Pathbreaking Groundwater Research

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:27:13 +0000

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, Courtesy of Berkeley Law. California’s tremendous thirst for water poses a grave challenge to its future, from an everyday perspective and in the longer battle of combating climate change — and is a bellwether for the rest of America and the world. At Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE), […]

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Clean Energy 101: Reducing Climate Pollution from the Plastics Industry

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:00:52 +0000

Clean Energy 101: Decarbonizing plastic production and disposal is essential for a safer climate future. Plastics are flying under the radar as a major contributor to climate change. While the negative environmental impacts of solid pollutants like ocean plastics have entered mainstream awareness, the general public and industry alike struggle to understand the outsize impact […]

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Beaver Dams Could Help Alleviate Drought

Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:13:58 +0000

Montanans are working to alleviate the impact of the region’s climate-fueled drought by building faux beaver dams, and they’re hoping to attract beavers back to the region in the process, Yale Climate Connections reports. European colonizers wiped out local beaver populations. Now, the Big Hole Watershed Committee is building replica beaver dams to slow runoff-fed […]

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New Model Could Help Break Through Inefficiencies Of Common Water Treatment Systems

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:30:30 +0000

In April 2022, a team of engineers hiked into California’s Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt for snow. Instead, they found mostly bare, dry dirt and only a few of the snow patches that provide one-third of California’s water supply. In the coming decades, water scarcity and insecurity are likely to intensify across much of the […]

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NASA: 2022 Was 5th-Warmest Year On Record

Credit to Author: NASA| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:01:25 +0000

2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks back at how heat was expressed in different ways around the world in 2022. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathleen Gaeta Editor’s Note: This release was updated Thursday, Jan. 12 to […]

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