Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Current rates of progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene would need to quadruple to meet UN targets. A new report found that global progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene goals is falling short. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The Mar del Plata conference aimed for wiser management of an essential resource in order to improve environmental health and “promote human dignity and happiness.” Environmental health and human dignity are again on the agenda. Forty-six years later, the challenges remain. Will the water conference change the course?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In an era of increasingly catastrophic wildfire impacts, with wildland fires that raze human communities, causing destruction, loss, and trauma, a broader-based evaluation of impacts is essential. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Nobody in all his long career ever called him progressive. With little difficulty we can envision these leading to more human-oriented problems — hunger, disease, population displacement, and conflict — problems that could grow unmanageable from governance and international security perspectives.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

More than 30 years have passed since the enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which requires federal agencies and specific museums to repatriate certain Native American human remains and other cultural items.

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Scientific American

JUNE 24, 2021

If they’re really aliens—and they’re benevolent—studying them could potentially transform the prospects for human knowledge and progress. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

That sounds like they’re putting a cash value on a human life. So you can see that what’s really being valued is risk, not the inherent worth of a human life. Q: Why are progressives unhappy with cost-benefit analysis? Q: So who favors cost-benefit analysis?

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Earthava

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As humans continued to make progress in scientific innovations, the environment bore the brunt of such strides. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, Continental Europe, as well as the United States in 1760, the most negative impact has been on the environment.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, despite their importance, progress toward achieving an SDG-aligned building sector is "off track." According to Obonyo, buildings play a crucial role in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Click Here to register. For more information about the spring 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 14, 2022

American innovators and researchers are making progress exploring human-made geothermal reservoirs, which, along with technologies to capture … Continue reading EERE Success Story—FORGE-ing Ahead with U.S. homes around the clock. Most of that energy has been largely inaccessible, but that’s about to change. Geothermal.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 12, 2024

Read the full story from the Center for Progressive Reform. This post is the sixth in a series about human rights and environmental, climate, and energy justice. The series builds on a forthcoming article, Environmental Justice as Environmental Human Rights, by Member Scholar John H. Knox and co-author Nicole Tronolone.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

We’re not making any progress if we try to combine all of that and make a prediction for the whole world. That’s the only way we can make progress.”. The UNESCO-backed study, which was published June 8 in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, is a sign of progress. Every species behaves differently.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2024

Some 20–35% of human-generated greenhouse gases come from food, agriculture, and land use. And those emissions are growing — even in countries that are making progress … Continue reading Food matters: Why climate change may hinge on what we eat and how we grow it But that’s not the whole story.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By nature, human beings are an adaptable, generalist species. And of course, there’s another complication about human beings, which is that we are very imperfect cooperators. But we’ve created a situation where we’ve adjusted everything to live in a very specific climate.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Health Effects Institute will holds its Annual Conference in Philadelphia on April 28-30 to hear from air pollution experts from around the world The Conference will feature these scientific sessions-- -- Optimizing research to support policy development -- Fueling the energy transition – challenges, opportunities, and implications for human health (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

At the heart of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment, lie the principles of engaging with partners and stakeholders at all levels to foster collaboration, innovation, and progress,” said EPA Deputy Regional Administrator Cathy Libertz.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). Both the science and law around climate change have progressed. State of the Netherlands , Neubauer, et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 1, 2022

The Hershey Company today shared its 2021 ESG Report, highlighting the company's goals and progress across its priority ESG areas including cocoa sustainability, environmental sustainability, responsible sourcing, and human rights. The post How The Hershey Company Reduced Emissions 48% appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In his latest book, Rifkin argues that “the Age of Progress has given way to the Age of Resilience.”. For centuries human civilisation has been driven by the idea of progress, reinforced through philosophy and particular interpretations of science. But there are fundamental flaws to the progress paradigm right from the start.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

You can find them, not only among people who call themselves liberals or progressives, but also among people who consider themselves conservative and/or evangelical. The climate has already been changed by human hands, and I am arguing that we are long past the mandate to care, maintain, preserve, or appreciate.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2021

The worst news is that the situation is only going to get worse as climate change progresses. The modern West is a human construct, dependent on a massive rearrangement of water availability across large areas. This isn’t end-of-the-world doom saying; it’s just the fact about the future of a big chunk of the United States.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA clearly delineates the need to focus on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies as well as sustainable nutrition science , an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of food production, environment and climate, and human health. More is better” is an unsustainable paradigm Historically (and still!),

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological. Attending to our human psyches, senses, and spirits is, in my view, a crucial dimension of climate action and resilience. The good news is that our capacity to face hard realities is wired into us as humans.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 20, 2023

A Google survey of over 2,300 people conducted last year by Environmental Progress, found that 53% of people surveyed in the U.S. agree with the false statement , “Climate change is making hurricanes more frequent,” while 46% agree with the false statement, “Climate change threatens human extinction.”

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The European Commission made several moves to protect ecosystems and human health from chemical and biological contaminants. There it will review progress and failures in the movement for universal access to safe water and sanitation. One is to tighten existing rules for 16 pollutants. Another is to regulate 25 new contaminants.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are thrilled to share stories from our climate work that highlight progress and learnings from 2023. The consequences of climate change are far-reaching—rising sea levels, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, shifts in ecosystems and biodiversity, disruptions in agricultural productivity and jeopardized human health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Earlier this month, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) published the findings of a seven-year investigation documenting the connection between the deliberate actions of the world’s largest carbon emitters and climate-related human rights abuses in the Philippines. Movement in US Courts.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services, which is in charge of the program, told Circle of Blue it has disbursed $855 million to states. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, for instance, notes $252 million in residential water debt in the state. Today, households are still waiting. Slow Roll Out.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

3) ExxonMobil predicted the possibility of linking rising temperatures to fossil fuels ExxonMobil researchers accurately predicted when it would become possible to attribute changes in climate to human activity. Attribution science has only gotten stronger in recent years. In fact, climate models produce robust science.

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Physics World

MAY 27, 2022

Crosswords are a puzzle that humans particularly excel at, so much so that we can outperform machines — or so we thought. But machines are now making a comeback and in 2021 the Berkeley Crossword Solver – built by a team at the University of California, Berkeley – managed, for the first time, to outscore every human player.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Years later, it has still made no progress – and Canadian ports continue to ship coal. The process of mining, transporting, and burning coal wreaks havoc on the environment, the climate and human health. This Private Member’s Bill is only necessary because the federal government has failed to keep its own promise.

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Frontiers

MAY 31, 2023

by Liad Hollender, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock Researchers reveal how a new assessment of health called ‘human functioning’ could bridge health and well-being, with far reaching benefits to individuals and society as a whole. Despite its great promise, this new tool has not been implemented widely in healthcare and policy.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Read the full story at Farm Progress. Scaling up climate-smart agriculture practices across complex landscapes and diverse ecosystems can be challenging.

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