Natural gas production has been booming in southwestern Pennsylvania, but it may also yield multiple health complaints, especially for residents surrounded by oil and gas facilities.
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Using Dirt to Clean Up Construction
The construction industry is one of the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide. Whether it can reduce those emissions depends on replacing its most common building material.
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Environmental Impact Bonds Incentivize Watershed Restoration
Environmental Impact Bonds for financing new water and environmental infrastructure can be properly priced with the help of watershed modelling.
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Understanding Earthquakes Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing
A better understanding of how earthquakes are caused by hydraulic fracturing is an important part of building better practices to manage and mitigate their risks.
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To Protect the World’s Sand, We Need to Know How to Measure It
New research provides a more accurate model that coastal managers and engineers can use to account for sand transport over time.
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How Financial Markets Can Grow More Climate Savvy
Take extreme weather risks into account, and markets could prove hardier in a changing world.
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Thirty Years, $500 Million, and a Scientific Mission in the Gulf
Gulf Research Program executive director Lauren Alexander Augustine discusses the impact science can have on communities when given money and time.
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Quantifying Aerosol Effects on Climate Using Ship Track Clouds
A new methodology for measuring how human emissions influence cloud properties and radiative forcing developed by reconstructing cloud fields in maritime shipping lanes.
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Profits for the Planet
Entrepreneurs are addressing global challenges with science-based—and financially sustainable—solutions.
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First U.S. Airline Goes Carbon Neutral
JetBlue will buy carbon offsets for all domestic flights starting in July, but are carbon offsets enough to clean up a dirty industry?