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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner

PA Environment Daily

The College’s top ranked environmental science and sustainability major engages students in interdisciplinary research and ignites their passions for making the world more equitable, just and sustainable. Cook Center housing the Department of Environmental Science.) Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science has revealed that, in addition to the influence of gradual global heating, Antarctica is increasingly affected by extreme environmental events; a recognized and predicted outcome of our heating world.

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South Mountain Partnership Now Accepting Research Grant Proposals

PA Environment Daily

The South Mountain Research Corps is seeking opportunities to support academic and student-focused research in environmental sciences, forestry, agriculture, cultural and historic resources, geology, geography, and land use planning. The deadline to apply is November 18.

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Dr. Marco Hatch: Merging Ocean Science and Community-Driven Environmental Restoration

Washington Nature

Marco believes that people can create a better world by looking to many ways of knowing, including Western science and traditional knowledge, to help nature and humans coexist. Today, he leads a resurgence in clam gardening, a sustenance staple for Samish people.

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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

Beginning in 2002, the California Legislature and state regulators have enacted countless laws to abate those destructive emissions in favor of a pivot to reliance on renewable energy sources.

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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

In his 2002 book The Philadelphia Area Weather Book , Schwartz takes readers on another journey through time to let us know what the weather’s been like lately… in a Philadelphia of 2075, after continued decades of global warming. Regionally, the Northeast is trending toward wetter summers and milder winters.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.