News: Earth & Climate — Environmental Policy

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+### [Bio Station Researchers Discuss Mine Risks to Salmon Rivers](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220701163304.htm)
+### [Risk of Death Rises as Climate Change Causes Nighttime Temperatures to Climb](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220808162116.htm)
+July 1, 2022 - Recently, a group of 23 science and policy experts from the U.S. and Canada published a review of mining risks to watersheds ranging from Montana to British Columbia and Alaska. The paper brought ...
+Aug. 8, 2022 - Mortality rates from excessively hot nights caused by climate change are predicted to increase up to 60 percent across three countries by the end of the century, according to a new international ...
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+### [How Climate Change Is Affecting Extreme Weather Events Around the World](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220628083247.htm)
+### [Extreme Heat Exposure Worsens Child Malnutrition](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220725125449.htm)
+June 28, 2022 - For a long time, climate scientists have struggled to link extreme weather events to climate change. This has changed. The science of weather event attribution is now beginning to show the true costs ...
+July 25, 2022 - Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries -- threatening to reverse decades of progress, new research ...
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+### [Natural Gas Used in Homes Contains Hazardous Air Pollutants](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220628083239.htm)
+### [Carbon Captured and Stored Since 1996 Is Significant but Overestimated by Up to 30 Per Cent](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220719091128.htm)
+June 28, 2022 - Every day, millions of Americans rely on natural gas to power appliances such as kitchen stoves, furnaces, and water heaters, but until now very little data existed on the chemical makeup of the gas ...
+July 19, 2022 - Although a significant amount of carbon has been caught and stored so far, governments should curb ...
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+### [Amazon Landscape Change Study Highlights Ecological Harms and Opportunities for Action](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220627165846.htm)
+### [Global Supply Chains Remain Resilient in the Wake of Natural Disasters](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220719091126.htm)
+June 27, 2022 - A major study into landscape changes in the Brazilian Amazon sheds new light on the many environmental threats the biome faces -- but also offers encouraging opportunities for ecological ...
+July 19, 2022 - While many U.S. policy makers are calling for reshoring and nearshoring to combat trade disruptions caused by COVID-19, new research suggests retrenchment of global supply chains is unlikely to ...
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+### [Global Food Supply-Chain Issues Call for Solutions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220627141448.htm)
+### [New Study Finds Environmental Injustice Is Key to Decoding Climate Change Debate](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220719091136.htm)
+June 27, 2022 - A new study sheds light on how trade, and centrality in the global wheat trade network, affect food security. The study shows that many countries depend on trade to fulfill their food needs. Further, ...
+July 19, 2022 - A new study found that Miami's history of environmental injustice was the key to understanding why different groups were often talking at cross-purposes, leading to misunderstandings and ...
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+### [Climate Damage Caused by Growing Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220626200208.htm)
+### [Biodiversity Survey Reveals That More Species Are Threatened With Extinction Than Previously Thought](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718142320.htm)
+June 26, 2022 - A formidable space tourism industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new ...
+July 18, 2022 - A new survey attempts to fill some of the gaps in understanding by synthesizing the perspectives of thousands of biodiversity experts worldwide. The survey received 3,331 responses from scientists ...
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+### [Built Infrastructure, Hunting and Climate Change Linked to Huge Migratory Bird Declines](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220624201515.htm)
+### [When Natural Disaster Strikes, These Americans May Not Be Ready](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718094529.htm)
+June 24, 2022 - New research shows how migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape in recent decades. A total of 103 species of migrating birds were studied, ...
+July 18, 2022 - A new national study shows which Americans are least likely to be prepared to take necessary actions when faced with disasters such as hurricanes, floods and ...
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+### [Arsenic in Private Well Water Contributes to Low Birth Weight Even at Low Levels](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220624160643.htm)
+### [Over Half of Threatened Species Require Targeted Recovery Actions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718094440.htm)
+June 24, 2022 - In the largest epidemiologic study of arsenic and birth outcomes to date, researchers estimated arsenic levels in U.S. private well water sources by county and compared estimates to documented birth ...
+July 18, 2022 - The world's governments are presently negotiating a Global Biodiversity Framework, containing goals and targets for saving nature, which is due to be adopted at the end of 2022. Conservation ...
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+### [Climate Change Negatively Impacting Bumble Bees](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220624092438.htm)
+### [Air Pollution Caused 2,780 Deaths, Illnesses, and IQ Loss in Children in Massachusetts in 2019](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718094453.htm)
+June 24, 2022 - Temperature changes have negatively impacted most species of bumble bees over the past 120 years, according to new new research. The researchers note that changes in temperature had more of a ...
+July 18, 2022 - Air pollution, climate change, and public health are closely linked, as a new study shows. The report details on a town-by-town basis the deaths and illnesses caused by air pollution in ...
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+### [Proactive Approaches Needed to Enable Ecosystems to Adapt to Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220623164311.htm)
+### [Consider Farmers at Individual Level When Controlling Livestock Disease Outbreaks](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220714145124.htm)
+June 23, 2022 - As the need to address climate change becomes increasingly urgent so too does the concurrent need for proactive stewardship of the Earth's rapidly changing biosphere, according to new ...
