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How kelp forests persisted through the large 2014-2016 Pacific marine heatwave

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

New research reveals that denser, and more sheltered, kelp forests can withstand serious stressors amid warming ocean temperatures.

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Global e-waste emissions jump 53 percent between 2014 and 2020

Environmental News Bits

E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020. Researchers anticipate e-waste will annually generate 852 million metric tons of CO2 compounds … Continue reading Global e-waste emissions jump 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

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For Burlington, Vermont, going 100 percent renewable was just the start

GreenBiz

In 2014, Vermont’s largest city became the first in the U.S. to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy. What’s happened since then?

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SDSN Korea Hosts Green Korea 2014 Forum

Sustainable Development Network

On December 4-5, 2014, the SDSN Korea network hosted the UN SDSN Korea-Green Korea 2014 Forum in Incheon, Korea. The forum convened senior leaders in academia, government, and private sector to discuss the theme of “Setting Korea’s Targets under the UN Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”

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Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.

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Pacific Mammal Research Uses Grants To Study Marine Mammals of the Salish Sea

3BL Media

Cindy Elliser, PhD, founded Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) in 2014, focusing on studying harbor porpoises and harbor seals to support their conservation in the Salish Sea. Dr. Elliser founded PacMam in 2014. I have always been drawn to them since before I can remember and have been conducting research now for almost 25 years.”

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Alberta - Alberta hits methane reduction target three years early

Global Renewable News

Alberta has now reduced methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 45 per cent since 2014.Alberta Alberta was the first province in Canada to set a methane emissions target for t.

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