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The 2019 College of Agriculture, Food & Environment RoundUp week ended with music, food and fun on Saturday afternoon.
HYPREP’s technical personnel take borehole water samples.
In June 2019, UN Environment organized a technical training to build the technical capacity of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and its technical personnel. From 11 to 21 June 2019, 21 members of HYPREP’s technical personnel received training on the management and assessment of contaminated land. The training included twelve theory modules followed by two days of field-based exercises and site visits to a soil treatment plant and a remediation site.
In 2018, the United Nations Environment Programme began a project to assist HYPREP to manage the clean-up of oil contamination in Ogoniland. Designed in response to a request from the Government, this project comes as an integral part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s continuing support to the Government of Nigeria to clean up the environmental contamination in Nigeria and achieve lasting peace in the region.
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A street performance on what we could be heading for. There's a good crowd of onlookers, on a pleasant Saturday
Pierre Fitter, an award-winning Indian TV journalist, shoots footage of the Leh Valley in Ladakh, India
About 40 employees from HR, CSO and Sales Support, IBM Thailand, contributed their time to assemble artificial coral reefs which would be placed under sea water around Thai Gulf coast. This is to promote coastal zone environment of the gulf, one of the world's richest coastal ecological systems.
The lakes are supposed to be a little clearer in Maine. These data buoys help keep an eye on lakes across the state, where small shifts in water quality can be a big deal.
Famous for its clarity, Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park is getting a little cloudier. A data buoy is helping scientists and managers find out why.
Read the full story: www.fondriest.com/news/data-buoy-acadia-national-parks-jo...
Photo courtesy of Nora Theodore / University of Maine
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
Mark Hurst Transport Services manager Gedling Borough Council & Cllr Jenny Hollingsworth, Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing.
Tony told: saving water starts with protecting forests and rivers
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Local Mitcham district residents today take their request that the state government ramp up action to protect Melbourne’s water supply to the office of their local member of parliament, Tony Robinson.
“We’ve all been by taking shorter showers, installing tanks, using a bucket to wash the car, but the Brumby state government is not taking the most important water saving actions”, said local resident Brigid Walsh.
“Instead of building expensive and polluting desalination plants and pipelines, they should be protecting our forests and rivers - the source of Melbourne’s good, clean water.”
For ten years the state government has failed to prioritise protecting Melbourne’s water supply. Woodchipping is still allowed in Melbourne’s water catchments, reducing the inflows to dams by 50 per cent. And Victoria’s rivers are dying, because far too much water is still taken out of them: most rivers have less than 10 per cent of their average annual flow.
We’ve got a plan to Rescue Our Rivers. It’s not yet too late. But this dual election year, our rivers really, really need to get a drink.
Hop here for more info on the campaign: www.environmentvictoria.org.au/rescueourrivers
UN Environment hosted the 2018 Champions of the Earth Awards in New York City on September 26, 2018. (C) UN Environment / Russ Rowland and Andi Schreiber
A joint meeting of NJBIA's Environment and Energy Policy Committees delved into the details of the new Energy Master Plan and Gov. Phil Murphy's Executive Order No. 100.
Brown University Plant Environment Center (aka the Greenhouse) on Waterman Street.
College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island.
Almost two years since the completion of the remediation and environmental restoration works at the rear of Balmoral Oval.
www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/news/2012/04/05/bringing-biodiversi...
Washington DC, June 23, 2018. Thousands of people from all over America gathered on the Mall for a Rally and March to The Capitol. Lead by Reverend Barber, The Poor People's Campaign Moral Revival echoes the Poor People's Campaign of the '60's lead by Dr. Martin Luther King. The movement grew out of Barber's Moral Monday Marches in North Carolina. It's a big tent movement taking on many human rights and justice issues: poverty, health care, voter suppression, the environment, racism, living wage, labor unions, immigration, mass incarceration, militarism. Like the original Poor People's Campaign it doesn't seem to get the interest and media coverage it deserves. Looking at my newspaper this morning I didn't see anything about it.
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Title: Climatic atlas of the United States.
Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1983.
Subjects: United States --Climate --Maps.
Location: Babbidge Map Library Double Oversize-NonCirculating-Level 4
Call Number: G1201.C8 U55 1983
Groundbreaking for Morgan's newest academic facility, the Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies building.
There was song, dance, history and some mystery as mum and I explored Tantallon Castle. We hardly pause as we walk, talk and somewhat squawk our way around a magnificent ruin such as this. As mentioned in the description accompanying the pictures of the Outer Ward taken on the same day Tantallon gives beautiful aspects and vantages today that were originally designed for defence and attack. The military levels and architecture provide excellent sites for pictures. Here are 50 images recording a little something of our adventures
My mum Irene enjoys surveying the monuments we visit and talking to every person that we encounter. She is a particular fan of information boards and of finding a tea room in which to contemplate the guide book. Tantallon Castle is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland, do check for visiting times.
Tantallon Castle
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/tantall...
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A joint meeting of NJBIA's Environment and Energy Policy Committees delved into the details of the new Energy Master Plan and Gov. Phil Murphy's Executive Order No. 100.
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent criticality) continued to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.
In a second area of concern, Fairewinds disagrees the NRC's latest report claiming that all Fukushima spent fuel pools had no problems following the earthquake. In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than 1 mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors. If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves. Such a failure of the containment system certainly necessitates a complete review of all US reactor containment design and industry assurances that containments will hold in radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. The evidence Fairewinds reviewed to date continues to support its April analysis that the detonation in the Unit 3 Spent Fuel pool was the cause of plutonium found off site.
Third, the burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.
And finally, the Japanese government has yet to grasp the severity of the contamination within Japan, and therefore has not developed a coherent plan mitigate the accident and remediate the environment. Without a cohesive plan to deal with this ongoing problem of large scale radioactive contamination, the radioactivity will continue to spread throughout Japan and around the globe further exacerbating the problem and raising costs astronomically.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Fairewinds Associates.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
For the past few years, TREES has helped schools plant trees in their fields and communities during World Environment Day.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
National Environment Week launched on 29 May 2018 and will conclude on June 5. It began with a high-level policy conference on strategies and mechanisms to address plastic pollution. The conference attracted participants from government institutions, international organisations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and the media.
The conference included discussions on managing plastic waste in Rwanda in line with this year’s World Environment Day theme: Beat Plastic Pollution. Participants shared ideas on strategy and policy solutions to combat the use of plastics and the business opportunities in the reduction, reuse and recycling of plastics.
Other activities during National Environment Week include a countywide inspection of the illegal use of plastic bags, community work ‘Umuganda’, a Beat Plastic Pollution Walk in Kigali during Car Free Day on 3 June 2018, a Green Drinks Kigali discussion on plastic management, and an exhibition on plastic recycling, among others.