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A science-based move to climate change adaptation

Real Climate

However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings. However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate.

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Community Science to the Rescue

Academy of Natural Sciences

On a beautiful sunny day in early summer, a group of community scientists led by Ron Smith — a Drexel University BEES instructor and high school environmental science teacher — was making the most of the beachy breeze on the Delaware Bay. Community scientists line the rocky sea wall, searching for trapped horseshoe crabs.

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Federal Water Tap, February 28: EPA Rejects Industry Objections to Chlorpyrifos Rules

Circle of Blue

Fox also noted the importance of technical assistance to disadvantaged communities so that they can access the funds. The Rundown. The EPA rejects industry objections to its restrictions on the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The Interior Department allocates $1.7 billion this year for tribal water rights settlements. By the Numbers. By the Numbers.

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Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change

HumanNature

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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Stroud Water Research Center Update: Scaling Up Outreach To Farmers, Landowners To Improve Water Quality

PA Environment Daily

Together, they will help the Stroud Center scale up community outreach in support of cleaner, healthier waterways. She inherited her work ethic from her parents, who built small businesses and were active members of their community. and much more! This foundation led her to become the first in her family to graduate college.

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FRESH, July 26, 2022: Citizens Divided Over Wind Energy in Lake Erie

Circle of Blue

Alicia Smith, director of Junction Coalition, a community action group in Toledo, Ohio. . Alicia Smith, director of Junction Coalition, a community action group in Toledo, Ohio. Community advocates are dueling with the state over whether to implement mandatory limits on nutrient pollution from large-scale agriculture operations.

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Comparing the Risks of Climate Change and Geoengineering

Legal Planet

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.