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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. UN Sustainable Development Goals – Quality Education. The initiative is also part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 – Quality Education.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Hardt, J.N.,

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

of the guidelines was revised to clarify that, while the general rule from these cases still applies, agencies should evaluate any potentially significant impacts from locating development in areas susceptible to hazardous conditions (e.g., 4th 412 (2007). See California Building Industry Association v. 4th 455 (2d. Section 15126.2

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

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