BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- Oxfam America issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease, and displacement. Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive, and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry, depleted or polluted reservoirs. Today, during World Wat  more

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, Aug. 25 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that it has been named a finalist for two awards at The Energy Awards 2023. Ameresco's Executive Vice President Michael Bakas has been named a finalist for Energy Champion of the Year and  more

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 25 -- The Asian Development Bank issued the following news release: The Southeast Asian region could lose up to 30% of its gross domestic product by 2050 due to increases in global temperature and extreme weather events, but bolstering the region's renewable energy manufacturing capacity would position Southeast Asian countries to create new jobs and meet growing energy demand while drastically reducing emissions, according to new research released today on the sideline  more

NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release: India's transition to a net-zero economy by 2050 presents an investment opportunity that amounts to at least $12.7 trillion, according to the New Energy Outlook: India report, published today by research company BloombergNEF. The report details two scenarios for India's energy system and the implications of the country's transition opportunities and challenges. The base case Economic Tran  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 24 -- The Baltimore Museum of Art issued the following news release: In 1935, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) began offering employment to millions of workers affected by the Great Depression, including a wide array of artists from across the country. Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA, opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) on November 5, offers new insights into the vast contributions of women printmakers, who gave visual f  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release: Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa's most important sources of electricity, is expected to rapidly lose out in importance in favour of solar power in the coming years. The attractiveness of new hydropower stations is declining, due to increasing economic competition from solar panels and ongoing uncertainty over the effects of climate change on river flows. The majority of planned news  more

CENTER, North Dakota, Aug. 24 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today met with BNI Coal General Manager Mike Heger and Minnkota Power Cooperative CEO Mac McLennan to discuss and tour the operations of BNI's new coal lease area at the Center Mine. The operations are able to move forward due to Hoeven's efforts to secure needed regulatory approval, which prevented $35 million in costs from being imposed on homeowners and b  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Jose Figueroa, senior management and technical advisor for the Technology Development Center at NETL, is helping facilitate new efforts in greenhouse gas reduction by coordinating a methane emissions reduction program that supports the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Investment Reduction Act statutory requirements of the Methane Emissions Reduction Progra  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 24 -- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians that says it covers developments in occupational and environmental health, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2023 edition (Vol. 80, Issue 8): Original research: - Workplace * Historical shift in pathological type of progressive massive fibrosis among coal miners in the USA * Length of employm  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news release: As part of the Biden-Harris administration's efforts to clean up legacy pollution, protect the environment, and revitalize the economy of coal communities, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) has awarded $100,000 in a cooperative agreement for a watershed restoration project in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. OSMRE's Watershe  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: This summer, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) -- an international initiative that credibly verifies corporations' emissions reduction targets -- led several stakeholder engagement processes to clarify and tighten the standards for financial institutions seeking to set science-based targets. The SBTi also sought comment on its draft Fossil Fuel Finance Position Paper establishing specific norms   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 24 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Robert Weiss examines the impact of coastal hazards in the geologic past, today and in the future. His work analyzes how climate change and sea-level rise could change the nature and impacts of coastal hazards in coming years. He develops computer models and uses data analytics to translate the geologic record of coastal hazards into insights that improve the understanding of coastal hazards today. Weiss is a professor of  more