News: Earth & Climate — Environmental Policy

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1### [It's Go Time for Hawaiian Bird Conservation, and Luckily There's a Playbook](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180627160536.htm)
1### [States Boost Renewable Energy and Development When Utilities Adopt Renewable Standards](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723142824.htm)
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3June 27, 2018 - A new study presents some of the best guidance to date on the priorities and actions that can be taken to help Hawaii's endemic birds. This article lays out a plan to better guide and empower ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180627160536.htm)
3July 23, 2018 - States that require utilities to increase renewable energy see expansion of renewable energy facilities and generation -- including wind and other renewable sources, but especially solar -- according ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723142824.htm)
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7### [Who Shares Similar Experiences of Climate Change in a 1.5°C World and Beyond?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625130922.htm)
7### [Vessel Tracking Exposes the Dark Side of Trading at Sea](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723071611.htm)
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9June 25, 2018 - A new framework to understand how uneven the effects of a 1.5°C world are for different countries around the world has been published ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625130922.htm)
9July 23, 2018 - Transshipment -- exchanging seafood, crew or supplies between boats at sea -- is common in many fisheries, but it creates opportunity for illegal activity involving drugs and people. This first ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723071611.htm)
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13June 25, 2018 - Coal power versus wind and solar energy -- debates about the Paris climate targets often center around electricity supply. Yet, even in a world of stringent climate policies and a clean power ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625122508.htm)
13### [Scientists Identify Most Pressing Issues Posed by Chemicals in the Environment](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180720092503.htm)
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15July 20, 2018 - Chemicals released into the environment by human activity are resulting in biodiversity loss; increased natural hazards; threats to food, water and energy security; negative impacts on human health ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180720092503.htm)
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17### [Scientists Calculate Impact of China's Ban on Plastic Waste Imports](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620150208.htm)
19July 19, 2018 - Roughly four out of five Americans support the Endangered Species Act, and only one in 10 oppose it, found a survey of 1,287 Americans. Support has remained stable for the past two ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719121800.htm)
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19June 20, 2018 - Scientists have calculated the potential global impact of China's ban on plastic waste imports and how this policy might affect efforts to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620150208.htm)
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23### ['Green'-Feed: Industrial Microbes Could Feed Cattle, Pigs, Chicken](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620094825.htm)
23### [A Social Tool for Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Residential Buildings](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719101258.htm)
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25June 20, 2018 - Today, producing feed for pigs, cattle and chicken causes immense impacts for the climate and the environment. In the future, animal feed production is likely to be shifted from croplands to ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620094825.htm)
25July 19, 2018 - for the first time, an open-source computing tool can, simply and intuitively, calculate the CO2 emissions in each phase of a building project, in order to obtain a global picture of its carbon ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719101258.htm)
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29June 19, 2018 - Climate change will have a rapidly increasing effect on the structure of global ecological communities over the next few decades, with amphibians and reptiles being significantly more affected than ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619230846.htm)
29July 19, 2018 - The historic peace treaty in Colombia which brought an end to half a century of violence has led to mass deforestation. Once FARC soldiers were disarmed, it led to a vacuum of power which is being ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719085407.htm)
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33### [Machine Learning May Be a Game-Changer for Climate Prediction](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619173547.htm)
33July 18, 2018 - Climate lobbying is big business. A new analysis shows that between 2000 and 2016, lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars on influencing relevant legislation in the US Congress. ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180718223101.htm)
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35June 19, 2018 - New research demonstrates that machine-learning techniques can be used to accurately represent clouds and their atmospheric heating and moistening, and better represent clouds in coarse resolution ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619173547.htm)
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39June 19, 2018 - Palm oil has become part of our daily lives, but a recent study serves as a reminder that intensive farming of this crop has a major impact on the environment. Both short- and long-term solutions ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619123018.htm)
37July 18, 2018 - The research matched pollution data to monthly park visitation statistics at 33 heavily visited national parks and found that visitation responds most to ozone during months with poor air ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180718143112.htm)
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43### [Climate Action Can Limit Asia's Growing Water Shortages](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619122453.htm)
41### [Effort to Preserve Lory Population Shows Success](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180718092505.htm)
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45June 19, 2018 - Even 'modest' action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year 2050, according to a new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619122453.htm)
43July 18, 2018 - A long-term plan to preserve the Rimatara lorikeet by restoring an extirpated population of the species on a neighboring island that is free of predatory ship rats is demonstrating the importance of ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180718092505.htm)
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49### [Reduction in Sulfur Emissions from Power Plants in China](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222620.htm)
47### [What Psychological Science Can Offer to Reducing Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180717094750.htm)
