POTSDAM, Germany, Nov. 25 -- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research issued the following news release: In the past two weeks, around 40,000 people from all over the world took part in the UN climate summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Key topics were the strengthening of global climate action, particularly with regard to the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, a new collective financing target to support developing countries in overcoming the climate crisis, and trusted and transpare  more

BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 25 -- Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, a peer-reviewed journal that addresses topics such as acid precipitation, air quality monitoring and management, air pollution climatology, atmospheric impact assessment, forest-fire emissions, greenhouse gases, health and ecological effects and clean air technology, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 special issue (Vol. 17, Issue 10) entitled HARMO21 - Harmonisation Within Atmospheric Dispersion  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 26 -- Imperial College-London issued the following news on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * Rich countries will ramp up their contributions to help poor countries deal with climate change to $300 billion by 2035, COP29 agreed on Sunday. * * * By Sam Ezra Fraser-Baxter The agreement was announced at 3.00am Azerbaijan time (11pm UK), after stop-start negotiations ran more than 35 hours overtime at the two-week climate change conference. Dubbed the 'finance COP,' the focus of COP29   more

MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 26 -- The Institute of Public Affairs issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: "The latest warnings of potential blackouts across the National Energy Market prove yet again that you cannot run a nation on net zero. Net zero has led to a rapid, ideologically driven, decommissioning of baseload power generation which has fundamentally undermined Australia's energy security," said Saxon Davidson, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In fall 2020, California-based Kairos Power announced plans to build an advanced nuclear demonstration reactor within the site of the former K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge. It was a good location for the company. The decommissioned K-25, now named Heritage Center Industrial Park, came with impressive infrastructure, including ample electricity from the T  more

SHIPPENSBURG, Pennsylvania, Nov. 26 (TNSres) -- Shippensburg University issued the following news: By Emma Durnin Allen Dieterich-Ward, director of The Graduate School at Shippensburg University, professor of history and accomplished environmental historian, has released a new book, "Cradle of Conservation: An Environmental History of Pennsylvania." This publication examines the state's relationship with its natural resources, highlighting its impact from the Industrial Revolution to sustainab  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Nov. 25 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-- Clean energy advocates urged the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on Friday to deny or modify two pending draft air permits for Duke Energy's proposed Roxboro and Marshall gas-fired power plants, which would harm the health of neighboring communities and double down on climate-warming pollution. The Southern Environmental Law Center, Southern Allia  more