Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How were grad student volunteers able to help delay a multi-billion dollar project? Attending a presentation given by ScAAN was the inspiration that drove then-graduate student Linnea Saby to start V-SCI with a handful of peers at the University of Virginia. The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), now a $6.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As US climate litigation grows and people around the world simultaneously prepare for the upcoming UN climate negotiations in Egypt, it is critical to examine the role that obstruction has played in the global policy arena and explore how science can help to advance discussions of accountability and justice.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

The question and answer session with residents during the August 15 public meeting on the results of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health studies on the health impacts of shale gas development in Southwest Pennsylvania resulted in some very frank statements by the state Department of Health. I completely agree. “We

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

DEP issued notices of violations for the spill of residual waste and requested a written report from EQT by September 14, 2023 on how the area would be cleaned up. DEP issued notices of violations for the spill of residual waste and requested a written report from EQT by September 14, 2023 on how the area would be cleaned up.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 28, 2022

I had a pleasure of speaking with Aliyah Griffith , PhD student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill , about her journey into marine science, setbacks, and achievements. So, how was Aliyah’s initial interest in marine science ignited? Photo credit: Frank Griffith. allowing us to realize there are more of us than we thought.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

This year and next, Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, is a centerpiece for water supplies in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the early 2000s, I sat down at a desk in Durham University library and, behind a tower of ageing books, I began researching my undergraduate dissertation. My topic was the discovery that the matter in the Milky Way galaxy , and indeed the universe, is mostly composed of a mysterious and invisible substance called “ dark matter ”.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Did the bombings save lives by forestalling a US invasion of Japan? As with all counterfactuals, the answers to these questions are unknowable, but that has not prevented armchair historians from debating them, with diminishing returns (though not, alas, diminishing enthusiasm from book publishers). Not so in 1945.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this interview, our discussion is focused on how culture and tradition amongst families affect our decisions to pursue a career completely outside the expectations of our parents. Furthermore, we focus on the importance of taking big leaps of faith as well as how taking these leaps allows you to discover your own hidden talents.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Her motivation is her lifelong drive to understand the universe, which began in childhood with a quirky choice of bedroom decoration. I’m now actually using those distances to prove how dark energy is changing or shaping the way we see the universe.”. Even then ?– ?before

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Physics World

APRIL 28, 2021

A team headed up at Western University in Canada has found three brown dwarfs that are spinning faster than ever seen before – completing a full rotation once per hour. Like stars and planets, brown dwarfs are already spinning at the beginning of their lifetime. So why are brown dwarfs so interesting? Bright spots.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a story about one Black woman’s life-long journey to silence a harmful message that she did not belong. This is a story about how the Black in Marine Science Institute came to be & TNC’s small part in it. We celebrate the BIMS Institute, a joyful place for meaningful discovery, innovation, and belonging.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. ————————. In international news, this week marks the start of a critical UN climate conference, known as COP26. Leaders meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, have three main issues on the agenda. The third topic is more controversial.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

5) reversed a judgment upholding the adequacy of the EIR for the University of California, Berkeley’s long range campus development plan (“LRDP”) and a controversial housing development project at the historic People’s Park. Regents of University of California (Resources for Community Development, Real Party in Interest) (2023 Cal.App.5th.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Chase Puentes, Masters of Marine Affairs Candidate 2022, University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affair s. Most notably, many farmers in Washington have expressed concerns surrounding the CREP, and how the program could impact their livelihoods. The Stilliguamish River. Photo by Hannah Letinich.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He did some of the consultancy groundwork on what became President Biden’s infrastructure plan. We’re used to thinking of enclosure in terms of land, but here we see how time, language, genes, or the magnetic spectrum, were all turned into resources that could be monetised, privatised and run through the lens of efficiency and profit.

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Physics World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As to how the water helps the sand grains stick together, well that’s a question that touches on the ancient Egyptians, Lord Kelvin and the Nobel laureate Andre Geim, as Ian Randall discovers. We’re intellectuals teasing out nature’s secrets, developing critical technologies, or educating the next generation of scientists.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Petro Erie Cleanup Barely Started In Venango County On August 29, 2023 , DEP did a follow up inspection of the Lower Reno 6 conventional oil well and wastewater tanks operated by Petro Erie Inc. The full announcement is on the Aqua PA Venango webpage. The Pointe also made available a washer and dryer.

