Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Academy’s Malacology Collection is a priceless resource for the study of North American land and freshwater mollusks, as it holds more relevant type (or species-defining) specimens than any other. You can support the Academy’s research by becoming a member or donating to our collections. Be a force for nature!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2022

While it is often thought to apply primarily to construction projects, NEPA actually covers federal permitting of all types, and actions under many other statutes, such as the Clean Water Act, land and ocean management, and pretty much everything the federal government does that may affect the environment.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the tropical forest space, offsets—in particular those that follow rigorous jurisdictional standards like TREES or the principles in the California Tropical Forest Standard —can be an important tool for some jurisdictions, including some jurisdictions who are members of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Agenda serves as a guide and resource to the regulated community, the public, Department staff and members of the Department's advisory committees regarding the focus of the Department's policy development for the coming year.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

This new resource is designed to educate and equip community members across Pennsylvania so that they can feel empowered to advocate for themselves and effectively engage in processes that they have often felt left out.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

During the workshop, DCNR Bureau of Recreation and Conservation staff will present grant program selection criteria, review program priorities, and discuss eligible project types. The workshop is especially suited for municipal officials, consultants, board members, trail managers, land trust staff, and park and recreation professionals.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 25, 2024

HFFI Expansion: The Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program The Local and Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program, also known as the HFFI Partnerships Program, goes beyond direct financial assistance to food retailers and offers grant funds for two types of activity: capacity building and credit enhancement.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ailene Ettinger, a Quantitative Ecologist at TNC and lead scientist on the project, noted: “ In the same way that trees impact microclimate, so does the type of ground surface. Featured photo: Using a temperature logger, printed map, and their phones, TNC and partner staff members collect air temperature data.

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Conservation 98

Frontiers

APRIL 11, 2022

New study within the US Long Life Family Study identifies biomarkers characteristic for people born in – or married into – families with exceptionally long-lived members. Both groups also have a reduced risk of developing type II diabetes. developed type II diabetes over the course of the study.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

I acknowledge that I don’t have this lived experience, so being led on a toxics tour by community members who do is a powerful way to keep my work in environmental justice grounded and effective and builds fenceline understanding. in disadvantaged and underserved communities. in disadvantaged and underserved communities.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The coalition members include Canada Natural Resources Ltd, Cenovus, ConocoPhillips, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Suncor. In addition to their lobby meetings as members of Pathways Alliance, the companies that make up the coalition also lobby individually and had 22 meetings with the government in July.

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Physics World

APRIL 11, 2022

In the new work, a team of researchers led by Stefaan De Wolf at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) made a semiconductor heterojunction by sandwiching a photosensitive 3D perovskite, which converts light to electricity by creating pairs of charge carriers, between two 2D perovskite layers (one n-type and one p-type).

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Electricity Technology Technology 108

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The toolbox includes 2 types of measures: some are directed towards the Member States and proposes a set of measures for Member States to pick and choose. In both the Member States as well as the EU itself is being addressed. A second set of measures is directed towards the EU itself. 8 Communication ). 8 Communication ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

No official text has been decided, but more than 100 of the 195 countries here–including the 27-member European Union, the 39-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), and the United States–have supported the phaseout of fossil fuels, albeit with qualifiers.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Speakers will also discuss some of the types of funding currently available range from community partnerships through greening projects, environmental enhancement, and education for congregations and greater community. You'll hear from local organizations and one of our congregations on how to successfully apply for a grant.

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Natural Resources Climate Change 2024 Conservation 82

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 13, 2022

A new report released Thursday by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the 20+ member coalition Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) documents the extent and diverse nature of climate disinformation during last year’s international climate conference in Glasgow, COP26.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Dear members of the ESA community, I write to inform you of an important upcoming change to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. We will continue to publish ten monthly issues per year and four different types of peer-reviewed papers, as well as editorials, occasional commentaries, and our popular EcoPics natural history series.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson Lima, Governor of Amazonas and chair of the GCF Task Force 12th Annual Meeting, introduces the Manaus Action Plan alongside other governors and high-level representatives from member states and provinces. GCF Task Force members unanimously approved the Manaus Action Plan at a closed-door meeting on March 16.

