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Academy and Drexel Host America’s First Local Conference of Youth

Academy of Natural Sciences

Since 2005, young people from all over the world have submitted a Global Youth Statement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s Conference of Parties (COP), the U.N.’s 23 through Sunday, Sept. s Climate Change Conference.

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Reduce Energy Use At Home

Academy of Natural Sciences

Energy Information Administration, in 2015 more than 76 million American households (64%) used a central air-conditioning system, an increase from less than 66 million households (59%) in 2005. And with increasingly irregular climate conditions, this number is only rising.

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Changing Water, Changing Climate

Academy of Natural Sciences

Transport of warm water revealed by the sea surface temperature distribution around the Gulf Stream in 2005. It then returns along the seabed in the opposite direction, to be raised and energized once more at the equator. By adding more heat to surface waters, global warming will change its course, speed and influence.

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Plastic-free Philly, Philly’s Solution to Plastic Pollution

Academy of Natural Sciences

Now the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the Philadelphia Water Department and BOMA Philadelphia are teaming up to put a lid on single-use plastic water bottles. Fountain of Life” by Emilio Maldonado of Philadelphia, at One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street. at 1900 Market Street. Through Jan.

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Honoring the Silvermans: Creating a Passionate Community For the Love of All Living Things 

Academy of Natural Sciences

I really enjoyed my time as a Silverman intern,” says Ramon Torres, winner of the 2005 award who is now the web coordinator at the Academy, putting his institutional knowledge and volunteer experience to work in the digital realm. “I’m I’m really grateful to be a part of such a great group of people.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

Tory peer and former party treasurer Lord Michael Spencer, who has donated £6 million to the Conservatives since 2005, holds an 18.8 Lord Lilley told DeSmog that he is a “strong supporter” of the GWPF, but said that it was not a “climate science denier organisation”. “I percent (£1.8