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NOAA Grant To Chesapeake Bay Foundation Will Boost Environmental Education In Harrisburg Region Intermediate Unit

PA Environment Daily

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Student Headed To U.S.

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ESA at COP 27: Desert Storms in the Arabian Peninsula

ESA

Samara is an atmospheric scientist and a full professor at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the co-chair of the UAE Climate Ministry Research Group. Environmental Protection Agency and her doctoral work at the University at Buffalo. She is a US citizen who did a post-doc at the U.S.

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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. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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New Exhibition Shows How We All Affect the Ocean 

Academy of Natural Sciences

Play with flippers, shark and fish toys and also reading easy books about water science. . 15, 2023 and is a key part of the Academy and Drexel’s Water Year 2022 celebration. with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. . Ocean Bound is on view Aug. 20 through Jan.

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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action

PA Environment Daily

The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere. Posted: September 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Environmental Protection Agency is leading a coalition to develop a satellite-based program to detect toxin-producing algae in lakes. Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds. First it must be verified for accuracy.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. Unfortunately, once nitrous oxide is released into the air, it sticks around for more than 100 years before beginning to break down, heating the atmosphere and depleting the ozone layer.