This Week in Environment News: 12 Stories You Need to See
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy environment industry press releases from PR Newswire, including humans' exposure to climate change-attributed heat in July.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the environment industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
More than 80% of humanity exposed to climate change-attributed heat in July 2023: Report "Human-caused climate change influenced July temperatures for the vast majority of humanity," Dr. Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at Climate Central said. "Across the entire planet, the average person was exposed to 11 days in which carbon pollution made the local temperature at least three times more likely. Virtually no place on Earth escaped the influence of climate change last month."
Republic Services and Ravago Partnering to Advance Sustainable Packaging Solutions The creation of Blue Polymers, LLC is another step forward in enabling greater plastics circularity. Blue Polymers is developing a network of facilities designed to produce 100% post-consumer recycled products to supply plastic manufacturers' growing demand for sustainable solutions.
Tour de Turtles Celebrates Sea Turtles, Supernatural and Science at Disney's Vero Beach Resort Tour de Turtles brings together a team of researchers from the Sea Turtle Conservancy and Disney Conservation annually to undertake a daunting mission - using satellite telemetry to track two female turtles to determine where and how far they swim during the migration season. Each turtle swims to raise awareness about various threats to sea turtle survival. The turtle to swim the furthest distance will win the Tour de Turtles race.
Jacobs Receives $450 Million US Environmental Protection Agency Contract The work streamlines and accelerates both Superfund and Great Lakes Legacy Act (GLLA) environmental cleanups providing contaminated sediment evaluations, site management, remedial investigations, feasibility studies, remedial design activities, habitat restoration design and evaluation support, and remediation oversight for the lakes and surrounding infrastructure.
ScottsMiracle-Gro and HGTV's John Gidding Unveil Water-Conscious 'Greenprints' As part of its #ThinkWaterPositive initiative, the ScottsMiracle-Gro Company announced Greenprints, a program to educate and inspire homeowners to explore water-positive possibilities through xeriscaping with drought-tolerant and native plants.
In addition to these popular releases, several must-read earnings reports crossed the wire this week, including the quarterly results for Republic Services and Air Products.
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In August 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the resolution "International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024-2033" (Sciences Decade). This resolution offers a distinctive...
"Currently, the world economy is gradually recovering and the energy industry is accelerating its green and low-carbon transition. Developing nuclear energy has become a broad consensus of the world," said Yu Jianfeng, chairman of the China National...
The WCS Run for the Wild, sponsored by Montefiore Einstein, marking the official start of spring/summer in New York City, returned to the Bronx Zoo today for the 16th year. More than 80,000 runners and walkers have traversed through the park for this...
Summit Energy, one of the Northeast region's premier solar installers, is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Interfaith Social Services 50th anniversary of its annual "Stop the Stigma" 5K held today, April 27 at the Kennedy Center in North...
International Battery Metals Ltd. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed a non-brokered private placement financing of up to 14,338,494 units (each a "Unit") issued at a price of CAD$0.784 per Unit for gross proceeds of USD...
GBLT Corp. ("GBLT" or the "Company") announces that minority shareholders have approved the voluntary delisting (the "Delisting") of the common shares of the Company from the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV"). Approval for the delisting was received at...