Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Born in Johannesburg, Mendel began photographing major floods in 2007 when one in England and another in India occurred within two weeks of each other.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Anastario, et. OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, 1437. Rainey & G.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Congress directed EPA to develop a rule to “require mandatory reporting of GHG emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy.” The third disclosure regime at play in the United States comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and focuses solely on GHG emissions.

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

On 7 October 2008 a Qantas flight en route from Singapore to Australia, travelling at 11,300 m, suddenly pitched down, with 12 passengers seriously injured as a result. The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome.

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This provision may prove very important for the conservation of species imperiled by climate change, insofar as their key habitat will likely shift due to changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level rise, and other climate-related phenomena. through greenhouse gas emissions or changes in carbon sequestration).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The DEP Energy Programs Office began developing state climate action plans about 10 years ago, as required by the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008. It’s projected that more flooding will increasingly stress utility systems and roads and bridges around the state.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. Scientists say the “unusually extensive melt event” is just the latest of a string of melting events contributing to rising sea levels worldwide. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 30, 2023

Moore, we acknowledge the need for scientific research led by Black scientists who have vested interest in climate issues that directly impact Black communities, including sea level rise & nutrient pollution in our oceans. A 2008 NPR article reported over 50% of African Americans cannot swim. Photography by BIMS.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. 2008): Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

Sustainable energy – without the hot air (2008). The book predicted the threat of rising sea levels and the need to reform fresh-water management strategies to combat droughts. All point out to one certainty: Humankind has the technological tools to fix this crisis. This should cover your summer reads needs in an ample manner.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Since 2008, RGGI states successfully cut power sector emissions in half, reduced electricity prices, and outpaced the nation in economic growth, all while creating $4 billion in net economic gains, and nearly 50,000 job years of employment. RGGI has more than a long history of economic success.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Conservation Leadership - 2008 to 2020: -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019!

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As Minister Mitchell noted, “with eighty percent of [The Bahama’s] land within five feet or three meters of the sea, the sea level rise [caused by climate change] threatens our very existence.”. That this is true in a country like The Bahama’s, which has so much to lose from climate change, is both disappointing and concerning.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The FWS concluded in 2008 that the trout should be listed but reversed course in 2014 and concluded that listing was no longer warranted. The court did, however, find that the FWS failed to explain different methodologies it used in 2008 and 2014 to calculate the number of healthy populations of the trout. California v. filed Sept.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. After decades of controversy, the project was vetoed by the EPA in 2008 under the Clean Water Act. Researchers are seeing the weakening firsthand, and they warn that it could mean more extreme weather across the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM’s decision to exclude GHG emissions from its ESA jeopardy analysis can be traced back to a 2008 legal opinion for the Department of Interior (DOI) which declared that it is impossible to establish a causal connection between project-level emissions and harm to specific species and their habitats.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Real estate experts say that if that were to occur at a large scale and many home­owners abandoned their mortgages, the United States could experience a housing crisis that rivals the 2008 market meltdown and lands squarely in the laps of US taxpayers, hurting low-income people in particular.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos. On April 6, the court issued written reasons for its decision.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The court said the Commission’s staff “used well-accepted scientific methodology” and that the Commission “provided ample explanation” for the conclusion that a higher projected level of sea-level rise was more appropriate than the level for which homeowners’ consultant advocated.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

This central database entitled the National Coastal Data Information System, would help coastal communities prepare for future natural disasters through data analysis product development and the collection of maps and data on rising sea levels. This is first list of Birds of Conservation Concern released since 2008.

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