An
environmental scientist is a person who studies the environment and works to protect and understand nature, animals, plants, and the impact of human activities on the Earth.
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This week 2,500 of the world's
leading environmental scientists warned politicians of the drastic global warming which will result if governments fail to reduce greenhouse gases.
While
many environmental scientists support the notion of sharing, the vast majority of them do not carry out their good intentions, according to a recent survey.
Environmental Scientists test samples to determine the effects of hazards on air, water and soil, and research ways to reduce risks and damage to the environment.
But
as environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel argues in his landmark paper, «The Liberation of the Environment,» human beings have been committing sins against the environment for thousands of years.
They include a set of four graphics that depict the state of Earth's changing climate, an interesting list
of environmental scientists who are engaged in intriguing research, and the premier of a documentary hosted by our own David Biello that considers whether the U.S. could run entirely on electricity.
A study carried out
by environmental scientists from the University of Basel has now shown that although the research community considers this to be a proven theory, no studies have been published to confirm it.
The other expert consulted was Paul Lo, president and senior
environmental scientist for Materials Management Group, the company that worked with the districts to design the testing plan.
Kristiina Karhu of the University of Helsinki and many
environmental scientists from universities stretching from Exeter to the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia on to the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru in Lima and The Australian National University in Canberra in Australia measured and extracted the soil samples» carbon.
Paul Lo, president and
senior environmental scientist of Materials Management Group, emailed administrators at the Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board to lay out a few different scenarios.
At CIRES, a partnership of NOAA and CU Boulder, hundreds of
environmental scientists work to understand the dynamic Earth system, including people's relationship with the planet.
UN's
top environmental scientist warns bottles and bags do not break down easily and sink, as report highlights the ubiquity of plastic debris in oceans
Green traditionalists are well - represented
among environmental scientists, and they publish high - profile papers warning «that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth» to an irreversible tipping point.
As world leaders meet this week and next at a historic climate change summit in Paris, a new study by Michigan State
University environmental scientists suggests opponents of climate change appear to be winning the war of words.
Most
environmental scientist positions are concentrated in government, universities, and national research facilities, but businesses are expected to utilize them more and more to develop practices to minimize their impact on the environment.
An international team of ecologists and
environmental scientists found that bird and mammal populations were reduced within 7 and 40 km of hunters» access points, such as roads and settlements.
During the early 2000s,
environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.
Report and grant writing is often a requirement, and
most Environmental Scientists work for state governments, though they can also be found in local governments, consulting services, and engineering firms.
Dr Stewart Owen,
Principal Environmental Scientist at AstraZeneca, added: «We are working to develop sustainable tools to help us better understand the impact of pollutants; and we must do this using the best science available.
«Methane concentrations in drinking water were much higher if the homeowner was near an active gas well,» explains
environmental scientist Robert Jackson of Duke University, who led the study published online May 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Training programs that bring together climate and
other environmental scientists across the physical, natural, and social sciences «are popping up all over,» Weiler says.
«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by
environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.
The nongovernmental System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) program works in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific to
help environmental scientists build interdisciplinary and translational research skills through fellowships, workshops, and training institutes.
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If environmental scientists truly espouse the ethical value of inclusivity, including diverse groups of people at the tables of research, decision making, policy and public debate, it is not only necessary to share scientific data, it is ethically obligatory,» Elliott said.
University of California at
Davis environmental scientist and co-author of the study, Ben Houlton, says that «This runs counter the centuries - long paradigm that has laid the foundation for the environmental sciences.»
Here, the Pocahontas is Olga Kurylenko, a single mom who falls in love with
environmental scientist Ben Affleck in Paris, and then moves to Oklahoma with her daughter to live with him.
Dr. Mark Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of Stanford's Atmosphere / Energy program, announced on February 22 that he will drop the defamation suit he brought in D.C. Superior Court against fellow
environmental scientist Dr. Christopher Clack and the National Academy of Sciences.