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Deforestation Climate Change 2030 Government 130

Physics World

AUGUST 23, 2021

According to Kirsty Hansen , an acoustics expert at Flinders University, one of the most noticeable types of wind farm noise is the “swooshing” sound produced as the blades rotate. Members of the team used a combination of long-term noise monitoring and machine learning to analyse how often AM occurred.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In Fuller Acres, community members and advocates said water officials should be doing more to warn people about the presence of 1,2,3-TCP. Officials with the state water board’s Division of Drinking Water confirmed that the sentence in Spanish is all the district needs for these types of notices under current regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2024

The aquatic ecosystems of Pennsylvania are home to many types of organisms that are sometimes physiologically challenged by external environmental fluctuations, including those from anthropogenic sources. The non-member fee is $20. Click Here to become a member. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Climate Change Clean Water Act Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 77

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We held a fascinating workshop between geospatial technicians from 26 GCF Task Force member states and remote sensing providers at UCLA earlier this summer, and a key take away for me was that these advanced tools are most valuable when they can meet the decision-making needs of governments, communities, and others who are using them.

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Physics World

MARCH 25, 2022

In their work, the researchers focused on two types of graphene. In the first type, graphene is aligned crystallographically on top of another 2D material, hexagonal boron nitride, forming a material known as G/hBN. This stretching dramatically changes the material’s properties, making it easier to reach the Schwinger limit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

UCS member, Oregon. UCS member, Vermont. UCS member, Colorado. UCS member, Pennsylvania. I have developed asthma as an adult and being in the vicinity of any diesel engine is enough to set me off, but the long-term health effects for all of us from the ambient particle pollution really cannot be overstated.

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Physics World

JULY 20, 2021

In multi-user communications, it is often desirable for all parties to share a single secret key, such that each member can decrypt messages broadcast by any other member of the group. The process by which users of such a network share a key is called conference key agreement (CKA). Distributing entanglement across a distance.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The second half of the exchange focused on sharing out these experiences and comparing them to programs from other GCF Task Force member jurisdictions in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States, as well as from other participants from Bolivia, Europe, Guatemala, and elsewhere.

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Deforestation Climate Change Government Politics 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

During the Assembly’s February informational water rights hearing, Karuk Tribal Council Member Arron “Troy” Hockaday (Karuk) spoke. Council Member Hockaday’s contribution to the hearing starts around 2:11 through 2:26, and it is worth listening for yourself. The Shasta River is one of the last salmon producers for the Klamath River.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Two types of climate attribution science—event and source—are helping answer two key questions. The history of climate attribution science This current type of climate attribution has been around for about two decades, which makes it an incredibly new scientific endeavor. First, did climate change alter a given weather event?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a member and leader of March for Science NYC I have helped organize initiatives designed to enhance how science is communicated during elections and ways to increase scientists’ civic engagement. We invited academics with an interest in science communication and policy to make posters to share data in a policy relevant way.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

The result is a device that conducts electricity in only one direction when the negative terminal of a battery is connected to the n-type region, such that electrons are pushed into the p-type region. Group members Heng Wu and Yaojia Wang have now shown how to break both types of symmetry using a novel type of Josephson junction.

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Cooling Electricity 2020 Technology 111

Physics World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Subsequently, another research group found that the ZT of bromine-doped n-type single SnSe crystals was even higher, reaching 2.8 The material in this work, which the team describes in Nature Materials , is a p-type material. Indeed, the ZT of most thermoelectric materials is less than 2, while that of PbTe is around 2.5.

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Electricity Waste 2014 Technology 108

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its members’ work impacts patient care for Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, several types of brain and spine cancer, neurotrauma, and psychiatric and ophthalmological disorders. SBMT and its members have been at the forefront of neurotech innovation with pioneering research, technology, and policy.

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Technology Technology 2024 2023 122

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

Government agencies, scientific journals, the media, and members of the public have a vital role to play in safeguarding scientific integrity and stopping the spread of disinformation. So, the next you are scrolling through your social media accounts, take a moment to reflect on what types of information you are consuming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

However, mounting evidence has shown its harms to both workers and community members. Short-term, elevated exposure by inhalation can cause respiratory irritation, nausea, blurred vision, and headaches, and long-term exposure increases people’s risk of developing certain types of cancer, including white blood cell cancers and breast cancer.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2022

Allowing these types of projects in the Greenbelt is a death by a thousand cuts and will change the Greenbelt from something that is supposed to be permanently protected to a land bank for developers and corporate interests.”. A charitable organization, Ontario Nature represents more than 30,000 members and supporters,?? – 30 –.

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Politics Conservation Government 143

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

On May 21, members of the Department of Environmental Protection Northwest Regional Office attended a workshop on nonpoint source pollution at Ekey’s Florist & Greenhouse in Warren County. The rain barrels were raffled off to community members who voted during the event. Click Here to learn more, take action.]

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Conservation Environmental Protection Greenhouse 2021 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

It might seem strange that the US would import and export the same product, but different kinds of oil have very different properties, and different refineries are set up to process certain types of crude. This global nature of oil markets also means that US consumers remain vulnerable to changes in oil prices across the globe.

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