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WeConservePA: Neighborhood Gardens Trust Preserves Peace Garden in North Philadelphia

PA Environment Daily

The Peace Garden was created in 2001 under the auspices of New Jerusalem Now (NJN), a nonprofit focused on addiction recovery, founded by the Medical Mission Sisters. Preserving the mature trees in the Peace Garden in an area with scarce tree cover is important to maintaining the carbon-absorbing and cooling benefits of the urban tree canopy.

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Western PA Conservancy Watershed Conservation Program Receives U.S. Forest Service Award For Decades-Long Work To Improve Water Quality In The Allegheny National Forest

PA Environment Daily

Woody material reintroduction helps mitigate flood risk downstream, ensure cool water during summer low flows and improve connections between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Also, through large woody material restoration, the Conservancy has an integral role in improving watersheds and aquatic communities in the forest.

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DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land

PA Environment Daily

If present, invasive species of plants (which are harmful to the natural ecology) and cool season grass which had been planted by mining companies and are not native to the area, are eradicated. After a site has been chosen, the goal is to try to get a blank slate on the vegetation to start over.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. Gnanadesikan et al., In his 2018 retrospective, Manabe doesn’t discuss the issue at all.

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Continuous Bose–Einstein condensate opens the door to continuous-wave atom lasers

Physics World

BECs form when a gas of bosonic atoms is cooled to ultracold temperatures. BECs were first made in 1995 and their creators were rewarded with the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics. Laser cooling is much faster and does not require most of the sample to be lost. Two-stage process. Great progress.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

This balance describes how much energy is being reflected back into space versus how much is being absorbed by our atmosphere; a positive change in the balance indicates that we’re taking more energy in (net warming) and a negative balance indicates that we’re reflecting more energy out (net cooling). link] Jacobson, Mark Z.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

As an illustrative example, the Finnish Posiva is now building a final repository for which it got a political permit (Decision-in-Principle) in 2001, and it is aimed to be operational in 2024. The time from political permit to a working facility was 23 years.