Legal Planet
MARCH 10, 2022
C during an overshoot period this century, will result in irreversible impacts on certain ecosystems with low resilience, such as polar, mountain, and coastal ecosystems, impacted by icesheet, glacier melt, or by accelerating and higher committed sea level rise.” The report also says that: “Additional warming, e.g., above 1.5°
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. He is currently field chief editor of the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.
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Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 30, 2021
As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contrary to expectations (including my own!), First, who can stand as a plaintiff?
ESA
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
This is the first COP in which the Mexican government has including youth on their team. I met them at the Science Pavilion, where they were talking with Helene Hewitt, an oceanography and one of the authors of the recent IPCC working group 1 report. She is one of four youth members in the “party” from Mexico.
Environmental Science
JULY 22, 2018
But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Sponsored Content. What Climatology Is Not.
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