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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30, Brazil’s evolving environmental strategies will play a crucial role in shaping global discussions on sustainability, climate change, and conservation efforts. In 2019, the Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, raising concerns about mining safety.

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Africa’s Advisory Opinion Request: Taking Climate Justice to the Continent’s Highest Court

Law Columbia

This normative pressure may catalyze climate justice advancement across the continent, potentially compelling broader institutional engagement with climate obligations irrespective of formal ratification status.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. Maybe give them a quiz to see how much they remember. .

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20 000 channels of seismic data reveal Arctic climate change

Physics World

I had done some previous work in Alaska using traditional seismometers to listen to permafrost melting, so when the first examples of DAS on the sea floor came out late in 2019, I thought, “I wonder if there’s a telecoms networks up in Alaska where I could try this under the sea ice?”.

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Enormous cost of relocating US climate refugees from coastal town a stark example for the whole world, researchers warn

Frontiers

Ultimately, sea level rise will force people to migrate to higher ground, creating climate change refugees. Soon, these Americans, inhabitants of the last isolated fishing community in Virginia, will become climate change refugees, forced to relocate,” said lead author David Schulte, College of William and Mary, US.

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As coral reefs are in demise, a new one is discovered near Tahiti?

A Greener Life

In addition, the organisms that live on the reefs can be further used as they can be important for medical research, and can also provide protection from coastal erosion and tsunamis. As coral reefs are an important food source for other organisms, locating them can aid research around biodiversity.