PBS Nature

MAY 13, 2025

No two Radiated Tortoises are alikeeach shell tells its own story. In the heart of Madagascars Spiny Forest, a trio of Malagasy herpetologist ladies are rewilding these critically endangered creaturesone tortoise at a time.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2025

Program areas include air quality, clean water, environmental cleanup & brownfields, mining, oil & gas, radiation protection, safe drinking water, waste management and waterways engineering. With this new tool, users can search by county, program area, permit type or by the authorization (permit) ID or by keyword.

Radiation

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

They focused specifically on two marine CDR approaches—ocean alkalinity enhancement and biomass cultivation for carbon removal (including seaweed cultivation and sinking) —and two solar radiation management techniques—marine cloud brightening and surface albedo enhancement. Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

While these simulations assimilate observational data, over most of the ocean surface these are basically sea surface temperatures, but surface heat loss depends also on air temperature, wind speed, humidity, radiation and cloud cover in complex ways, all of which are not accurately known.

Ocean

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Engineers can … Continue reading To make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day, scientists will first need to design heat- and radiation-resilient materials Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core of the Sun, where very light elements merge and release energy in the process.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The permit applications fail to identify the hazardous contaminants being carried by the produced water in the pipeline, and the project is devoid of any radiation monitoring, radiation protection plans, appropriate training, or emergency response procedures for highly radioactive substances.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Cool roof requirements typically set standards for how much incoming solar radiation roofing materials must reflect—defined in terms of solar reflectance, thermal emissivity, or a calculated combination of the two expressed as solar reflective index (SRI).

Cooling

PBS Nature

MAY 14, 2025

It takes 15 years of care before a baby Radiated Tortoise is ready for life in the wild, similar to raising a human child.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Radiation Protection: Keeping Pennsylvanians Safe Few states have a radiological landscape as complex as Pennsylvania. DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection also leads public education efforts, including radon awareness and mitigation, earning national recognition for its comprehensive safety programs.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Over $120 million in DEPs budget would be at risk, including basic support for the Air Quality, Water Quality, Safe Drinking Water, Radiation Protection, Storage Tanks and related grants to support local projects. million -- Air Pollution Control Grants - $6.8 million -- Water Pollution Control - $$5.5 million -- Water Quality Planning - $1.15

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Conference will bring together scientists, public health experts, industry leaders, and advocacy groups to explore the latest research and insights on unconventional oil and gas development, its environmental impact and associated health risks, and community wins and responses.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 7, 2025

Radioactive materials from these nuclear tests mixed with debris from the blast, fell to the earth with rain, or were spread by the wind, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to dangerous levels of radiation. The fallout from atmospheric tests created a global health crisisand scientists raised the alarm.

Radiation

Circle of Blue

JULY 22, 2025

Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy and dozens of rounds of radiation to fight aggressive breast cancer, and Janan Haugen spends most days helping care for her 16-year-old grandson, who is still being treated for brain cancer he developed at the age of 7. This story was originally published by The New Lede.

Radiation

Real Climate

MARCH 19, 2025

When rock surfaces are exposed, isotopes such as carbon-14 and beryllium-10 form due to bombardment by cosmic radiation. If, however, the rock is covered by an ice sheet, it is shielded from this radiation, and these unstable isotopes gradually disappear through radioactive decay (with half-lives of 5,700 and 1.4

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Environmental Groups Appeal CNX Slickville Pipelines Permits -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.

Conservation

Nature

JULY 1, 2025

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09198-2 A climate-trade-off risk curve derived from uncertainties in the radiative-forcing components indicates that focusing on reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective than reducing CO2 emissions.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Community members were exposed to radiation through several pathways including breathing airborne particles, ingesting contaminated fish and vegetables, drinking milk from cows that ate contaminated grass, and skin contact with or ingestion of contaminated river or groundwater.

