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Earth Overshoot Day 2017 is August 2, 2017!

Earth Overshoot Day http://www.overshootday.org/ Earth Overshoot Day Infographics (English, French, German and Italian) http://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/infographics/ Past Earth Overshoot Days ( 1971 - 2016 ) http://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-days/

Seismic Surveys: Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Airgun Blasting and Marine Life Disruption

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New!   Seismic survey of U. S. Arctic refuge coastal plain delayed (Yereth ROSEN, Reuters ; February 8, 2019) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-alaska-oil/seismic-surveys-of-u-s-arctic-refuge-coastal-plain-delayed-idUSKCN1PX27E Groups Sue Feds to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean (Press Release, EarthJustice ; December 11, 2018) https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2018/groups-sue-feds-to-stop-seismic-airgun-blasting-in-atlantic-ocean Infographic: Seismic Airgun Blasting (Haley JORDAN,  Clean Ocean Action ) http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/fileadmin/editor_group1/Issues/infographic_8.5x11_nobleed.pdf Maps : Animated Maps Show Dolphins and Whales Threatened by Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean  ( Oceana; August 26, 2016) http://usa.oceana.org/animated-maps-show-dolphins-and-whales-threatened-seismic-airgun-blasting-atlantic-ocean?_ga=2.5214131.106834651.1496758563-313031541.1496758563 OBIS SEAMAP:   Ocean Biogeograp...

Google, Aclima, Environmental Defense Fund, and UT Austin Announce Results of Breakthrough Study Mapping Hyperlocal Air Quality

Google, Aclima, Environmental Defense Fund, and UT Austin Announce Results of Breakthrough Study Mapping Hyperlocal Air Quality : Aclima’s unprecedented mobile sensing platform measured millions of data points about air pollution patterns that identified hot spots block-by-block Research Article: High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars:  Exploiting Big Data (APTE et al. , 2017) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891

U. N. World Environment Day 2017 and Citizen Science

World Environment Day 2017:  Connecting People to Nature ( Climate Action News ; June 1, 2017) http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/world-environment-day-2017-connecting-people-to-nature Celebrated Citizen Science Platform Developped in Arctic Expands its Success Southward [Press Release, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) ; June 1, 2017] http://www.cec.org/news-and-outreach/press-releases/celebrated-citizen-science-platform-developed-arctic-expands-its-success-southward Websites: World Environment Day 2017 http://www.worldenvironmentday.global/en/about/connecting-people-nature Citizen Science http://citizenscience.org/ Environment Live:  UNEP Live Citizen Science Portal http://www.uneplive.org/citizen