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Great Barrier Reef Is Hit by Another Mass Bleaching Event

Yale E360

Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.

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Landowners Vanquished by the Discovery Rule

Energy & the Law

The events: 2002 and 2004: Mustafa and Lahijani purchase land on which the Bash #1 well is located. 2002 : Americo acquires the 1937-era oil and gas lease on the land. June 2017: Tests indicate the property is contaminated from oil and gas operations. The two-year statute of limitations barred the landowners’ claim.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas.

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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002. In 2017, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (USA) and in 2020, co-founded the spin-off Nanostine. He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.:

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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X-ray emissions from Uranus are detected for the first time

Physics World

Through new analysis of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dunn’s team have identified three clear X-ray signals originating from Uranus: first in 2002, and then on two consecutive days in 2017. These observations are particularly interesting because of the planet’s unique orientation.

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