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Let’s Talk about Climate Anxiety 

Academy of Natural Sciences

Lately, there has been a lot of talk all over the world about the birds and the bees — that is, how they are impacted by the environmentally devastating effects of climate change and how humans play a role in this process. I am interested in using artwork in outreach to teach environmental science topics to students and families.

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ESA Urges All Nations to Take Climate Action at COP28

ESA

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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Through the Sands of Time: Giant Clams as Paleoclimate Timekeepers

Academy of Natural Sciences

derasa ) shell from a 1955 Palau expedition courtesy of the ANS Malacology archives collection Marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, like giant clams and corals, encounter formidable obstacles in the face of increasing acidity in the ocean. Giant clam ( T. Giant clam ( T. She approached Michael E.

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Much of this work falls within the natural sciences. Twelve years later, this seems only more so.

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Bay Journal: Massive Aid On The Way To Plug Pollution From Oil, Gas Wells In Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Act

PA Environment Daily

Climate change and pressure to throw a lifeline to communities that long survived on fossil fuel extraction provided a strong tailwind for bipartisan support. Much of the pollution comes in the form of escaping methane from abandoned natural gas wells. He was referring to the $1.2 The legislation will deliver $4.7

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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

Implicit in this position was a sense of primacy of the natural sciences – and knowledge about biophysical climatic effects – over the social and political sciences. The US argued that anything other than strictly scientific content would be ‘premature’.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Martin Grow As A Company Public Participation -- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb. Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp., . -- Save PA Forests Webinar Feb.