Fri.Sep 03, 2021

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After More Than A Decade Of Warnings Significant Funding Was Needed, Floods Are Again Devastating Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

In 2011, it was Tropical Storm Lee , in 2017, it was Tropical Depression Harvey , in 2018 it was micro-storms causing flooding in communities all over the state and again just this week.

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Astronomers discover ideal conditions for stargazing on the Tibetan Plateau

Physics World

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level. Michael Ashley.

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: An Overview of the Science

Legal Planet

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Amid Extreme Heat and Drought, Line 3 Pipeline Construction Puts Water At Risk

Circle of Blue

The suit builds off of a 2018 law, passed by the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, that gave inherent legal rights to wild rice. The tribes only learned that the permit was approved when a member followed up with the agency the following week. Bibeau has filed a lawsuit against the DNR to appeal the groundwater appropriations permit.