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Report: Getting Building Height Right for the Climate
GreenTechMedia discusses Getting Building Height Right for the Climate. Skyscrapers use and lose more energy than low-rise buildings, research shows. Can smarter design and technology change that?
It may seem obvious that cities filled with big buildings use energy more efficiently than dispersed suburban landscapes, and that newer, taller buildings […]
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Report: Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis
The Guardian discusses Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis. Data from 120,000 birdwatchers in 48 countries shows forest birds have expanded their range while area occupied by farmland birds has shrunk.
Europe’s breeding bird populations have shifted on average one kilometre north every year for the past […]
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Report: TOXIC PFAS CHEMICALS DISCOVERED IN HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS
The Intercept discusses TOXIC PFAS CHEMICALS DISCOVERED IN HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS. Climbing ropes, guitar strings, and hand sanitizer are among the newly reported uses for the toxic “forever” chemicals.
SCIENTISTS HAVE DETAILED more than 200 uses of PFAS chemicals in 64 industrial areas, including mining, book conservation, plastics production, photography, printing, watchmaking, car […]
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Study: How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees
The New York Times discusses How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees. Honeybees and their problems get the most attention, but scientists are using tactics learned from bird conservation to protect American bees.
In the last 20 years, the rusty patched bumblebee population declined by 87 percent […]
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Studies: Families and advocates criticize Pa.’s fracking health studies
NPR discusses Families and advocates criticize Pa.’s fracking health studies. State announced $3.9 M studies after pressure from families of rare cancer patients in SW PA.
Two state-funded studies to determine whether fracking had anything to do with a group of childhood cancer cases in southwestern Pennsylvania are receiving criticism from advocates […]
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Study: How pollution from wildfire smoke affects teens’ health
ABC News discusses a New study shows how pollution from wildfire smoke affects teens’ health. Researchers at Stanford University looked at teens who were exposed to wildfire smoke this year in Fresno, Calif. [No link provided.]
The study found those teens had an increased amount of inflammatory markers in their blood.
That […]
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Report: Let’s stop treating soil like dirt – all life relies on the ecosystems under our feet
Independent discusses Let’s stop treating soil like dirt – all life relies on the ecosystems under our feet. Instead of pouring chemicals into the world’s magnificent muddy habitats, let’s protect them.
In his collection of verse The Soil Never Sleeps, Adam Horovitz refers to the power of the “microscopic multiverse” where “all the sciences […]
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Report: Climate change is threatening your company’s building.
Fast Company discusses how Climate change is threatening your company’s building. Insurance won’t be enough to protect it. ‘Insurance companies are more hesitant to offer large policies, rates are going up, and overall it’s getting […]
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Report: The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Officially in ‘Critical’ Condition
Vice discusses why The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Officially in ‘Critical’ Condition. A UNESCO advisory body had made the sobering announcement after several years of back-to-back bleachings.
The Great Barrier Reef’s condition was given the worst possible rating this week, as a UNESCO advisory body named climate change as […]
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Study: Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener
Wired discusses Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener. Using tricked-out drones, scientists are watching vegetation boom in the far north. Their findings could have big implications for the whole planet.
THE ARCTIC IS getting greener, and it’s about as pretty as you might expect—vast stretches of coastal land […]
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