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51June 18, 2018 - Air pollution has smothered China's cities in recent decades. In response, the Chinese government has implemented measures to clean up its skies. But are those policies effective? Now scholars ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222620.htm)
49July 17, 2018 - The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180717094750.htm)
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55June 18, 2018 - Local conservation actions can significantly boost coral's resilience to, and recovery from, climate-induced thermal bleaching by reducing other energy-sapping stresses the coral faces, a new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222430.htm)
53July 16, 2018 - As the world seeks to curb human-induced climate change, will protecting the carbon of tropical forests also ensure the survival of their species? A study suggests the answer to this question is far ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716164520.htm)
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59### [Meeting Paris Climate Targets Will Require a Substantial Reallocation of Global Investment](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618113033.htm)
57July 16, 2018 - A new study could lead to more accurate predictions or the rate of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions produced by thawing permafrost in the next 100 years. The study of the microorganisms ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716151529.htm)
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61June 18, 2018 - A new analysis by an international team of scientists shows that low carbon investments will need to markedly increase if the world is to achieve the Paris Agreement aim of keeping global warming ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618113033.htm)
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65June 18, 2018 - Researchers argue that the world needs more diverse, ambitious and area-specific targets for retaining important natural systems to safeguard ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618113014.htm)
61July 16, 2018 - Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716141627.htm)
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69### [Better Be Safe Than Sorry: Economic Optimization Risks Tipping of Earth System Elements](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180615154429.htm)
65### [Indigenous Peoples Own or Manage at Least One Quarter of World's Land Surface](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716130732.htm)
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71June 15, 2018 - Optimizing economic welfare without constraints might put human well-being at risk, a new climate study argues. While being successful in bringing down costs of greenhouse gas reductions for ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180615154429.htm)
67July 16, 2018 - Indigenous Peoples have ownership, use and management rights over at least a quarter of the world's land surface according to a new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716130732.htm)
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75June 14, 2018 - The world's system for allocating fish stocks is being outpaced by the movement of fish species in response to climate change, according to a study undertaken by an international team of marine ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213727.htm)
71### [Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Limit Sea Level Rise](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716130724.htm)
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73July 16, 2018 - A new study demonstrates that a correlation also exists between cumulative carbon emissions and future sea level rise over time -- and the news isn't ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716130724.htm)
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79June 14, 2018 - Members of the public are more likely to blame the global marine litter crisis on retailers, industry and government, according to new ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213703.htm)
77July 16, 2018 - Preventing reservoir evaporation during droughts with floating balls may not help conserve water overall, due to the water needed to make the ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716114605.htm)
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83June 14, 2018 - The next 10 years will be critical for the future of Antarctica, and choices made will have long-lasting consequences, says an international group of Antarctic research scientists. It lays out two ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213849.htm)
81### [Flipping the Switch: Making Use of Carbon Price Dollars for Health and Education](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716114501.htm)
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83July 16, 2018 - A switch from subsidizing fossil fuel to pricing CO2-emissions would not only help to meet global climate targets but also create additional domestic public revenues. These revenues could finance ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716114501.htm)
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87### [More Harm Than Good: Assessing the Nuclear Arsenal Tipping Point](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613101950.htm)
87### [Better Methods Improve Measurements of Recreational Water Quality](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180713135114.htm)
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89June 13, 2018 - The first study of its kind shows how detrimental nuclear attack would be for the aggressor ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613101950.htm)
89July 13, 2018 - The concentration of enterococci, bacteria that thrive in feces, has long been the federal standard for determining water quality. Researchers have now shown that the greatest influences on that ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180713135114.htm)
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93### [Warmer Climate Will Dramatically Increase the Volatility of Global Corn Crops](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180611152732.htm)
93July 13, 2018 - Researchers have calculated the capacity of North American forests to sequester carbon in a detailed analysis that for the first time integrates natural processes and climate changes that are likely ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180713093531.htm)
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95June 11, 2018 - Warmer temperatures by the end of this century will dramatically increase the volatility in global supplies of corn, the most widely grown crop in the ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180611152732.htm)
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99### [Consumer Food Choices Can Help Reduce Greenhouse Emissions Contributing to Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180608003211.htm)
97### [Mapping Species Range Shifts Under Recent Climatic Changes](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712100502.htm)
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101June 8, 2018 - Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions from the food system. A new study provides the latest and most comprehensive estimate of greenhouse gas emissions generated by ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180608003211.htm)
99July 12, 2018 - The inclusion of taxon-specific sensitivity to a shifting climate helps us understand species distributional responses to changes in ... [read more](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712100502.htm)
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