Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Blending scientific reportage with literary flair, Under a White Sky presents a series of case studies written partly as a travelogue, as Kolbert meets scientists and engineers reshaping the natural world. Offer relentless despair and readers may drift away; be too upbeat and you’re almost certainly downplaying the issues.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A third consecutive year of the La Niña weather pattern was a calamity for the Horn of Africa, where parts of Somalia are on the verge of famine for the second time this century. Low water on the Rhine and Mississippi rivers halted barge traffic and drove up shipping costs on two of the world’s most important commercial waterways.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

by Zachary Haslick History of Lake Erie pollution In the 1960s, Lake Erie suffered from extreme pollution due to industrial waste and sewage runoff, and parts of the lake were declared dead. Lake Erie algal blooms August 2017 Photo Credit: Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. The lake rebounded and was no longer considered dead.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. Who Should Pay to Fix California’s Sunken Canals?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

I have long been a supporter of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The LCFS is the leading example of a Clean Fuel Standard , an approach to transportation fuel policy that holds oil refiners accountable to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels.

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Breezometer

APRIL 6, 2022

How Do We Define ‘Pollen Season’? Importantly, climate factors play a huge role in dictating when plants will start and stop producing pollen, as well as how many of these allergenic grains they will make. Temperature plays a big part in pollen production schedules. But why does this happen?

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal – Letters were delivered today to the boards and executive of Canada’s 10 largest pension fund managers requesting information on how the funds are meeting their legal fiduciary obligations to beneficiaries in the face of a worsening global climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Pennsylvania Environmental Council President Davitt Woodwell To Retire [PaEN] -- Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre (..)

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

Greenhouse gas concentrations are measured in parts per million, parts per billion, and even parts per trillion. and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (. which are proposed to be a component of the SEC required disclosures but not the Maryland program)?”. and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Thus, an acre of solar panels producing zero-emissions electricity saves between 267,526 to 303,513 pounds, or 121 to 138 metric tons, of carbon dioxide per year. By Matthew Eisenson. On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and achieved the following results: -- Grew and donated nearly 10,000 lbs. Completed in December 2021, the county installed a 2.5-acre

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Washington Nature

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a story about how the Black in Marine Science Institute came to be & TNC’s small part in it. She describes a world beneath the surface, filled with ancestors’ whispers, “Take your freedom from the deep. We celebrate the BIMS Institute, a joyful place for meaningful discovery, innovation, and belonging.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

4 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 2 [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 62 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In September 2 PA Bulletin [PaEN] Programs/Information -- The Center Square: State Dept. Gifford Pinchot's Grey Towers Historic Site Hosting Festival Of Wood Sept.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

How do companies use offsets to get to carbon neutrality? Photo credit: Sentient Media. By Claire Hemlett An increasing number of food brands are turning to climate labels to boost sales. In the face of research that meat and milk are high in greenhouse gas emissions , companies are angling for new ways to reach eco-conscious consumers.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to meet May 2 on House Bill 962 (Vitali-D-Delaware), legislation that would restore DEP’s authority to review conventional oil and gas well plugging bonding amounts every two years. Background As part of the July 2022 budget settlement, the General Assembly passed and Gov.

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Environment Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

If honeybees were no longer a part of our world, it’s not just their honey we’d miss; other foods that we know and love, like almonds, could cease to exist. If honeybees were no longer a part of our world, it’s not just their honey we’d miss; other foods that we know and love, like almonds, could cease to exist.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

The projects highlighted this year show tremendous diversity in how they are making Pennsylvania a better place.” “The projects highlighted this year show tremendous diversity in how they are making Pennsylvania a better place.” “It Each of the projects awarded this year will leave a positive lasting legacy for Pennsylvania.”

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 14, 2021

These bags contain essential food and hygiene products that prove to be life-saving to people,” mentions Simona Pesce, communications specialist at Frontiers’ Lausanne office. The amount of people in need increased significantly all around the world in view of the pandemic and the drastic consequences it brought.

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

I’ve worked on a number of experiments in my life,” he told Physics World , “but Daya Bay has achieved so much that it is extremely rewarding. A little after 10.30?a.m., Only a small audience was present due to coronavirus restrictions, but 1.7 million people joined online to see the experiment come to an end.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Corporate Rap Sheet on N estlé - Corporate Rap Sheets, which detail corporate wrongdoing by some of the world's largest companies, are written by Philip Mattera, who heads the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 29, 2022

1 way to save the world is simply to start somewhere. 1 way to save the world is simply to start somewhere. He told his team to start exploring other options from the world of stormwater control — controlling stormwater as it falls through infiltration practices and keeping it out of the sewer system entirely,” she says.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. In the years after, the company felt that precautions against climate change were necessary.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 22, 2021

Customized Bins can store varied merchandise akin to; electronics, fashion equipment, clothes, make-up items, Jewelry Products, Bakery Merchandise, foody objects, beverages, books, garments, or any other products that want personalised packaging to be saved. This is called the entourage impact”.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Here are 120 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept. 26 to Sept.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In Durban, South Africa, Shell is a part-owner of the South Africa Petroleum Refinery, where rates of leukemia are 24 times higher than the national average and children suffer 4 times the respiratory problems. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

100,000 Grant To Treat Acid Mine Drainage In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center, Partners Host 7-Part, Online Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Tools Workshops Starting Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over the next several decades, ALCOSAN will be investing $2 billion to reduce sewer overflows during rainstorms. By Tom Batroney, PE This guest essay was originally published on Public Source August 3, 2021 -- After record-setting rainfall and flash floods in recent years, the need for action across the Pittsburgh region is clear.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 10, 2023

Save Our Access v. Over the intervening decades, the City’s voters have amended the Coastal Zone height-limit ordinance several times, but typically to allow specific projects, such as Sea World enhancements or the International Gateway of the America’s project. City of San Diego (2023) Cal.App.5th.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Scope 2 emissions come from energy purchased by the company for such functions as operating machinery or heating offices. The devil is in the details, as the saying goes, and the climate-related details bedeviling many oil and gas company boardrooms this spring sound like a Star Trek galaxy. It’s a picture investors are currently missing.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This piece is not to argue about global warming or the eventual energy transition; it’s to decry how and when and for what motivations the true believers address the questions. Climate czar John Kerry and Bill Gates each arrived on on his private jet; VP Harris arrived aboard Air Force 2; other world leaders arrived in theirs.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. Trips to academic conferences in particular are a huge part of the problem. Simon Portegies Zwart , an astrophysicist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, is ecologically conscious.

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