Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

The climate crisis will also change the speed of flows in our seas, as storm tracks change and sea levels rise. Installing the next generation of offshore wind farms is likely to mobilise extra sediment, potentially affecting a large area around a wind farm.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 6, 2021

The country’s location also makes it vulnerable to other natural disasters including frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions as well as tsunamis, sea-level rise, storm surges, landslides, flooding, and drought. © 2020, Planet Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved. “We Paler, Senior Science Research Specialist at DOST-ASTI.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

Processing aerial images for remote job-site inspections Informing adoption of grid-enhancing technologies and accelerating interconnection queues to get projects connected to the grid Enabling modelling for distributed energy resource adoption to anticipate distribution system upgrades and implications for load and load shape.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Climate change can also be an important salinity driver when river deltas meet the sea, like in the Netherlands. When the sea level rises, salt water travels further upstream and can make the rivers saltier. For more information, please visit the Utrecht University website. Thorslund, J., Bierkens, M.F.P.,

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are proud to see that our data is empowering governments as they evaluate national climate risks; it’s providing the agricultural sector critical with insights into crop health; it’s revealing species dynamics in biodiverse ecosystems; and it’s informing the public on the global energy transition. SkySat image of Malé in the Maldives.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting Steven Bullock Mon, 09/28/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Trucost, part of S&P Global. Each can apply TCFD reporting intelligence to inform better decisions in different ways. View post: Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2021

They tasked SkySat to acquire high-resolution imagery approximately every four days over their areas of interest to coincide with ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge passes, providing high-resolution topographic information alongside the routine near-daily PlanetScope coverage. View on May 9th is from Sentinel-2.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moreover, as sea level rise is expected to further confound these issues in addition to more extreme and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes, a better understanding of these dynamics will be essential for sustainable management of coastal resources.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Across Europe, National Road Administrations (NRAs) are having to deal with more frequent and severe weather, greater sea level rises and increased stress on infrastructure leading to higher deterioration rates. The impact of climate change on our road network is climbing the list of national priorities.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

We're fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. Correcting these market failures in order to spur rapid innovation in the blue economy is one of OCAP’s top priorities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The purpose of these reports is to provide everyone, particularly governing bodies, with the information they need to make important decisions regarding climate change. Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The study, carried out with the British Geological Survey, demonstrates the level of detail that can be drawn from geological information using modern analytical tools.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Floodplains are expanding into new areas with dense populations due to sea-level rise and land-use change, but the researchers also think people are building at an accelerated pace in flood-prone areas. But if that infrastructure ever breaks, the consequences are really devastating,” she said.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

This new information is coming from a better understanding of climate feedback loops, from new techniques in economic statistics, and from high-resolution data and modeling. Many coastal areas will find it impossible (or extremely costly) to adapt to continued sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This information connecting CO2 with climate change, which first appeared in the January memo, seems to have entered the White House’s orbit via a different route: A report produced by the philanthropic organization, the Conservation Foundation. Excerpt from the Task Force Report on Environmental Pollution, November 1964.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Branch, while only a few picked up the information and taught from it, a number of educators used the materials in their classrooms to teach about propaganda techniques. The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.”

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is trying to understand how much of that carbon stored in the melting permafrost makes its way into the sea, and eventually, into the atmosphere, where it will help heat up the planet. Her research could help inform what the Arctic’s ticking “ carbon bomb ” could unleash in the coming years.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. No one involved with the report recommends that the U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Floodplains are expanding into new areas with dense populations due to sea-level rise and land-use change, but the researchers also think people are building at an accelerated pace in flood-prone areas. But if that infrastructure ever breaks, the consequences are really devastating,” she said.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power. But in most cases there isn’t a direct line between science and policy action — and there never has been. Science can tell us that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, but it can’t tell us exactly how we should transition our economy to clean energy.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

From tiny mom-and-pop museums dedicated to niche topics to massive institutions like The Met and The Smithsonian, museums are widely viewed as some of the most trustworthy sources of information, and also as trusted stewards of cultural artifacts. “Museums are among the most trusted sources of information in the U.S.,”

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. A better way to match climate information with risk analysis. Petabytes of tempting data.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. She said the study should serve as a valuable resource to inform and support climate accountability lawsuits targeting fossil fuel producers.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Climate TRACE (short for Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) intends to use a massive worldwide network of satellite images, land- and sea-based sensors and advanced artificial intelligence to generate what it’s describing as the "most thorough and reliable data on emissions the world has ever seen.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question. Climate science should remain the hard basis for all decision making and target setting.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

With a projected global sea-level rise of 7-15 inches by 2065, according to the Southeast Florida Climate Compact 2015 projections, Miami communities stand to undergo drastic changes in development to combat the effects.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2022

A full evaluation of the programme will then help to inform future national policies and support wider coastal resilience activity. Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency, said it was vital that policymakers plan for increasing sea levels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I wanted to create an emotional impact, weave in science information and make a game that makes a difference. Related: Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs According to his developer blog , “I’ve self-funded the project because I want to make people care about the climate issue,” Volk explained. “I

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

New research , based on interviews and mind mapping of local community stakeholders in the town of Lowestoft on the East Coast of England, found that investing in public awareness, information and knowledge sharing can play a significant role in preparing a community for current and future risks.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. The synthesis report is expected to inform negotiations at this year’s U.N.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The city also took steps to integrate different sources of information and models. There are already more than 880 million people living in informal settlements worldwide, with limited access to shelter, electricity, clean water, sanitation and employment. trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030. “But

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Cyclone Amphan slammed into countries surrounding the Sea of Bengal this May. The storm was the second most powerful the region has seen in two decades, affecting over 12 million people in four countries. In Bangladesh, the water surged up to 4. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 More than 140,000 readers get one of The Conversation’s informative newsletters.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming. Document 1: 1959.

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