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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. She approached Michael E.

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out. Much of this work falls within the natural sciences.

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ESA Urges All Nations to Take Climate Action at COP28

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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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Let’s Talk about Climate Anxiety 

Academy of Natural Sciences

Lena Champlin : I am an environmental scientist and artist, currently a fourth-year doctoral student in the BEES department at Drexel University and a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences. I am interested in using artwork in outreach to teach environmental science topics to students and families.

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Reduce Energy Use At Home

Academy of Natural Sciences

When we consume less power, we reduce the amount of released toxic fumes in the air, conserve the earth’s natural resources and help protect ecosystems from destruction. By simply cutting back on energy consumption, we can reduce the amount of electricity that power plants must make and the fumes they release.

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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

Much of the pollution comes in the form of escaping methane from abandoned natural gas wells. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period. Department of the Interior.

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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’.