Sentences with phrase «update national academy of science»

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As part of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, Congress directed the USDA to review and update CACFP nutrition standards to align more closely with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs).2 In early 2015, based on science - based recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine), the USDA proposed several adjustments to CACFP standards to better meet children's nutritional needs without increasing costs.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and SwiAcademies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and SwitzScience Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzscience academies in the European Union, Norway, and Swiacademies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

He is a lead author of Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus (Columbia University Press, 2015) and of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2017 Climate Science Special Report, a member of the National Academies» Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon, and a contributing author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2014 Fifth Assessment Report.

The UK Royal Society and US National Academies of Science produced a joint Q&A on climate change in 2014, and an update in 2017.