Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some of the impacts of climate change are playing out faster and with a greater magnitude than we predicted.”. While we still have those things, the facts show that climate change has transformed the months of May through October into what we are calling the Danger Season. Those impacts do not affect everyone equally.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – More than 5,000 people and a coalition of conservation groups are calling on the federal government to finally take action after waiting over six years to protect monarch butterflies. Wireless radiation for telecommunications impairs monarch navigation ability.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As 70% of the country’s population lives in rural areas, expanding energy production is a key priority for the government. Climate impacts In Tajikistan, the impacts of climate change are easy to see and, ironically, would impact the production of the low-carbon energy source and its main energy source; hydropower.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) On September 20, 2023, EPA announced the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium. We’re not going to allow the government to carry out armed robbery of a resource that belongs to all,” said Catalina Pérez, an opposing lawmaker, after the sales were announced.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is early September, and we are late into what we at UCS call Danger Season , or the period between May and October when climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity, and/or duration of extreme weather events such as heat waves and wildfires. F, breaking the previous record of 114°F from 1925.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities. Earlier this month, the parties to the London Convention and Protocol met in London to discuss, among other things, whether and how to apply those instruments to certain ocean CDR and solar radiation management activities.

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Physics World

MAY 21, 2022

eV, use back surface reflectors to divert unusable sub-bandgap radiation back to the source, and are optimized for heat sources at temperatures of 1900–2400°C. He notes that research into generating energy via an alternative method involving streams of supercritical CO 2 has received around $100m in US government funding.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In order to respond effectively to climate change, it’s important to understand its fundamental causes and effects. Eunice Lo is particularly interested in how climate change will affect extreme weather events, with a focus on heatwaves and their impact on human health. Eunice Lo , researcher, University of Bristol, UK.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. The first, executed under the government of former president Evo Morales, brought a capacity of 50 MW.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

The US government therefore has a vested interest in keeping the COFA agreements alive and maintaining good relationships with these countries. And in exchange, the US gets exclusive military rights to the strategically valuable land and waters of each country in the Western Pacific– a maritime area larger than the United States.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

When the history of the global shift toward a clean energy economy and a sustainable future gets written decades from now, it may well be that the COP26 Climate Change Conference will be seen as a watershed moment.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Roofs covered with reflective paints, for example, reflect more of the solar radiation hitting them and capture less heat as a result. Since the IRA was enacted, various government and non-government bodies have made available an ever growing array of resources to help its beneficiaries maximize the opportunities presented by the Act.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Dear Galactic Governance Collaborative, Those of us who colonized Planet X now find ourselves in dangerous straits. Even more surprisingly, that changes the atmosphere’s radiation profile. We were shocked to discover that we had destabilized the climate on Planet X. A long time ago, in another galaxy far far away.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But in recent years, many of us have asked ourselves the question: what role does the food I eat play in climate change? Scientists have become more aware of the impacts of agriculture on Earth’s changing climate. Throughout the world, food and cooking are intertwined with our culture, traditions, and sense of belonging.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. The federal government will eventually assume responsibility for the more than 50 defunct mills that generated this waste. It didn’t happen. Groundwater moves.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Kushlan Award Recipient -- DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Environmental Groups Up Their Election Spending In PA Citing ‘Existential Crises’ Related To Climate Change -- Inside Climate News: New, Massive Plastics Plant In SW PA Barely Registers Among Voters -- EQB Meets Nov.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Indeed, it is understandable why people might fear radiation given that you can’t see it – yet the same can be said of the air that we breathe. As physicists we are well equipped to drive the conversation on climate change from the problem to solutions – one that nuclear needs to be a part of. Young support.

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Science & Climate

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro regions, University of California, Davis, researchers have found in a new analysis. . Becoming Arizona: Heat and Climate Change Series.

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Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

“The problem of the commercial utilization, for the production of power, of the energy of solar radiation, the wind and other intermittent natural sources is a double one,” he wrote. As we attempt to lessen the impact of climate change, Fessenden’s comments remain just as pertinent today – if not more so.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. We know how to provide safe water and sanitation to the billions who still lack it,” he writes. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2023

Cumberland County Makes Switch To Solar Energy -- PA Solar Center Seeking Lodestar Award Nominations For Chester County [PaEN] -- Crop Exhibits, Solar Energy, Hay Contest Featured At Penn State Ag Progress Days Aug. 27 Ramble, A Day Of Outdoor Adventures And Educational Programs in Monroe County -- Registration Open!

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Million In Environmental Improvement Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees NFWF, EPA Announce $2.5 Million In Environmental Improvement Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees NFWF, EPA Announce $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2021

House Passes Broad Bipartisan Measure To Help States Fund Energy Cybersecurity Efforts -- Utility Dive: Report: Billions More Needed To Address Climate Infrastructure Needs Of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of storm events, causing fields to become inundated repeatedly. Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Here are 166 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She had previously worked in EPA’s air and radiation office where she “played a key role in the administration’s efforts to address . His goal is to “combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government.”. [13]. Pruitt, on the other hand, refuses to acknowledge that human activities are impacting climate change. [15].

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

International United Nations report cautions against solar radiation management and calls for international regulations for the use of this technology. What form should the final product(s) take to be most accessible and useful to you, your community, and the government?” States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

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Breezometer

JULY 6, 2021

Governments, agencies, and scientific bodies tend to use a range of environmental monitoring methods to set emission standards and inform on pollution levels, conservation efforts, sustainable water management, and even measure economic impacts. What are the Common Sources of Environmental Data? c) Improved Consumer App Experiences.

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