PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Climate change research is critical, but complex science can be hard to communicate, especially to children, which creates a gap that limits public understanding and action, said Siobhan Fathel , assistant professor of earth & environmental sciences.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In general, the new Trump administration presents grave threats to priorities on climate, energy, and justice.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 9, 2025

Graphic: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Teaching the climate change unit last week in my International Environmental Law and Policy class, I found myself so moved that I started crying at the board. My poor students thought I was in distress.I

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

According to the Department of Environmental Protection, the city and the surrounding regions are currently in a ‘drought watch.’ If you haven’t noticed, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been a bit dry. While the seemingly unending days of blue skies can be picturesque, there are unseen challenges to a long dry season.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

(Klamath River Dam removal project [credit: Los Angeles Times]) Most of the environmental law and policy matters discussed on Legal Planet–especially over the past few months–have dealt with natural resource crises, environmental rollbacks, hostile political actors and actions in Washington, D.C.,

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Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 5, 2024

How do we confront environmental challenges in the city of Philadelphia equitably and sustainably? With a recent grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Academy partnered with West Philadelphia’s Overbrook Environmental Education Center to help create a way: the Science Shop.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The Academy enters the world of fashion, in collaboration with the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) of Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, with a new special exhibition: The Ecology of Fashion.

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Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology is pleased to announce that Dr Ming Xie has joined the journal as an Associate Editor. Ming is a Lecturer of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bath, and an Industrial Fellow by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 9, 2025

While its daunting to contemplate the many issues that we need to tackle to achieve greater social equity and environmental sustainability especially in our everyday lives small, individual actions can add up to make a difference. It is the new year and time for a lifestyle change.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 12, 2025

The role of invasive alien species as bioindicators for environmental pollution. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 45, 100620. Pastorino, P., Esposito, G., Prearo, M., & Sonne, C.

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The Applied Ecologist

JULY 16, 2025

About the author I was a master’s student in environmental science with a specialisation in ecological sciences at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development …

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Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

More by Ben Santer Susan Solomon is a professor in Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thompson is a professor in the department of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University and in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 1, 2025

Tanya Dapkey, the Macroinvertebrates Section Lead of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research, stands on the edges of the Delaware River. Trees rustle in the breeze, the water laps on mossy rocks.

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Nature

JULY 21, 2025

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 21, 2025

Environmental Science & Technology, 59(15), 77227735. link] Abstract The plastisphere is a potential contributor to global antimicrobial resistance (AMR), posing potential threats to public and environmental health. Guo, J., & Gao, S.-H.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Environmental Science & Technology vol. Environmental Science & Technology vol. Long-Term Trends in Motor Vehicle Emissions in U.S. Urban Areas. 47 1002210031 (2013). [7] 7] Coggon, M. 52 56105618 (2018). [8] 8] McDonald, B.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. Undaunted by the overwhelming scientific evidence in favor of that finding, the Trump EPA plans to reconsider it.

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ESA

APRIL 15, 2025

Combining research findings with best practices in applied ecological restoration is exactly the kind of solutions science we love to advance. Our chapter meeting also honors the most standout student presentations.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The GOPs move against the National Science Foundation is part of a broader Republican rejection of federally funded climate and environmental science that does not align with the partys political and cultural aims.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

By Gianna Rupert '26 This article originally appeared on the Susquehanna University website.

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Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018.

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Nanotech

JULY 8, 2025

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and revised draft plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) evaluating the potential environmental impacts and plant pest risk that may result from the approval of a petition for nonregulated (..)

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2025

Journal of Environmental Sciences. Zheng, C., & Gao, X. The path to carbon neutral shipping: A comparative analysis of low carbon technologies.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2025

Environmental Science & Technology, 59(15), 76887698. link] Abstract The increasing amount of sewage sludge generated during wastewater treatment poses both growing management challenge and environmental issues. Schinkel, L., Eberhard, Y., Berg, M., & Hollender, J.

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Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Caleb Walcott-George, soon to be an assistant professor in the department of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Kentucky, was a graduate student during the first two field seasons of the project. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

On the contrary, Trump has marginalized economic analysis and wants to bulldoze environmental science. Thus, we are likely to get policies that are bad for the environment without being cost-justified, while ignoring policies whose environmental benefits outweigh economic costs.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to remove 35-year-old controls on mercury and other toxic emissions, and has ordered coal-fired plants to cancel plans to shut down. Budgets for environmental science are being slashed ; staffing levels of key agencies are being dramatically reduced.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2025

In just a few months, federal support of the science that ensures America’s long-term health and prosperity, as well as the world’s, has rapidly and overwhelmingly been withdrawn. Environmental science has been hit especially hard. Scientific research cannot operate within such constraints, and neither can the Stroud Center.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Climate change is no fad or Johnny-come-lately in science. In his efforts to expunge climate science, Trump is trying to wipe out the results of many decades of scientific research. Rather, our knowledge has grown over 168 years, since an American scientist first discovered the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

the Environmental Protection Agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environment by developing and enforcing regulations this week made what he proudly called the largest deregulatory announcement in history in the form of nearly three dozen policy reversals and reconsiderations. The new head of the U.S.

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Physics World

JUNE 11, 2025

Work is being stalled, erased or doomed, especially in the medical and environmental sciences. One is through new policies at funding agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Trump uncertainty principle, or TUP for short, is implemented in several ways.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

The first month of the Trump Administration has resulted in a dizzying flurry of actions and reactions. Many of us are wondering how to track the status of these actions, including the legal challenges to these actions. Luckily, a number of institutions are keeping track of the range of policy and legal actions that are happening.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 30, 2025

Environmental Science & Technology, 59(15), 76677677. link] Abstract Coastal wetlands function as critical retention zones for environmental microplastics, potentially … Continue reading Weathering Process and Characteristics of Microplastics in Coastal Wetlands: A 24-Month In Situ Study Fang, Y., & Li, B.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

Environmental Science & Technology. Liyanapatirana, C., Allen, L., & Kondash, A. Hold My Beer: The Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in Popular Beverages. link] [open access] See also RTI’s news release about the research.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

Last year, the annual report card released by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science showed notable progress, with the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay receiving its best grade in more than two decades.

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ESA

JUNE 24, 2025

DEB and NSF: Mission-Focused Even amid capacity constraints and evolving funding landscapes, DEB and NSF remain committed to their core mission: advancing fundamental research, supporting the scientific community, and serving the public through groundbreaking environmental science and discovery.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2025

On June 10, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science released its 19th annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card , the most comprehensive annual assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. The overall Chesapeake Bay earned a grade of C (50%).

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