Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 19, 2022

News Briefs. Virgin Islands — pledged $11.9 The number of days that Great Lakes beaches are closed due to contaminated waters is decreasing but in-water heat waves are increasing. To get more water news, follow Circle of Blue on Twitter and sign up for our newsletter. States Slow to Distribute Disaster Recovery Aid.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. A multidisciplinary team of scientists will work with city officials and community groups to protect vulnerable residents and communities from extreme weather, flooding, urban heat islands and fossil fuel pollution.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. In international news, this week marks the start of a critical UN climate conference, known as COP26. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. ————————. Senate race.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The sound of Greenlandic is in the air as I board the plane to Kangerlussuaq, my entry point to the world’s largest island and one of the most massive and active ice sheets on the planet. The good news is that our capacity to face hard realities is wired into us as humans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

After the 2021 “heat dome” that saw Portland, Oregon hit 116 degrees and Seattle soar to 106, a Los Angeles Times headline said: “Northwest heat wave swamped the vulnerable, was a harsh climate wake-up call.” That calls for uncharacteristic urgency to turn down the heat. Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Record-setting rainfall has turned the floodplain into a network of islands, forcing hundreds to evacuate and leaving many more awaiting rescues by boat or helicopter. The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. In Case You Missed It:

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A Greener Life

JULY 28, 2021

With heatwaves in the news again, there’s been a bit of a wake-up call on the growing risk of heat. Cities will want to consider how resilient they are to the increasing threat of heatwaves as the climate warms – especially as exposure to heat is a matter of justice. By Jeremy Williams. Here are a handful of strategies.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 7, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. But the acceleration is also occurring because a supercharged climate is churning up more powerful hurricanes, more punishing droughts, more oppressive heat waves — altogether more environmental and water-related risk. Inside Climate News reports that researchers from the University of Alaska Southeast, the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2022

As residents at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on the Hawaiian island of Oahu returned home months after jet fuel from a U.S. More Drought News: As drought spreads throughout California, local food systems are under threat. More Water News. That number jumped to eight percent when exposed to severe drought. 101 RESERVOIRS.

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Science & Climate

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This study provides the most detailed mapping yet of how summer temperatures in 20 urban centers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas affected different neighborhoods between 2018 and 2020. The researchers found even greater heat disparities in California than in other states. Media contact(s).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ExxonMobil internal science, spanning from 1977 to 2003, featured graphs showing how temperatures would rise as a result of the heat-trapping emissions produced from burning the fossil fuels the company extracted, refined, marketed, and sold. Exxon and other companies knew , but deliberately misled us for decades.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 13, 2023

Armed with guidebooks, local floras and “The Shipping News,” the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by E. Annie Proulx, the trip’s botanist and the Academy’s Collection Manager for Botany, Chelsea Smith, PhD, was looking forward to investigating the plants of this Canadian province, as well as escaping the heat of July in Philadelphia.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. Though it was a sudden death, happening overnight during a record-smashing June heat wave, the demise of Maralee and Noal Childs’s household water well was not entirely unexpected. Three River Communities, Worlds Apart, Tell Stories of Indigeneity in the Age of the Anthropocene – On the Caribbean island of St.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. Intense heat waves are deadly for those without air conditioning or water. More water news and analysis await you at circleofblue.org. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. Droughts can increase pollutant levels in groundwater.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

By Tim Schley, Penn State News Concrete is as ubiquitous in cities as it is impervious. In addition to controlling the flow of stormwater and retaining contaminants, GSI may help mitigate urban heat islands — pockets of high temperatures caused by dense grey infrastructure like buildings and pavement retaining heat.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The good news is that physicists have a vital part to play, being good at deconstructing problems into their essential elements and speeding up the development of solutions. The unfortunate events were a result of this year’s extraordinary heat wave in western North America, which followed a sequence familiar to meteorologists.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

