Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2022

Flames tower above the trees in the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. The third most destructive fires in state history, it burned nearly 350 homes (Airman Magazine, Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0).

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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2005 2012 Renewable Energy 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Emissions from electricity generation (and for using EVs) have dropped dramatically The first UCS analysis of the emissions from EV driving in 2012 showed promise for EVs, but the emissions for some parts of the country were equal to the efficient non-hybrid gasoline cars of the time.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels 2012 Climate Change 336

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

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Waste 2012 Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 246

Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

White rhinos saw their numbers grow for the first time since 2012 last year, boosted by efforts to restore the creatures to the African landscape. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

MAY 21, 2021

A new study estimates that roughly $8 billion of the $63 billion in damages caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 can be attributed to sea level rise of just four inches caused by global warming. Read more on E360 ?.

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Sea Level 2012 186

Yale E360

APRIL 14, 2023

Since 2012, more than half of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurred on private lands, according to a new study highlighting the impact of Brazil's landowner-friendly policies. Read more on E360 →

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Deforestation 2012 178

Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Another incident report from Orland this month estimated the cost of drilling a new well at $20,000.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Between 1958 and 2012, the heaviest 1 percent of storms in the Midwest became 37 percent more powerful. “You add that amount of moisture, now you’re talking a large amount of additional rainfall,” Kunkel said. As a result, extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent in wetter areas like Detroit.

Atmosphere 350

Atmosphere Ocean Climate Change 2012 350

New Scientist

APRIL 9, 2024

He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94.

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2012 145

Nanotech

APRIL 11, 2024

B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) for “Harmonizing TSCA Consent Orders with OSHA HCS 2012,” a complimentary webinar covering case studies and practical applications of merging the requirements for consent order language on the Safety Data Sheet (SDS). Register now to join Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®)

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2012 Toxic Substances Control Act 2024 Environmental Protection 59

New Scientist

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A study estimating humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific Ocean from crowdsourced photos reveals a sharp decline from 2012 to 2021 after decades of slow population growth

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2012 Ocean 2021 142

Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

3d,f,h showing a shift towards more cold extremes in the northern mid-latitudes (20-50ºN) from the mid-1990s to 2012. It is clear that the data drop out impacts the 1995-2012 trend, turning a slight positive trend into a large (and spurious) downward trend in line with the results shown by Cohen et al.

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Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

2012) described the issues as ‘mysterious’, but efforts to better correct the record for non-climatic effects soon bore fruit, and the ‘mystery’ became history ( Maycock et al., 692-697, 2012. Thompson et al. Thompson, D.J. Seidel, W.J. Long, and R. Maycock, W.J. Randel, A.K. Steiner, A.Y. Karpechko, J.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. Here are a few details about the four bills: House Bill 2021 creates the emission reduction mandate. It’s a complex piece of legislation, and I’ll only mention some of the provisions.

Fossil Fuels 264

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2010 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

Scientists calculated the added economic damage inflicted on the region by the additional, climate-change driven water levels in 2012, and found that sea level rise caused an additional roughly $8.1 Hurricane Sandy is a stark example of storm surge damage in a highly-developed region, made worse by rising seas.

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Sea Level Ocean Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide 341

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I learned more about the depth and breadth of Justice Hobbs’ dedication when I clerked for him during the 2012–2013 Colorado Supreme Court term. . It gave me an initial window into his commitment to gearing his life and work toward making a positive difference in the lives of others. He took seriously—and delighted in—his role as a mentor.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The background In 2012 mineral lessee Swift and landowners the Quintanilla Ranch and the Dickinson Ranch sued Regency Field Services (now ETC) for tort and trespass in connection with Regency’s H2S disposal well. ETC moved to dismiss based on Ageron’s lack of standing, arguing that the H2S claims accrued in 2012 to the Dickinson Ranch owners.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

2012) to understand why such small samples give non-robust and insufficient information for making regional future projections. 775-779, 2012. Another detail is the data behind Figure SPM.3, 3, which is from small samples of global climate models (sample size of 5-15) prone to “the law of small samples”. Solomon, and A.S.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 2012 292

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. The analysis showed, however, that overall evaluations of environmental losses from hydropower dams have increased since 2012.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The 2012 MS4 Permit in a Nutshell. The MS4 permit currently in effect was issued in 2012 and re-adopted the receiving water limitations—or the maximum amount of a pollutant that may be added to a specified water body—from the earlier permit established in 2001. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court. The Proposed 2021 MS4 Permit.

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2012 Law Natural Resources 2018 130

Physics World

JULY 4, 2022

Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. In the July episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester revisits that historic day in 2012. Everyone knew something big was coming. He’s joined by two guests who were there at the particle physics lab in Geneva to live through that memorable day.

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2012 119

Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

The issue is created by a 2012 Supreme Court. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners. That’s the adaptation dilemma: preparing for climate disaster is legally disfavored.

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Government 2012 Climate Change Regulations 263

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2012 Paris Agreement 241

Real Climate

MAY 31, 2023

2012) who demonstrated that one model with slight differences in the atmospheric initial conditions can give widely different decadal regional outlooks due to pronounced chaotic variability. 2012) describe. 775-779, 2012. Red for CMIP5 and blue for CMIP5 – ERA5 trends are repeated twice as big black circular symbols.

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Sea Level 2012 Atmosphere 2023 197

Inside Climate News

JULY 27, 2021

judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist. By Marianne Lavelle A Washington, D.C.

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2012 Climate Scientist Conservation Climate Change 119

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet.

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Climate Change Rainforest 2012 2016 242

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ke-Ágnes Horvát from Northwestern University in the US, the study examined the gender of scientists who had at least one research article shared online in 2012 according to Altmetric , which tracks mentions of journal papers across social media, news sites, blogs and other sites. difference between article mentions and publication trends.

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2012 115

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

Born between 1999 and 2012, these youths argued that the adverse effects of climate change, such as heatwaves and wildfires , pose a threat to their right to life. Portuguese youth must first seek justice nationally In a separate case, six Portuguese youth brought attention to the urgency of addressing climate change through legal avenues.

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Climate Change Government Law 2012 265

Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

Cutter was the chair of a 2012 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on disaster resilience. According to FEMA, at the beginning of July there were 2,133 households in the parish living in temporary housing units. These problems were foreseen.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 3, 2021

A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two states with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, this type of matter has now been created inside a quantum computer built by Google

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2012 106

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Additionally, it is significant that the number of farms reporting use of cover crops is steady from 2017 and a 15% increase from 2012, despite the overall decline in the number of farms during this time period.

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Conservation 2022 2012 2017 105

Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

Though that percentage is down slightly since early spring, this year is still the largest expanse of drought in the country since 2012-13. Fifty percent of the land area in the Lower 48 states is experiencing moderate drought or worse this week. According to the U.S.

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Physics World

JULY 1, 2022

This short film looks back at that historic moment in particle physics in 2012, and looks forward to the future of particle physics. The upcoming third run of collisions will be at 13.6 trillion electron volts – close to the machine’s full capability.

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New Scientist

APRIL 10, 2024

Since 2012, Mary Jo Hoffman has taken one snap a day of the natural objects around her. She explains what lies behind two of them - and what the "art of noticing" has brought to her life

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2012 94

New Scientist

APRIL 4, 2023

Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a review has revealed the lasting physical and mental health impacts of this policy

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2012 100

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed. A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. (b)

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Greenhouse Air Pollution 2012 Renewable Energy 240