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How teamwork β€” in nature and the lab β€” can teach us about climate change

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from Michigan State University. million from NSF, MSU and UC Merced will help improve climate models and conservation efforts by studying symbiosis in insects, sea anemones and squid.

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Understanding the Arguments Made by Climate Change Adaptation Pessimists: Part One

Environmental and Urban Economics

My Thoughts About the Work by Two Talented New York Times Journalists The New York Times continues to be the paper of record. I must acknowledge upfront that I have not interviewed either of them about their climate change adaptation pessimism. But perhaps the more profound questions are about distribution: Who gets those seeds?

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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

has raised concerns about legal liability arising from international climate agreements going back to at least 1992, when the Rio Declaration included a statement that β€œin view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated responsibilities.” and other major greenhouse gas emitters?

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The US Supreme Court’s earliest pollution cases

Environment, Law, and History

Chicago Drainage Canal being built (from The New Student's Reference Work (1914)) I'm not sure this was really the US Supreme Court's first pollution case - how about the Slaughterhouse Cases ? The Court had long heard other law suits between states, but this was apparently the first one to involve pollution. Tennessee Copper Co. ,

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Sustainability at Retail

But first, a little about the consumer. Finally, the white paper includes both the POPAI France and POPAI UK & Ireland Eco-Standard initiatives and shows how companies have implemented these standards in their projects. Download today!

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Ambassador Shannon Featured in O Globo and AS/COA Q&A

Arnold Porter

” In the articles, Ambassador Shannon answered questions about the relationship between the United States and Brazil and discussed the impact of the Brazilian election on Europe and China. Ambassador,” and the AS/COA Q&A article, “LatAm in Focus: Amb. Thomas Shannon on How Lula's Win Resets Brazil's Foreign Policy.”

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5 articles you need to check out on the future of materials research

Frontiers

For all the materials considered by the authors, there are serious concerns about reaching the right level of consistency and achieving production methods which are not environmentally costly, but there is still promise for future research – and potentially, in the future, greener spaceflight.