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Physics World

JULY 24, 2021

Such a question had never occurred to me when I embarked on my BSc in physics at Jahangirnagar University , in my home country of Bangladesh. As a child I had been curious about how things work, breaking my electric toys to get to the motor and making my own bicycle rearlight. Casting the net wide.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

The questions — the mental calculations for basic needs — are relentless. Well, it is stressful, of course, because you can’t really live a functional life without water,” said Summer, who did not want her real name to be used in order to keep her personal struggles private. water systems are aging.

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Physics World

JULY 10, 2021

Hawking Hawking begins with a chapter entitled “Next to Newton”, which describes both the position Hawking occupies in the public psyche and his physical burial place in Westminster Abbey in London, where his ashes were interred following his death in March 2018 at the age of 76.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers at the University of Washington and The Nature Conservancy are taking this work a step further, exploring innovative tools to galvanize high-impact stormwater solutions and address prioritization challenges including project placement, equitable impacts, and limited data availability. The Q-Methodology.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

The studies were designed to answer this study question: “Does living near unconventional gas development activities or other environmental hazards in Southwestern Pennsylvania increase the risk for specific health issues?” For perspective, the incidence of lymphoma is, on average, 0.0012% in US children under 20 years of age.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Temple University is launching a new program to help families living near their campuses in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Ambler to connect with nature and the fun of the outdoors to take advantage of nature’s healing benefits through HOOT - Healing Ourselves Outdoors Together. Take a walk through the woodlands. Travel a nature trail.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

This occurred on June 19, 2022, and it did not take long for people who live nearby to notice the possible effects from this incident. I reached out to Dr. John Stolz of Duquesne University, who quickly responded and began independent water testing of his own on June 27th.

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Physics World

JULY 23, 2021

The event in question is The Mirror Trap , a one-person online show that took place in June as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. But this is far from a dry physics tutorial – the idea of the show is that participants begin to experience optical illusions as they look in the mirror. Courtesy: Simon Watt).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

DEP issued a notice of violation for failure to plug wells upon abandoning them and requested the operator to submit a written report by September 28, 2023 on how it plans to bring the well into compliance. [ DEP requested the operator to submit a written report by October 14, 2023 on how it will bring the well into compliance. [

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The questions The General Assembly requested the ICJ render an opinion on the following questions: (a) What are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG) for States and for present and future generations?

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ESA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

By Dennis Ojima Dubai, UAE CoP28 Day 2 thematic area is Nature, Land Use, and Oceans I have fallen in with Gillian’s (Gillian Browser, Colorado State University) morning ritual of arriving at the CoP28 complex before the crowds do. She shares her findings with me and many others of the YEAH students and partners attending the CoP.

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Frontiers

APRIL 25, 2022

Today, we speak to Elodie Vandelle , Associate Professor in Plant Pathology at the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Verona , who is involved in studying the interaction between plants and pathogenic microorganisms. Did you think of becoming a phytopathologist as a kid? Why the kiwifruit? Absolutely not!

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

There he learned how to paddle a canoe and swim. Though Hanse did not get the job, he says it led him to a different job in the hospitality industry. As a result, Hanse was able to extract himself from the poverty and joblessness that permeates Dunoon and begin earning a decent income in guest services in the United Arab Emirates.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m. 27 releases. Read more here.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Barton is a forest and fire ecologist, a writer, and a biology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. My wife, Sarah Sloane, did her part in documenting such impacts, finding that 50% of the nestling clutches in Bushtit — a tiny and very social bird — nests died during the heat dome.). (My by Andrew Barton.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

They are also a result of poor decisions about where to build, what to subsidize, or how to allocate land and water. The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth. Economies were not spared.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Dr Karen Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. in Anthropology from Harvard University, her current research is based in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil, studying one of the world’s most endangered primates, the Northern muriqui. With a Ph.D.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Solar panels on the rooftop and car park of a secondary school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Many such projects allow users to generate their own electricity and sell the surplus back to the grid. Photo credit: Energe. By Javier Lewkowicz Distributed generation and local actors are boosting renewables, democratising energy and reducing bills.

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

The dream of seeing an organ – or the entire human body – with micron or near-micron resolution has simply been out of the question, whether you are a specialist or not. If we want to understand a new topic, we don’t buy a textbook – most of the basics are waiting for us on Wikipedia. But what about medical images? Not any more.

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