As western states grapple with the effects of drought and a drying climate, arid land, shrinking water supplies and intense heat have become the norm. You can share this interview and find more water news and analysis at Circleofblue.org. Dry conditions are setting records nearly every week. Thanks for listening.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Million For Electric Vehicle Charging Investments From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Equals Jobs & Cleaner Air For PA Agriculture Permanently Protects Additional 1,969 Acres Of Farmland Bringing Total To 600,000+ Health Dept. 11 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available; Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 684 ) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Mowry Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with heating oil to the Statewide Health Standard at the well pad located in Tuscarora Twp., Bradford County. ( Bradford County. ( Bradford County. ( Bradford County. ( Branford County. (

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The term has become politically volatile, yet recognizing a community’s risk level – whether it’s risk of flooding, heat, earthquakes or forest fires – and then deciding how to address it is key to assuring our societal safety.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Wherever you live, and if you’ve been following news headlines, you know that climate change is dangerously supercharging extreme weather, with deadly and costly consequences for millions of people around the world. alone is responsible for almost a quarter of the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change, on a cumulative basis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind. And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. There are five good reasons: power, place, people, policy, and price.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At the start of May of this year, in anticipation of summer’s heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and deepening droughts, my colleagues and I started characterizing summer in the United States as “ Danger Season.” Indeed, the island will need sustained attention and resources to build resilience to increasingly severe hurricanes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That’s great news because swapping gasoline and diesel vehicles for EVs is an essential strategy to reduce local air pollution and climate change emissions from transportation. The good news is that getting up to speed to merge onto the highway in your EV will be a breeze, even while towing. Will I have to charge more in cold weather?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The good news for New Englanders is that a more effective solution for winter reliability is finally within reach. This meant that less gas than usual was available for gas-fired power plants because they typically rely on “non-firm” contracts that entitle them only to the gas that is left over after heating needs are met.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2021

Million PennVEST Grant To Replace Lead Service Connections -- Huntingdon News: Broad Top Twp. Supervisors Concerned About Future Of Growing Greener Funds -- PA Bulletin: DEP Revised Water Quality Assessment Methodologies Available For Public Comment -- TribLive: Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

New Zealand had earlier also indicated support for a fund. In a news story yesterday, the Association of Small Island States (AOSIS), which includes some of the most climate-vulnerable nations in the world, declared that securing a fund here is essential for them. UN News/Laura Quiñones. to come to an agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Repeated scandals broke through in the news about the COP28 Presidency’s conflicts of interest and offhand comments that seemingly denied the science. (My Minister Cedric Schuster of Samoa, speaking on behalf of the Association of Small Island States (AOSIS), said bluntly , “We will not sign our death certificate.”

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

The first is the Aleutian Below (south of the Aleutian Islands), the other the Aleutian Above (north of the islands). The sun receives a constant stream of energy produced by nuclear processes that generate an immense amount of heat, light, and radiation. Also, like the NAO, there are two phases.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: July 18, 2023] PA Environment Digest Entries For PA Resources Council Lens On Litter Photo Contest Due Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Parks heating faster than the nation as a whole It begs the question of how often families must be smoked out, scorched out, or flooded out of parks for these treasures become a more prominent rallying cry to fight global warming.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Available Via Zoom -- WESA: Contest Asks PA Kids To Create Art About Tick Bite Prevention -- Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

1 national trending Twitter topic Friday afternoon after a spokesperson for the beverage company's exclusive bottler in Russia reportedly told a Russian state-owned news agency that it would continue all business operations in the country.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

1 national trending Twitter topic Friday afternoon after a spokesperson for the beverage company's exclusive bottler in Russia reportedly told a Russian state-owned news agency that it would continue all business operations in the country.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

1 national trending Twitter topic Friday afternoon after a spokesperson for the beverage company's exclusive bottler in Russia reportedly told a Russian state-owned news agency that it would continue all business operations in the country.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And you don't get melt off heat if it's in deep enough. “According to them [Sunoco], they say it's deep enough, but like I said, you go out there when it's got snowfall and the road's melted for a four foot area at that ditch right above where that pipe goes over top of that rock. You know what I'm saying?”

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