Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The urgency of implementing change now For decades, scientists have been warning about the upcoming dangers of climate change; however, all we have to do today is look around to see the current impacts. Over the next five years, the temperatures will continue to rise , and we will violate the original goals set in the Paris Climate Accords.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Though long hostile toward climate science, News Corp Australia is planning an editorial campaign calling for a zero-carbon economy, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The campaign will be supported by Sky News and will run in metropolitan tabloids. Read more on E360 ?.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. First, have you wondered why all the news your Google search finds seems to spell climate D-O-O-M? How reliable are climate-change forecasts? Bjorn Lomborg shows us that there’s plenty of good news about the environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate change is putting more people and property in harm’s way—and also exposing hard limits to the protection that property insurance can offer. More people need insurance, but increasingly the climate crisis is making many places too risky to insure at reasonable rates. I will unpack more as the season progresses.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. If that weren’t enough, new research on sea sponges made for a second wave of stories that declared the “The World Blew Past 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Summer 2022 newsletter from the PA Natural Heritage Program is now available featuring articles on-- -- New Interest In Old Forests -- Mapping Climate Refugia In Pennsylvania -- Road To Recovery For Evening Grosbeak -- Large Yellow Lady’s Slipper -- Rare Plant Updates -- Heller Cave Springtail Surveys -- New Jersey Rockfall Surveys -- Managing (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Image by Danielle Anz It’s been three months now since 16 young plaintiffs suing the state of Montana for climate harms piled into a Helena courtroom so small that the attorneys worried whether everyone would fit. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

After the MIT Technology Review broke the news about that weather balloon stunt , the Guardian, the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Time and other outlets followed with stories. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. Anyone can float a balloon.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Climate change is expected to intensify harmful algal blooms, as increased rainfall in the Midwest washes more nutrients into the Great Lakes. In the News.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Living near a nuclear plant has caused long-term stress in Prairie Island Indian Community, reports MPR News. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Los Angeles Times headline for reader letters on the floods said, “California rains are a wake-up call for climate upheaval to come.”

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Notably, a lovely obituary in the NY Tim es by Henry Fountain, a segment on the BBC’s Inside Science from Roland Pease, a piece on Bloomberg News by Eric Roston and, of course, an appreciation from his colleagues at World Weather Attribution (including Friederike Otto, the co-recipient of the TIME 100 award to Geert earlier this year).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

But what of the climate crisis? Today, members of the climate movement are using these tactics to drive climate progress. Almost universally, the climate movement’s bolder activism is being met with society’s resistance and reprimand but members are persisting out of a sense of urgency and desperation. In the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The 27 th Conference of the Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate conference, is in its final days. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

First the good news: The “abnormally” wet winter has improved the extensive drought conditions across the country and helped to replenish many of the reservoirs in California, the Great Basin and the Colorado River Basin. Human-driven climate change is fueling more extreme weather and climate change-related disasters.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia, and funders. Welcome from Franck Vazquez, director of partnerships at Frontiers Frontiers is committed to making trusted science openly available to all. Catch up on other news from Frontiers Dr Asli Demirgüç-Kunt joins Frontiers for Young Minds.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

by Liad Hollender, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com The UN Climate Panel’s latest best estimate is that global warming will end once we reach net zero CO 2 emissions – but a study in Frontiers in Science warns significant warming could still occur. At this point, they remain political.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2023

Climate change news is often quite depressing, with frequent stories on the science and ever-worsening impacts. Climate Break features interviews with compelling scientists, innovators, organizers, and leaders discussing breakthroughs, new approaches, and examples of progress on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. Climate change is a global mismanagement, while pollution is a local mismanagement. For thousands of years Ladakh’s climate was reliably cold, adjacent to the Himalayan mountains and thousands of glaciers. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The science and data tell us that if we are to secure a livable planet for the future, we are working on an unforgiving timeline. But science also tells us that we have most of the technologies and solutions that we need. Given the work we do every day at UCS, I didn’t need to learn more about the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. In 2023, the U.S. In the U.S.’s

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Frontiers

APRIL 5, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. Writing in Frontiers in Computer Science , a team from Japan has investigated the characteristics of persuasiveness for human and virtual influencers. Selling the articles is not allowed.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Women working in agricultural sectors in low- and middle-income countries are disproportionally at risk from climate change induced hazards, such as droughts, floods, or shortened crop-growing seasons. Multiple drivers of risk contributed to these rankings.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2023

A new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assessed changes in the reproductive output of 104 bird species between 1970 and 2019.

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Methane production in the livestock sector greatly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Manure stored in the cool-temperate European climate is estimated to be responsible for approximately 12% of total methane emissions from the dairy system.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers together in-person and virtually, united in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 2, 2021

Realtime Climate monitors local weather and events across the U.S. These alerts provide links to science-based analyses and visualizations—including locality-specific, high-quality graphics—that can help explain events in the context of climate change. and generates alerts when certain conditions are met or expected.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Open access publisher Frontiers and the Frontiers Research Foundation joined this year’s Falling Walls Science Summit held on 7-9 November in Berlin, Germany. We need to be accountable; we need to align with science, we need to put the money on the table, and we have to do it in an equitable way. Now we need to deliver.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Penn State will host the 2024 Climate Solutions Symposium on May 14 and 15 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. Organized by the Penn State Climate Consortium , this year’s two-day event will provide an immersive exploration of climate research and solutions.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A new IPCC report also has climate experts calling out for the world to take notice. To help you stay informed, we’ve put together some of our favorite voices in the weather and climate space, to help you know where to turn to for expert insights, commentary, and advice. Climate & Weather Influencers to Follow.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Because their growth, reproductive success and survival is tightly coupled to environmental temperatures, climate change represents a significant threat to them. Understanding the future effects of climate change on biodiversity is a global priority, according to research team leader Tyler Wagner , a scientist with the U.S.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Dan has joined the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow, as part of our Cities Climate Law Initiative. Prior to that role Dan was a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center focused on international climate change litigation, climate risks and opportunities in the reinsurance industry, and the law and science of climate change attribution.

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