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Athens EPA Employees Mark Earth Day Week by an East-side Area Cleanup
EPA’s Athens-based employees together with Keep Athens Clarke County Beautiful (KACCB) will mark Earth Week by cleaning up the Firewood Street neighborhood and WOW playground area. WHAT: Eastside cleanup to mark 44th observance of Earth Day WHO: U.S. EPA employees in Athens WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 2014 1 – 5 PM WHERE: Firewood Street Neighborhood and WOW playground area Whit ...
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Training courses in connection with the World Water Week in Stockholm
The global water crisis is reshaped periodically by changes in climate, geopolitics, demography and economics, amongst others. At Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) we recognise the importance of staying up to date with these changes, and work provocatively to reduce and prevent the negative impacts of development on social, economic and ecological systems. This year, SIWI and ...
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Kakadu still battling South American invader
In a paper recently published in Nature, an international group of scientists led by CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences’ Dr Shon Schooler explained how this unpredictability could lead to a strategy for ongoing control of the weed. A native of South America, the aquatic plant Salvinia molesta is one of the most widespread and environmentally and economically destructive invasive plants because it ...
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Thermal treatment: Domestic waste
Michaelis helps to protect the sensitive ecological system of the Maldives. On the uninhabited island of Vandhoo in the Raa Atoll, Michaelis has installed a modern domestic waste treatment plant. Household waste from surrounding islands and resorts is collected by special ships and brought to Vandhoo. There the household waste is separated and processed. The combustible part is converted into ...
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Business solutions based on scientific analysis
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) today announced an innovative collaboration to ensure future business solutions are based on the best scientific analysis. The collaboration signals, for the first time, that the WBCSD has committed to integrating scientific analysis and resilience ...
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EPA Awards $800,000 to Michigan State University to Research Effects of Chemical Exposure on Ecosystems
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an $800,000 grant to Michigan State University to study the ecological impacts of manufactured chemicals. This STAR (Science to Achieve Results) grant is part of EPA’s Chemical Safety for Sustainability research program to develop new methods to improve chemical evaluation and support environmental sustainability. Michigan ...
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Blavity: Combatting the Legacy of Environmental Racism in Haiti
Far too often discussions about environmental degradation and the global climate crisis miss the mark when it comes to the legacy of colonialism and racism. Though Haiti’s geographical location and topological features certainly increase the nation’s physical vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, the degree of environmental degradation and environmental vulnerability in ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Integrating social and ecological science for effective coral reef conservation
While many conservation plans focus on only environmental indicators for success, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)'s coral reef program is trying a relatively new approach: focusing on both social and ecological processes and outcomes to ensure a long-term future for coral reef systems, according to a newly published study. In the new study, scientists from WCS and James Cook ...
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RSF social finance launches food & agriculture PRI fund
RSF Social Finance (RSF) is proud to announce the official launch of its Food & Agriculture Program‐Related Investing (PRI) Fund. RSF"s PRI Fund aims to increase the flow of funding to social enterprises in local and sustainable food and agriculture by unlocking a new source of patient capital for this important sector. Program‐Related Investing is a tool that allows foundations ...
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Polluting China for the sake of economic growth
China’s economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future with emissions and efficiency far below capital growth on the agenda, according to a study published in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues. Economist Yanqing Xia of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and the Northeast Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
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EPA to Evaluate 22 Previously Cleaned Superfund Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will conduct five-year reviews at 22 sites to ensure that cleanup of each site continues to protect public health and the environment. The reviews also identify any deficiencies and present recommendations to address them. In conducting the five-year review, EPA will interview local citizens, and review site operations, maintenance and monitoring ...
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Homegrown solutions `crucial to sustainable development`
Nurturing local innovations and technologies — and empowering the creativity of local people — could play a far greater role in helping the world achieve sustainable development, a forum has heard. There is a pressing need to shift from the dominant top-down approach to technology transfer, Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS centre, told the Fair Ideas event, hosted by the ...
By SciDev.Net
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IoT integration with maintenance system: Siveco China and Schaeffler join forces to release Industry 4.0 solutions
Siveco China and Schaeffler's Industry 4.0 team established a partnership in China in early 2020. At the time, Siveco China hoped to expand its Smart O&M ecological system to help clients optimize the lifecycle of their assets and ensure regulatory compliance using IT. Schaeffler, on the other hand, was actively shaping digital transformation and the connection of components and systems to ...
By Siveco China
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Study testing skeptics’ critiques reconfirms basic climate science
Climate skeptics have denounced studies of temperature rise because of alleged biases in data sets. So in an effort to get to the bottom of these critiques, a group of scientists launched the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study, using different methods with skeptics’ arguments in mind. Its findings are in, and they confirm that not only is the Earth’s land temperature warming, ...
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EPA releases 2008 Report on the Environment Highlights
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its 2008 Report on the Environment Highlights, a valuable resource citizens can use to easily understand broad trends in the condition of the air, water, and land and related changes in human health and the environment in the United States. In the Pacific Southwest, state-wide measures have in many cases shown improvement, but these changes ...
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America recycles day - Beyond bottles to buildings
America Recycles Day is November 15, 2009. Recycling is a way that every American can help to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. By recycling at home and at work, you can help to reduce carbon emissions associated with extracting natural resources, manufacturing new products and waste disposal. While what we traditionally think of as recycling - cans, bottles, paper - are ...
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New IUCN resolution urges stronger climate change mitigation
More than 98 percent of IUCN NGO members and 70 percent of state members voted in favour of a new climate change mitigation resolution. The resolution targets more specific goals and actions on biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods protection. Addressing Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the call emphasizes the need for recognizing the role that ...
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EPA Awards $400K to University of North Carolina Wilmington for Chemical Exposure Research in Estuaries and Marine Ecosystems
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced almost $4 million in funding to six universities to study the ecological impacts of manufactured chemicals, leading to better chemical risk assessments and decisions for protecting the environment. Among those, the University of North Carolina Wilmington was selected to receive $399,884 for research to develop an estuarine and marine ...
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Silver Nanoparticles May Fight Bacteria Used to Treat Wastewater
COLUMBIA, Missouri (ENS) – Many everyday consumer items now utilize the emerging science of nanotechnology in the form of silver nanoparticles that are incorporated into items such as bandages, clothing, cosmetics, car wax, and toys. Silver nonparticles can destroy bacteria, but while that is a good characteristic for someone who needs to bandage a cut, it might not be so valuable to wastewater ...
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Online monitoring of algae concentration with ALGcontrol
The presence of algae in surface waters is a potential threat to the quality and ecology of the water system. The control and monitoring of the algae concentrations are therefore of high importance. Due to green algae problems in the water reservoir of a drinking water treatment plant, the ALGcontrol was installed to continuously monitor the algae concentrations and possible toxic blue green ...
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