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The Coast Guard and Preventing Environmental Pollution

NAEP Leadership Blog

Equipped with advanced tools, these teams respond to significant environmental disasters, such as the BP oil spill in 2010, which released 205.8 Take the next step in advancing your environmental expertise with American Public University. million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C C assumes 53 percent reduction in coal consumption between 2010 and 2030, but only 20 percent reduction and 11 percent increase, respectively, in oil and gas consumption. C and an 85% chance for 2°C.

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Being in Nature: Good for Mind, Body and Nutrition

Academy of Natural Sciences

Survey participants mirrored demographic characteristics (gender, income, education and race) of Philadelphia, as of the 2010 census. The data were collected between May and August 2017. The results of the survey showed that participants with a stronger connection to nature reported a more varied diet and ate more fruits and vegetables.

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A Blueprint to Reparative Practices in the Archives

Academy of Natural Sciences

Previously, the catalog record for the collection, acquired in two separate lots and more than 110 years apart (1896 and 2010), provided limited information as to the contents of the collection and the subject matter beyond that it contains cyanotypes of plants. Lochman Papers serve as one example of this type of work.

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Allegheny College: Research Team Helps Statewide Effort In Stream Monitoring And Trout Assessment

PA Environment Daily

We also do some habitat assessments and water chemistry measurements,” said Hemmelgarn, an environmental science and sustainability major and a Spanish minor. Since its inception in 2010, the Unassessed Waters Initiative has grown tremendously. We go out and electrofish the streams and record what we find.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Their proximity struck him as a shared vulnerability that seemed to unite people. Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

Ecological Economics 69 , 2060–2068 (2010). Environmental Science & Policy 13 , 785–792 (2010). . & Costanza, R. Payments for ecosystem services: From local to global. Van Hecken, G. & & Bastiaensen, J. Payments for ecosystem services: justified or not? A political view. Adhikari, B. & & Boag, G.