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Sustainable Finance 101: The Impact of Climate Change on Your Money

Enviromental Defense

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Perspective | Giant Catch in the Mekong Reveals Mysteries of Biodiversity Hot Spot

Circle of Blue

The stingray was tagged with a tracking device and returned to the Mekong River, where its movements are informing conservation planning. Hearing the news, our team members rushed to the site from Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. In June 2022, fishers in Cambodia caught a giant freshwater stingray weighing 661 pounds (300 kilos).

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Confronting the Climate Crisis with Scientist Activism: the Essential Role of Rule Breakers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Members of my team ask with each new dire development, “is it time to chain ourselves to something?” Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. One recent example in the news is front of mind for many climate scientists.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.13.21

PA Environment Daily

14 PA Bulletin page 4927 ) -- TribLive: North Park’s Demonstration Garden A Proving Ground For Flowers Of The Future -- WHYY: New State-Funded Community Garden Will Sprout In Norristown -- Center For Rural Pennsylvania: To Hold Aug.

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‘Many kids go through a phase where they want to be a marine scientist. For me, it wasn’t a phase’

Frontiers

We found that tagged sharks spent most of their time adjacent to the MPA, in an area of heavy commercial shark fishing. I’m looking forward to seeing more research on the efficacy of MPAs as nature-based solutions to climate change, especially in the high seas and deep ocean.

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Frontiers responds to the US National Institutes of Health’s call on public access to science

Frontiers

From health emergencies to climate change, we see and feel them now. And that data includes persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as that of ORCID for author identification, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the article itself, and tags to the relevant grant funding or research institution. We face global, existential threats.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

-- AP: After Decades Of Delays And Broken Promises, Coal Miners Hail Rule To Slow Rise Of Black Lung Disease -- Scranton Times Editorial: Overdue Action On Coal Mine Safety -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Adaptation Carries $15 Billion Price Tag For PA Towns, Study Says -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PA Municipalities Have Big Climate Tab (..)