping the carbon underground for centuries. To count as CDR, the biomass must reach the deep ocean where the carbon has the potential to be sequestered durably.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

2010

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

Equitrans was charged Thursday with 14 counts of unlawful conduct, prohibition against discharge of industrial wastes, and prohibition against other pollutions from its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County. Bloomberg News called the Rager Mountain gas leak the worst US climate disaster in 2022.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 10, 2025

AAS: How have weather and climate scientists stepped up in fighting cuts to federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others? Pursuing that love, I went on to study and earn my PhD in atmospheric science. AAS: Tell us about your role in organizing the epic 100-hour weather and climate livestream.

Climate Scientist

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. These facilities consume vast amounts of electricity and water because their servers work nonstop and in close proximity—and they generate waste heat as a by-product, which can damage equipment and destroy data.

Wind Power

Environmental News Bits

MAY 12, 2025

John Todds eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans. Read the full story in The Guardian.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. 5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. For Friendship, Here’s Why Researchers Are Concerned -- Utility Dive: A.I.- High School As Renovation Work Continues -- DEP Sets Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

With funding from the DEP Coastal Resource Management, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is continuing its collaboration with numerous individuals, organizations, and businesses to actively address and combat litter that makes its way into the waters of Presque Isle Bay, Lake Erie, and ultimately the ocean.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

The rule had been challenged by the city of San Francisco, whose permit to discharge sewage from its combined sewer system into the Pacific Ocean included general limits and non-specific conditions meant to protect the oceans water quality. According to Al Jazeera, Kabwe is considered one of the worlds most polluted places.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Now we can’t do anything about it and of course greenhouse gases are pollutants that are emitted from the tailpipe of cars that are warming up our planet, our oceans, fueling these 1-in-100-year hurricanes that were seeing twice a year, come in and unleash devastation loss of life and billions of dollars in 5 different states back to back.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2025

Hannah works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to manage the International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), a global network of local groups using trash traps to increase cleanup efforts, engage communities and inform upstream solutions. Love ocean content? hard fragments, lighters, buttons) or fishing lines.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. Scientists say that global warming affects ocean circulation in various ways. The Northern U.S. Critics, including the U.S.

2018

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

So this school year, Bentz made chronic wasting disease , a contagious, fatal brain infection in deer, the focus of the ecosystem unit. She showed her students video clips of old news reports tracking the rise of chronic wasting disease in the Commonwealth. Even better, they were talking about chronic wasting disease outside of class.

Environmental Science

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

California, he falsely claimed, was letting water flow into the Pacific Ocean rather than using it to douse fires. Trump claimed the beautiful water would help Los Angeles, but in fact it was wasted. The reality was much different. Local reservoirs, by and large, had adequate water.

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. Red states and industry trade groups immediately challenged the rule.

Climate Change

Yale E360

JUNE 18, 2025

With “fast fashion,” retailers are selling a larger volume of cheaper clothing, leading to more waste. Marks & Spencer and Primark currently run take-back schemes to address waste. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans? consumers now get rid of 1.5 Next did not respond to a request for comment.

Sea Level

Yale E360

JUNE 18, 2025

With “fast fashion,” retailers are selling a larger volume of cheaper clothing, leading to more waste. Marks & Spencer and Primark currently run take-back schemes to address waste. consumers now get rid of 1.5 million tons of clothing yearly, and Ghana is the top destination for their discarded garments.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2025

The moves are wasteful, harmful, egregious, ill- or uninformedand in many cases, illegal. The moves are wasteful, harmful, egregious, ill- or uninformedand in many cases, illegal. And they are devastatingly costly, not just in wasted taxpayer dollars, but in human lives.

Government

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So Nuclear Regulatory Commission-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; Energy Reorganization Act of 1974; and Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 23, 2025

The annual forecasts, largely funded with $20 million annually from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provided water quality regulators and public health authorities in the U.S. The consequences are ugly.

2016

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Rivers and bays were scrubbed of municipal and industrial waste. Toxic waste dumps closed and were cleaned up. What Trump and Congress are executing, in full view , is the most brutal assault in U.S. history on the interlocking laws and regulations that have made America cleaner, safer, and more prosperous.

Endangered Species Act

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

The US government was testing bombs over the Nevada desert, and even more potent bombs in and near islands in the Pacific Ocean, where residents have been forced to leave. She went back to forecasting, working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. It seems fitting to remember June this year in particular.

Atmosphere