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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science has revealed that, in addition to the influence of gradual global heating, Antarctica is increasingly affected by extreme environmental events; a recognized and predicted outcome of our heating world. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Environment, Law, and History

H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969.

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Supreme Court Granted Certiorari to a Clean Water Act Case: Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui

Vermont Law

The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean. The United States District Court for the District of Hawai‘i ruled in favor of the environmental organizations. Wells are among the CWA’s list of point source examples. GLENN ET AL.,

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Policy News: October 10, 2022

ESA

White House : The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council on Environmental Quality are requesting input to inform the development of a U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan. NOAA NMFS – Joint Council Workgroup for Section 102 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018 (Oct. 14 to 21, 2022.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. One 2018 study combined on-site and aircraft measurements to estimate US oil and gas sector emissions about 60 percent higher than in the official emissions inventory. And second, in the guts of animals – termites, cows and other ruminants, and us.

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ESA Policy News: August 16, 2021

ESA

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Commerce, Science and Transportation. The world has already warmed 1.1

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Sponsored Content. Fishing rights are one of these issues.