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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Union of Concerned Scientists

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Montana “Youth Citizens” Win Landmark Climate Change Case Against State Government

Legal Planet

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.

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Introducing Our Blog Series on Clean Hydrogen

Law and Environment

We’re launching this blog series to help readers keep pace with the fast-moving world of clean hydrogen. We need a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change, one that targets all sectors of the economy. The post Introducing Our Blog Series on Clean Hydrogen first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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National Parks, Climate Change, and Active Management

Legal Planet

The tree cutting was begun this past year, and the National Park Service asserts that the projects are urgently needed to address fire risk , prompted in part by a series of fires in and around the park over the past several years, some of which have come close to damaging key park resources like sequoia groves or Yosemite Valley.

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PA Forest Seminar Series: June 11 - Pollinators In Pennsylvania Forests Webinar

PA Environment Daily

as part of its Pennsylvania Forest Seminar Series. Penn State Extension will host a June 11 Pollinators in Pennsylvania Forests webinar at Noon and 9:00 p.m. Insect declines have been well-documented globally and conservation actions are being taken to mitigate and reverse those declines.

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Two-part Stateline series on relocating endangered species impacted by climate change

Environmental News Bits

Stateline recently did a two-part series about a federal proposal to relocate endangered species outside their historic ranges. Part 1 takes an in-depth look at the proposal from the viewpoint of federal wildlife managers and ecologists. Part 2 discusses the widely diverging reactions of state wildlife officials.