Courtesy of Penn State News By Hannah Lane Laura Davis had dreamed of traveling to Africa for years. So in May 2012, she jumped at the chance to embark on a journey to South Africa and Mozambique offered through a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences natural resources embedded course. The trip was a life-changing experience. [...]

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Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University ASU researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level. In a new BreakThrough Science video posted on the American [...]

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Courtesy of American Friends of Tel Aviv University TAU team uses NASA satellites to measure pollution hovering over world’s megacities The thickest layers of global smog — caused by traffic, industry, and natural minerals, among other factors — are found over the world’s megacities. But getting an accurate measurement of pollution is no easy task. [...]

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Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Sarah Yang Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley researchers have stepped into this debate with a new study that says diesel exhaust contributes 15 times more than gas emissions per liter of [...]

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The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has yet to reveal itself, say researchers in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The largest-ever accidental release of oil into marine waters could impact earth’s ecosystems for years to come — and not just along the 650 miles of the northern Gulf [...]

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When you think of the trash problem in the ocean – the great garbage patch in the Pacific – what do you imagine? Like myself, I’m sure you envisioned something like the ocean’s surface covered with plastic coke bottles and six-pack rings. Unfortunately, the reality of this situation is far more complex. Plastic doesn’t particularly [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia Plastic pollution off the northwest coast of North America is reaching the level of the notoriously polluted North Sea, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, examined stomach contents of [...]

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From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 50-Year Model Suggests Regional Pollution Obscured a Global Trend Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States—that is, a cold patch where the [...]

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Looking for a young, motivated person for an environmental PhD fellowship at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. The 3-year fellowship (14,000 Euros/year approx.) will focus on analyzing the effectiveness and equity implications of carbon and biodiversity offsets in Mexico, informed by qualitatitive and quantitative methods. Gary Martin [...]

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