Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Before European colonization, genocide, and the forced removal of Indigenous communities from their land, fires ignited by Indigenous people and those ignited by lightning regularly burned in these regions, creating a mosaic of forested areas, bare ground, woodlands, and grasslands across the landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the summer of 2003 , a culmination of seemingly small failures by the power grid, its monitoring software, and human operators quickly cascaded into the largest blackout to ever occur in North America. Working with NERC are six affiliated regional entities that have very similar authority to NERC but for a smaller region.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

An interview with María Antonieta Jáquez Huacuja from the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and Martha Mariana Mendoza Basulto from the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). A handful of nations in the global north dominate decisions around nuclear weapons.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2022

As water crises beset North America, all eyes are on the Great Lakes and the leaders, systems, and rules that govern them. Let Circle of Blue reporters guide you through the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

One hundred thousand people are displaced after ethnic clashes broke out in northern Cameroon earlier this month—the latest escalation of water-fuelled tensions in the region. The most recent wave of violence originated in the village of Ouloumsa in Cameroon’s Far North region.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

“Every region behaves differently,” Hallegraeff, an emeritus professor at the University of Tasmania, told Circle of Blue. This work shows very clearly that we need to study this problem region by region and species by species. Though lacking proof of a global trend, the study did find evidence of regional variations.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Human-caused climate change is making droughts more severe – and could shift some regions of North America into permanent drought conditions

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. There are a handful of high-impact “tipping points” that could drastically change global or regional water cycles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 28, 2023

Widespread heat alerts cover parts of the US South and Midwest regions on June 28, 2023. By midcentury, with no action to address global heat-trapping emissions, much of the region experiencing triple-digit temperature this week would see a tripling of the frequency of such heat.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 28, 2023

A new study suggests the threat of flooding rains, landslides and erosion has been underestimated, especially in high-elevation and snow-dominated regions. By Bob Berwyn A global increase of extreme precipitation, well outside the range of natural variability , has been well-documented by scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

Phillips provided a compelling scientific perspective that reinforced the urgency of addressing climate change as a threat multiplier and clarified the disproportionate impact of climate change on the Americas. You can watch the full testimony here. Citing this evidence, she made the case for the need to regulate business activities.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 8, the North American Electric Reliability Corp issued its 2023-24 Winter Reliability Assessment which finds much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 6, 2021

In South America, snowfall on the Andes Mountain range is at a historic low. Regional drought is found on most continents around the world. An article in Nature Climate Change found that regional drought can be found on most continents. Ranch cattle are starving to death in Mexico amid a historic drought. ON THE RADAR.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. ” Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction in North America to ban fossil fuel extraction. April 19, 2022. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. In the News. and Canada.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 22, 2022

Using unique research and analysis, Reloop North America is conducting a multi-year campaign in the Northeast to educate legislators, support advocates, and guide industry on adhering to a set of high-performance principles that can modernize deposit return systems, delivering environmental and cost benefits to individual states and the region as a (..)

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They often feature detailed coverage on the geology of a specific locale or region. In addition to including geologic maps and stratigraphic columns that convey the scientific details, other geographic information such … Continue reading Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America. Our understanding on how regional climates will unfold in the future is very limited and the outcomes are uncertain. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced a third and final wave of more than $1 billion for cleanup projects from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at more than 100 Superfund sites across the country as part of the Investing in America agenda.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new Pew Research Center survey in 17 advanced economies spanning North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region finds widespread concern about the personal impact of global climate change. Read the full story from the Pew Research Center.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Warmer temperatures and increasing drought severity associated with climate change are contributing to more frequent and more severe wildfires across North America. forested regions of the Upper Midwest, including Minnesota, are maintained through … Continue reading Wildfires contribute to nutrient-rich, murky water in lakes

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PBS Nature

JANUARY 27, 2022

From these ancient beginnings, Equus spread around the globe, but mysteriously went extinct in North America. Emerging from regional patterns of work, culture, tradition and geography, these signature breeds each made their mark on the nation.

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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. The land Mollusca of the entire continent of North America north of Mexico were studied and classified by the Academy’s Henry A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The latest IPCC is a definitive signal to the courts that climate change is not just a problem of the future, it is already harming people in every region of the planet. This is true for a wide variety of impacts, including heat extremes on land and in the ocean, floods, regional drought, and wildfire.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

The goal of the partnership is to increase the adoption of agroforestry and tree crop systems in North America. We need regional examples where farmers can gather and learn, paired with financial incentives that make land transitions feasible.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

That yearly event depends on many weather-related factors in the region. The result was that Hurricane Harvey rainfall exceeded the 1000-year extreme precipitation for the Houston metro region. Southwestern North America just logged the driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years. We can do better.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, there was a lot more multi-decadal variability in the Arctic and North Atlantic than was present in the global temperature record. An areal weighting of the four regional time series might be justifiable, but that isn’t what’s done. An equal weighting of all four regions (yes, seriously) does go into the mix.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are five Great Lakes in North America: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The Great Lakes hold 84 per cent of North America’s surface freshwater, provide drinking water for over 40 million people, and support billion-dollar economies. The Great Lakes.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

As water crises beset North America, all eyes are on the Great Lakes and the leaders, systems, and rules that govern them. Let Circle of Blue reporters guide you through the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. ON THE HILL: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beaver once numbered in the hundreds of millions across North America, were nearly extirpated in the late 1890’s, but have recently seen their numbers increase in many regions across North America. Another interesting presentation, by Scott McGill, was about beaver! Video of Award Presentation To Tim Ference.]

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

An interactive media exhibit that shows five migratory birds that pass through the Philadelphia region on their seasonal passage between North and South America. Informal presentations by a diverse range of regional birding groups and participatory poetry workshops by Drexel’s Writer’s Room on select Saturday afternoons.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

New partnership announcements Our first consortium partnership in North America is now live, with a new flat fee model agreed with the University of California. Corresponding UC authors will receive unlimited publishing in 19 specified Frontiers journals for a pre-agreed annual flat fee. market Julia Kotova.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 10, 2023

We’ve left the Athabasca region and the destructive tar sands. Once extracted, crude oil is shipped thousands of kilometres from Alberta to refineries and petrochemical plants across North America (including Sarnia, Ontario) to make plastics and other chemical products.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

Solar panels in the Bavarian Holledau region in Au, Germany. These figures were mainly driven by Chinese and Indian demand, while in Europe and North America, demand declined. Most of the growth comes from North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

IPCC authors in the past have been skewed towards men working in the physical sciences in Europe and North America. Several delegates, including from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Iraq, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Niger pointed out the gaps caused by lack of updated or detailed regional data for their countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

I remember that Hurricane Sandy struck the New York City region in 2012 and know that the home buyout programs may not have reduced the vulnerability of buyout recipients to hazards. Human-caused climate change is increasing hot extremes around the world, including across much of North America. These areas are shown in pink.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The well problem extends even to the northern plains, where drillers in Minnesota and North Dakota report year-long waiting lists. Droughts are now worse mainly in dry areas, such as the Mediterranean basin, western North America, and southern Africa. One driller told the Bemidji Pioneer that drought is not the only issue.

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Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Read original article Download original article (pdf) The first known chytridiomycosis epizootics occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s in western North America, in the late 1990s in Central America and Australia, and in the early 2000s in South America.

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