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Frontiers in Environmental Science 2021 Editor Awards

Frontiers

We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Frontiers in Environmental Science Editor Awards. We launched the Drylands section last year , and so far we have already added two new sections in 2022 – Environmental Citizen Science and Environmental Systems Engineering.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. Environmental Protection Agency is leading a coalition to develop a satellite-based program to detect toxin-producing algae in lakes.

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New Exhibition Shows How We All Affect the Ocean 

Academy of Natural Sciences

A new exhibition this summer and fall takes visitors on an exciting journey through our watersheds to understand how everyone’s actions on land affect the ocean, even if they don’t live down the Jersey Shore. . Ocean Bound , opening Saturday, Aug. Ocean Bound , opening Saturday, Aug. Ocean Bound is on view Aug.

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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. Ten students had just listened to me explain the cascade of negative effects associated with the increasing acidification of ocean waters.

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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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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.

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Speaking Truth to Corporate Power

Legal Planet

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 met a visiting physicist from Princeton on her very first week on the job. He talked her into studying climate change.