Legal Planet
JANUARY 2, 2023
The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.) This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
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Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. He is currently field chief editor of the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, who also took part in the study added what is required to make emissions decline rapidly: “ If governments respond by turbocharging clean energy investments and planting, not cutting, trees, global emissions could rapidly start to fall.”.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 2, 2021
Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. She and another GM scientist published their work and presented their findings to GM’s VP for government relations (a/k/a “head lobbyist”).
Breezometer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Nancy Colleton, president of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies , has become a globally respected leader in communicating scientific environmental information to the public. She leads numerous initiatives that promote a better understanding of our planet’s dynamic weather and climate changes. Paul Walsh. Eric Blake.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The rains were the result of a weather phenomenon known as an “atmospheric river,” a narrow column that transports water vapor from the tropics to the poles. Atmospheric rivers are projected to intensify as the climate continues to warm. Atmospheric rivers are not uncommon in the region.
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