Radiation

Physics World

JUNE 2, 2025

Synchrotrons are high-energy particle accelerators that produce bright, high-quality beams of coherent electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths ranging from the infrared to soft X-rays. One application for this synchrotron radiation is a technique called three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3DXRD) microscopy.

Radiation

Physics World

JUNE 17, 2025

Another option is to use infrared radiation. This tracer, however, exposes patients to a higher (albeit still safe) dose of radiation than with a mammogram, which means that patients have to be imaged for a long time to get enough signal. Biopsies are often done with visual light but that can damage a sample, making diagnosis tricky.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Ozone is produced from precursors in the presence of ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, and global warming creates conditions favorable to ozone formation by accelerating chemical reactions. Between 1990 and 2020, national concentrations of ozone were reduced by 25 percent, but this progress is eroding. According to the report, 125.2

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [PaEN] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: Setback (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Although the US government knew the risks of radiation to humans, many Navajo miners were still sent into mines with poor ventilation and safety regulations skirted. Furthermore, about six times more radiation than was released in the spill was released into the Puerco River from 20 years of mine dewatering. years for males and 71.8

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

For instance, explaining nuclear toxicology concepts is important for helping the public understand why and how to avoid radiation exposure. The nominee must be able to communicate complex scientific concepts so clearly that your grandma (and even the President ) will understand.

Radiation

Physics World

APRIL 4, 2025

This effect captures the energy from highly-penetrating gamma rays indirectly, by coupling a photovoltaic solar cell to a scintillator crystal that emits visible light when it absorbs radiation. The greater the radiation intensity, the more light is produced, resulting in increased electricity generation,” Cao explains.

Waste

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Populations who live near sites storing and producing TENORM can experience direct gamma radiation, inhalation of contaminated dust, inhalation of downwind radon, ingestion of contaminated well water, ingestion of food contaminated by well water, and ingestion of food contaminated by dust deposition.

2011

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] Read more here. The release of [radioactive] radium, a known carcinogen, is a potential threat to human health.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The Clean Air Act explicitly defines an air pollutant as any air pollution agent or combination of such agents and there is precedent for grouping pollutants with similar effects together (see, e.g., 65 Fed.

2009

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [October 2023] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [January 2024] -- Environmental Health (..)

Ozone

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life.

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 15, 2025

The NCEH coordinates programs to protect Americans from health hazards like natural disasters and severe weather, poor air quality and asthma, lead poisoning, and radiation exposure. Already, the cuts to the NCEHs lead program have left Milwaukee schools without CDC expertise and guidance in dealing with a lead poisoning investigation.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Doug Burgum To Lead US Dept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

And in several such states, amendments are starting to appear, which mostly narrow the prohibited aims to just solar radiation management, defined to include injection of stratospheric aerosols that increase atmospheric reflectivity or decrease the intensity of sunlight. Download as PDF

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

He pointed to a series of medical visits and diagnoses medical professionals called, hydraulic fracking/volatile hydrocarbon exposure, respiratory irritation from hydrocarbon exposure, neurotoxicity, and radiation exposure.

Natural Gas

Physics World

JULY 21, 2025

I’ve specialised in applied nuclear science throughout my career, with a particular focus on neutronics – the analysis of neutron transport — and radiation detection applied to nuclear technologies. Can you tell me about your career to date?

Technology

Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

Each of the regulations Zeldin is seeking to roll back is worthy of a separate post, Each tackles a major air, water, or climate pollution problem: cross state air pollution; radiation from coal ash (more toxic than nuclear waste); hazardous air pollutants emitted from chemical plants, including ethylene oxide and chloroprene; fine particulate matter; (..)

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [October 2023] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [January 2024] -- Environmental Health (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Furthermore, the Trump administration nominated Aaron Szabo to serve as assistant administrator of EPAs Office of Air and Radiation. Under the Biden Administration, EPA affirmed its reliance on the 2016 IRIS assessment, but the new regulations for chemical manufacturing and sterilization facilities are now on the chopping block.

Toxic Substances Control Act