Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Tomorrow, April 2nd, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) will perform the last open-to-the-media snow survey of the year. These seasonal snow surveys offer a health check-up for our water system. In California, snow surveys help the state forecast and manage the year’s water supply. feet—over 200% above the average!

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Yale E360

JANUARY 31, 2023

Temperatures are rising faster than many species can evolve to cope with them, posing a long-term threat to their survival. But new research suggests an evolutionary shortcut to adaptation: breed with closely related species that can better stand the heat. Read more on E360 →

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 6, 2023

Tibet is known as the ‘Water Tower of Asia,’ providing water to about 2 billion people and supporting critical ecosystems in High Mountain Asia and the Tibetan Plateau, where many of the largest Asian river systems originate.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

As sea levels continue to rise as climate change accelerates, experts in coastal cities are planning accordingly. Yet according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature Communications — one that an outside … Continue reading Inland cities face water supply problems as lakes evaporate due to climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In 2019, Berkeley became the first city in the country to ban gas stoves and water heaters in all new construction in order to cut down greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Read the full story at Yahoo!

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 11, 2023

… Continue reading How climate change intensifies the water cycle, fueling extreme rainfall and flooding – the Northeast deluge was just the latest

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E2 Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Storm water claims may be an emerging small-scale form of litigation driven by climate change. In Pennsylvania, like many parts of the country, a changing climate has increased the frequency of heavy rains and the intensity of rainfall events.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

New data analyses indicate that previous models systematically underestimate how sensitively water availability reacts to certain changing climate parameters.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.” Sunoco , involved a suit against oil companies for their role in fostering climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

The Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Delaware River Basin Commission are hosting another in its series of Water Exchange Speakers May 11 on Climate Change Planning and Adaption from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

It’s also one of the countries that’s least prepared to adapt to climate change, which will be much worse by then. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative rankings show that Nigeria as the 17 th most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. ” Climate change will only make things worse.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

A woman reaches for a hose from a water tanker in Rajasthan, India. The United Nations climate panel issued a blunt and urgent warning to the world on Monday. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. Some of the biggest risks and opportunities identified in the report center on water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system. Whether you call it updating, modernizing, or reforming, changes to the water rights system have long been considered a political third rail —the electric kind you don’t touch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

During a California State Assembly informational hearing earlier this year, there seemed to be consensus that California’s 19 th century water rights system is not well suited to the social context and climate of the 21st century. Change is necessary and may be coming.  After all, water rights seem overwhelming and complex.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

What role is climate change playing? As climate change increases the frequency or intensity of extreme events such as wildfires, heat waves, and heavy downpours, there is an increase in the potential for different types of risks to coincide or for a climate-related event to trigger a cascade of non-climatic consequences.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Penn State Extension will host another in its Water Cooler Talk series December 29 on Pennsylvania Flood Risk With Climate Change from Noon to 1:00 p.m. They want to know how the flood zones are going to change in the future." They also say that as time and climate change progress, the 100-year flood maps change as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How will the nations that have ratified UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention respond to the threat climate change represents to iconic natural and historic sites across the globe? If the Committee agrees, then it will be the first time any World Heritage site has been added to the In Danger list because of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. But does the public similarly recognize climate impacts on their lives, particularly on their household water supplies?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations. What is a stable climate?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Entering the third month of extreme temperatures, people in Pakistan are confronting yet another calamity linked to an unforgiving climate: a deadly cholera outbreak.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A human rights-based approach to cultural heritage protection is an essential cornerstone for climate justice and just resilience, but it often seems completely missing from the climate policy equation. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 28, 2022

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod Can we laugh about something as dire as climate change? The creators of a new comedy venture think so. Research shows that comedy is a great way to break down defenses.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Water advocates view the attention to adaptation as an opportunity.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon. However, our increasingly threatened global water security demands that accounting for water use and risk rapidly acquire the same urgency with which we address carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With extreme winter weather breaking out across the United States this week, a question in many people’s minds is—how is climate change affecting winter storms? Can you start with how climate change is generally affecting winter weather in the US? And this also connects to climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The climate crisis is a public health crisis, and it finally seems global leaders have recognized that fact. With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. should not exceed five µg/m3.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. Soil doesn’t just blow away—it also washes away and pollutes our water Extreme precipitation and flooding carry large quantities of soil off bare farm fields. A new Dust Bowl?

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Hotter, drier mountains leach more metal into streams from abandoned mines and natural deposits. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2021

is staring climate change in the face. The worst news is that the situation is only going to get worse as climate change progresses. If we don’t cut emissions quickly and dramatically, climate change will accelerate, putting droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires into overdrive. The western U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Restoration projects in the Kissimmee River Basin north of Lake Okeechobee are part of larger efforts to reduce nutrient pollution and send clean water south to the Everglades. Morocco , which has one of the world’s lowest water resources per capita, boosts its water funding by billions of dollars.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Current rates of progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene would need to quadruple to meet UN targets. Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After a landmark 2022—a record $54 billion committed to climate spending and legislation that codified the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and 90 percent clean electricity by 2035—a significantly gloomier budget forecast gave rise to fears that California’s climate programs would take a hit.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2021

by Antonia Law (Keele University) The Earth’s surface is splotched with 117 million lakes. Some are scarcely more than ponds, while others are so big they can be seen from space. At 395 miles long, 49 miles wide and just over 1 mile deep, Lake Baikal in Siberia is one of the world’s largest and… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change is shifting so much about our world, from earlier blooms on Japan’s iconic cherry blossoms to rapid loss es of glaciers and ice sheets. Climate change is drying out our forests, priming them to burn. In turn, the dryness of forests affects how readily they burn. So…what is VPD?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

But the complexities of the interactions between the land and atmosphere, especially in a rapidly changing climate, are challenging to model, leading to uncertainty around the magnitude and persistence of this critical carbon sink. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.

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