Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But its ongoing practices tell a very different story. Together with Scientists for Global Responsibility, we’ve launched a petition demanding that Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, detail their plans to align their business practices with their public commitments to address climate change. Who or what is Elsevier?

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 I decided I needed to start working on a solution – and find the ‘yes’ to the ‘no.’ Most people do not know what an energy grid is or how it functions. I am from the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Little Buffalo, Alberta.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Kearney and Merrill show that the story is a bit more complex than the conventional tale of private greed versus the public interest. inches of rain fell.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

They can also shape the public perception and awareness of the most pressing issues of our time, such as the climate crisis. However, a new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center has found that most TV and film scripts are ignoring the climate crisis, or failing to address it in a meaningful and realistic way. C by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I love the way the state isn’t afraid to lead in times of great change. But those workers, all the Rosies riveting away under welding helmets, sleeping in shifts, for months and even years, didn’t know how the story would end. Here’s what we at UCS are doing to make that happen. The state continues to lead.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you’re concerned about climate change and inspired to take action, and are looking for where to begin – you’re in the right place! A piece of wisdom before we dive in – we know that facing climate change is daunting alone. So, what can you do about climate change? Here’s how to get started.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. First, have you wondered why all the news your Google search finds seems to spell climate D-O-O-M? Maybe its because the UN has teamed up with the search engine to bury the kind of stories you see here. California has a solution!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 26, 2024

With the urgency climate change demands, they came from a diverse array of states with an important and powerful message to share: keep IRA funding for conservation programs in agriculture. This can include improving practices already carried out, or finding new conservation practices that complement what farmers are already doing.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is early September, and we are late into what we at UCS call Danger Season , or the period between May and October when climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity, and/or duration of extreme weather events such as heat waves and wildfires. F, breaking the previous record of 114°F from 1925. Your feet get hot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The current rules require a 20 percent reduction in the CI of transportation fuels by 2030, which the proposed amendments would change to 30 percent in 2030 and 90 percent in 2045. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is set to consider the proposed changes on March 21. What broke the LCFS? What broke the LCFS?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This year, I had the honor to participate in two panel discussions on climate migration in my role as Climate Displacement Project Strategist at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and a nonresident fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. This week’s post adds stories created and gathered by National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) members around the country.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. What should we know about the influence of the CCA during this session?

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Drawdown is one of my favourite climate books, an extensive study into the top fifty ways to reverse climate change, edited into an accessible and inspiring book by Paul Hawken. The emphasis has shifted from a potential menu of solutions to what it might look like to take action – from a ‘what if?’

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth. Though vivid, the shark metaphor is an inadequate frame for some of 2022’s defining water stories.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the UN climate conference last week, Colombian officials said they would declare 30 percent of the country as protected land by next year. Climate change is threatening freshwater systems in Colombia, where cloud forests provide 70 percent of the country’s drinking water. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 1, 2023

by Dr. Ailene Ettinger, Quantitative Ecologist, Coda Fellow, Natural Climate Solutions Prototyping Network My eyes burned with sweat as I peered up at the blazing sun, wondering how much hotter it was going to get. This trip was part of my internal TNC fellowship with the  Natural Climate Solutions Prototyping Network.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. The vast majority of projects never get off the ground.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), or an urban development approach aimed at minimizing the impacts of urban development on the environment, poses one solution to the city’s water woes.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 14, 2023

Read the full story from NPR. Scientists say there’s a lot we can still do to slow the speed of climate change. But when it comes to “climate solutions”, some are real, and some aren’t, says Naomi Oreskes, historian of science at Harvard University.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They are living and accessible examples of how far we’ve come, and they are holders of the stories illustrating how far we still need to go. Seeing scientists alongside activists fighting for a safer world made me want to explore ways that I could also help effect change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 9, 2022

Lately, there has been a lot of talk all over the world about the birds and the bees — that is, how they are impacted by the environmentally devastating effects of climate change and how humans play a role in this process. What’s the story behind your book? Tell us about yourselves.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2023

His research focuses on the intersection of digitalization and climate change, environmental degradation, and the future of food production. Advocates of precision agriculture often frame technology as a seamless solution to the problems that ecological crisis and climate change pose to food systems.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little?

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. Some of the changes in our ocean will be irreversible. What can we do to tackle the climate crisis?

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Over time, as the climate warms, the costs of rebuilding from the impacts of climate change will soar. A new estimate puts the cost of adapting and repairing coastal infrastructure damaged by climate change in the United States at hundreds of billions annually. By Michael Allen.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 31, 2023

The term “sea foam” reminds me of two things: when I convinced my parents to let me paint my childhood bedroom “sea foam” green and the gruesome ending of Hans Christian Anderson’s original story of The Little Mermaid. But occasionally, when the shore gets extra foamy, I can’t help but wonder—what is sea foam really made of?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Fish & Us: Climate Stories from the Waterfront was conceived last year with a goal of raising awareness and sharing stories about the impacts of climate change on marine fisheries, as told by the people who spend their days catching, managing and researching fish from the ocean. marine fisheries?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 29, 2023

Coastal communities in southern Senegal are reckoning with environmental change. Rising seas have caused inland flooding and saltwater intrusion, both symptoms of global warming in what is “one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change,” Al Jazeera reports.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. Climate change and human activity are driving desertification, a form of land degradation which leads to vegetation loss and fewer water sources. . Land cover change in Yusufari from 1984 to 2021. The result?

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Reading How to Think About the Climate Crisis , I got the distinct impression that it was a difficult book to write. Given that there is a website with an appendix for every chapter, some of which run longer than the chapters themselves, perhaps part of the problem is what to leave out.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Are You Telling Your Story? 2 In The Country When It Comes To Citizen Militias, What Does Constitution Say About That? WEDNESDAY 6:30: Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

What we have achieved in response to the pandemic is phenomenal. This scientific success story is an open science success story. A lack of access to scientific research, the majority of which is publicly funded, slows down scientific discovery and solutions to global challenges.

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