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

HumanNature

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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