Water Research & Technology

JULY 9, 2025

Furthermore, global challenges of climate change and population growth pose short- and long-term threats to safe and reliable WASH. Climate resilience, innovation, intersectional sensitivity, and systems strengthening are currently highlighted as necessary for sustainability and equitability in the WASH sector.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 5, 2024

All projects will be co-created and sustained by community members, local organizations and Academy scientists with a collective aim to address systemic racism and climate change issues across the city. The ethos is simple: help improve the quality of life for the people of Philadelphia.

Natural Sciences

Nature

JULY 21, 2025

New York City, New York (US) Springer Nature Ltd Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change), Research Cross-Jo Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, (Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change), Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team, Nature Portfolio   Lo. Email address Yes!

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

According to the Department of Environmental Protection, the city and the surrounding regions are currently in a ‘drought watch.’ If you haven’t noticed, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been a bit dry. While the seemingly unending days of blue skies can be picturesque, there are unseen challenges to a long dry season.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 1, 2025

Scientists will be able to paint an accurate picture of many different species’ population changes or when and where certain invasive species have entered into the ecosystem.

Ocean

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

And in the past 60 years or so people have gone to the Greenland ice sheet to basically pull these long tubes of ice out of the ice sheet itself and use the ice as a record of climate change because ice is laid down yearly and it’s basically like a tree ring. Feltman: Mm-hmm. DelViscio: But in an ice sheet.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

According to Trump’s EPA, the Endangerment Finding creatively added multiple leaps, arguing that the combined six gases contribute some mysterious amount above zero to climate change and that climate change creates some mysterious amount of endangerment above zero to public health.

Clean Air Act

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. Schaefer believes reducing the error will make ice-sheet models better tools for adapting to climate change.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

On the contrary, Trump has marginalized economic analysis and wants to bulldoze environmental science. Thus, we are likely to get policies that are bad for the environment without being cost-justified, while ignoring policies whose environmental benefits outweigh economic costs. This is somewhat like asking RFK, Jr.

Environmental Science

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Climate change is no fad or Johnny-come-lately in science. Over time, it has become more and more certain that humans are causing climate change and that continuing down that road poses great risks. First paper on risk of sea level rise due to climate change. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Tricia Paff: Look at the announcement that EPA is reconsidering I think that was the word they used but really its going to eliminate the 2009 endangerment finding that gives us the authority to mitigate the risk of climate change in vehicles. So, that doesn’t really serve the American people very well.

Climate Change

Physics World

JUNE 11, 2025

Work is being stalled, erased or doomed, especially in the medical and environmental sciences. One is through new policies at funding agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Has ending scientific study of climate change got anything to do with any of this?

2016

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

Harvard Environmental Justice Tracker keeps track of actions that affect community exposure to environmental pollution and the ability of impacted communities to participate in decisions. Sabin Center Climate Backtracker : This tracks actions by the Trump Administration to reduce or eliminate climate change actions.

2017

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2025

On June 10, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science released its 19th annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card , the most comprehensive annual assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. Climate change is accelerating, and with it comes more flooding, pollution, and ecological stress.

2024

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Michelle Lujan Grisham last Thursday signed into law Senate Bill 48, the Community Benefit Fund, which contains $210 million for communities to use for a series of projects to mitigate climate change impacts.

Law

Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

A Trump executive order directed EPA to consider reopening its finding that greenhouse gases cause harmful climate change despite hundreds if not thousands of scientific papers supporting the finding. Some agencies have scrubbed all mentions of climate change from their websites. Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,

Climate Change

Nature

JULY 7, 2025

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Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

Recycling

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

In a separate development, the NIH has also begun terminating grants for active projects studying environmental justice, climate change, and other topics, according to reporting by Max Kozlov and Smriti Mallapaty for the journal Nature. A popular sign at the Westwood protest.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

Regulatory Rollbacks EPA announced plans to roll back thirty-one environmental actions. These included Biden climate-change regulations, but also protections against air pollution that are important to public health and water pollution limits for coal plants. The list also included a repeal of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Conor Lamb (D), Energy Future PA -- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Pittsburgh Airports Microgrid Prevents Heathrow-Like Outages -- City & State PA Hosts April 22 Energy Summit - The Future Of Energy In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Youth For Climate Action Summit Set For March 29 [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: Prototype Pittsburghs New Job Training (..)

Conservation

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On the positive side, the National Academy of Sciences says solar geoengineering “ could reduce surface temperatures and potentially ameliorate some risks posed by climate change (e.g., loss of stratospheric ozone); important aspects of regional climate (e.g.,

2024

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2025

Even worse, information about extreme weather would also shed light on climate change, a taboo subject. Better information about extreme weather could support more robust programs to deal with those threats rather than supporting massive budget cuts. More robust government programs arent part of the MAGA agenda.

Government

Legal Planet

MAY 28, 2025

Theodore Boutrous , a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who represents Chevron , a role in which “he draws on his First Amendment background to argue that oil companies shouldnt face legal consequences for deceiving the public about whether climate change is real,” as one report put it.

Politics

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in Americas Golden Age, or so said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who used to be considered a fairly rational person. And scientists haven’t ignored the arguments made by climate deniers — they’ve tested and rejected each of them. .”

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

. - Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- PUC To Hold Hearings Starting April 7 On Proposed UGI Gas Rate Increase Of Up To 10.8% -- PUCs Be Utility Wise Conference Attracts About 150 Community Providers, Empowers Frontline Advocates -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA, Climate Action Campaign Host March 24 Webinar On Impacts Of Climate (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

TODAY 7:00: Dickinson College Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change. Sayre High School Students Together at Cobbs Creek To Learn Environmental Science, Engineering In Philadelphia -- Erie Times: Venango Twp. Digital Foundry in Westmoreland County.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

The institutional developments are new, but university engagement with the climate issue goes back decades. University research has led in developing clean technologies, mapping the impacts of climate change, and identifying policy tools to reduce emissions. Institutional changes don’t accomplish anything by themselves.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

So, no, there’s no conspiracy of scientists to cook up thousands of scientific papers about climate change. After all, universities are looking to hire people who will feel compelled to share their views with students and publish their ideas for the whole world to see. Keeping quiet about something is not a prized professional trait.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One day, she asked a young girl what she knew about climate change. The child’s caretaker jumped in to say, “Oh no — we don’t talk about climate change.”. How can we talk about climate change in an accessible way for children? Climate change is something that’s scary for parents and scary for me as well.

Environmental Science

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

She is an MIT grad who went to Berkeley for graduate school, where earned a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a PhD from ERG. ERG — more formally the Energy and Resources Group — is Berkeley’s unique, interdisciplinary program spanning economics and social science, environmental science, and engineering.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But he also voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change. These election fraud and anti-vaccine conspiracies converge with some far-out ideas about climate science. Respect for science matters and this staffing choice shows definitively which side RFK Jr.

Climate Scientist

Physics World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The other three – Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates and Brave Green World by Chris Forman and Claire Asher – look at the full spectrum of solutions and mitigation strategies that have been suggested. Small Gases, Big Effect: This is Climate Change by David Nelles and Christian Serrer.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2022

” For the next several years, Greg and Nadine Mort cultivated relationships with leaders in environmental science and activism, including Circle of Blue Co-Founder J. “After meeting Carl,” Nadine said, “we were so impressed with him and the mission of Circle of Blue — that water is climate and climate is water.”

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