Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2024
Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. Just like the current fires in Texas, the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico was, at the time, the state’s largest fire on record at 156,000 acres. The lab conducts research to maintain the US nuclear stockpile among other missions.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 30, 2021
As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. chance of happening in any given year, respectively.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. The Governor signed notable new laws designed to address the housing affordability crisis, with GHG reduction co-benefits. A Few Notable Vetoes.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2022
As Associate Director for the Natural Hazards Mission Area since 2011, he is responsible for USGS’s geologic hazard programs, including coordination of the bureau’s hazard response activities, as well as the bureau’s coastal and marine program, which plays a critical role in analyzing the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Thus, it is crucial to understand how placing the environment alongside notions of security shapes the way environmental issues are understood and also governed by whom and for whom. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C.,
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean. After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. The conflict in . Darfur began because of an ecological crisis.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 26, 2021
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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