+July 14, 2022 - Livestock diseases will be better managed by incorporating the behaviors of individual farmers into national infection control policies, according to new ...
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+### [Coastal Marsh Migration May Further Fuel Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220623153710.htm)
+### [Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220714145012.htm)
+June 23, 2022 - As rising sea levels cause marshes to move inland in six mid-Atlantic states, coastal habitats will not serve as a carbon sink but instead will release more carbon into the atmosphere, a new modeling ...
+July 14, 2022 - The world's coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever. New research gives scientists a way to unravel the causes of glacial retreat, and in turn, reveal how much can be attributed to ...
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+### [Climate Changes Lead to Water Imbalance, Conflict in Tibetan Plateau](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220623140114.htm)
+### [Framework for Prioritizing Investment in Drinking Water Systems](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220713152842.htm)
+June 23, 2022 - Climate change is putting an enormous strain on global water resources, and according to researchers, the Tibetan Plateau is suffering from a water imbalance so extreme that it could lead to an ...
+July 13, 2022 - Researchers have published a study that aims to assist state and local water authorities in making decisions about where to prioritize funding for infrastructure improvements on drinking water lead ...
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+### [Can Robotics Help Us Achieve Sustainable Development?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220622113145.htm)
+### [Study Confirms Lead-in-Water Causes Adverse Fetal Health Outcomes](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220713114629.htm)
+June 23, 2022 - Scientists have assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their findings identify key opportunities and key ...
+July 13, 2022 - Health economics researchers have confirmed a causal relationship between lead-in-water and adverse fetal health outcomes. Although many studies have found a correlation between lead exposure and ...
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+### [Modern Wind Turbines Can More Than Compensate for Decline in Global Wind Resource](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220621155118.htm)
+### [Research Links National-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Warming and Resulting Economic Damage](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220712141358.htm)
+June 21, 2022 - Wind energy contributes significantly to the energy sector's sustainable, low-CO2 transformation. However, the efficiency of wind turbines depends on available wind resources and the technical ...
+July 12, 2022 - Study provides data on gains and losses attributable to individual countries, including the finding that a group from the world's leading national emitters of GHGs have caused $6 trillion in ...
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+### [Agriculture Emissions Pose Risks to Health and Climate](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220621091415.htm)
+### [Soil Quality Critical to Help Some U.S. Crops Weather Heat Stress from Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220712141326.htm)
+June 21, 2022 - Environmental engineers determine the economic cost of reactive nitrogen emissions from agriculture, and their significant risks to populations through air pollution and climate ...
+July 12, 2022 - The results singled out growing-degree days as the most important climatic factor and water holding capacity as the most influential soil property for crop-yield ...
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+### [Melting Arctic Ice Could Transform International Shipping Routes, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220620152119.htm)
+### [Plankton Will Store More Carbon as Earth's Climate Warms, but Storage Beyond the End of the Century Is Uncertain](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220711163147.htm)
+June 20, 2022 - Melting ice in the Arctic Ocean could yield new trade routes in international waters, reducing the shipping industry's carbon footprint and weakening Russia's control over trade routes ...
+July 11, 2022 - The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict ...
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+### [Science Coverage of Climate Change Can Change Minds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220620152117.htm)
+### [Carbon Conservation Efforts Would Be Enhanced by Highlighting Threatened Forest Primates](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707171857.htm)
+June 20, 2022 - Science reporting on climate change does lead Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs and support government action on the issue -- but these gains are fragile, a new study ...
+July 7, 2022 - Efforts to conserve the carbon stored in tropical forests would be enhanced by linking the work to the charismatic, threatened primates that live there, researchers say in a new ...
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+### [Fifth of Global Food-Related Emissions Due to Transport](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220620122334.htm)
+### [New Research Finds Deep-Sea Mining Noise Pollution Will Stretch Hundreds of Miles](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707142140.htm)
+June 20, 2022 - Food transport constitutes 19 percent of food emissions, equivalent to 6 percent of emissions from all sources. High-income countries are responsible for nearly half of these emissions, leading ...
+July 7, 2022 - New research examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, which could affect the understudied species that live in the deep sea -- the largest habitat on ...
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+### [Mangrove and Reef Restoration Yield Positive Returns on Investment for Flood Protection, Study Shows](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220617122305.htm)
+### [Electric Vehicle Buyers Want Rebates, Not Tax Credits](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707141902.htm)
+June 17, 2022 - Restoration of mangroves and coral reefs can be a cost-effective solution for coastal flood reduction in more than 20 countries across the Caribbean. Researchers used methods from the risk and ...
+July 7, 2022 - Financial incentives play an important role in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. New research, however, finds that not all financial incentives are created equal in the eyes of ...
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+### [Biogas and Biomethane Supply Chains Leak Twice as Much Methane as First Thought](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220617111456.htm)
+### [Experts Predict Top Emerging Impacts on Ocean Biodiversity Over Next Decade](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707141852.htm)
+June 17, 2022 - A new analysis has found that biogas and biomethane, while more climate friendly, leak more than twice as much methane as previously ...
+July 7, 2022 - Lithium extraction from the deep sea, overfishing of deeper-water species, and the unexpected ocean impacts of wildfires on land are among fifteen issues experts warn we ought to be addressing ...
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