Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfield. The report also warned there were significant obstacles to the adoption of more sustainable practices.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

Getting a finished product from the factory to your door, has costs beyond the price tag. The pandemic reinforced the fact that the risks of air pollution are real and personal, and that our health and our ability to fight respiratory diseases like COVID-19, depends on clean air.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Workers are subject to physical and sexual abuse, and disease is rife in unsanitary workers’ housing. years of carbon footprint and a price tag of nearly $40,000. Related: These diamonds from outer space hint at a long-lost planet Nor are conditions good for workers. In some African countries, miners make as little as a dollar a day.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

More than heart disease, nearly twice as much as cancer! They’ve eliminated the stigma of “going to the therapist” and they’ve lowered the price tag, considerably improving access, particularly for low and middle income communities. Together, these companies comprise the “First Wave” of modern behavioral health innovators.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. But most physicians have not been trained to make the connection between disease and a changing environment — or to prepare patients for the fact that what made them sick may soon get worse.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Studies show PFAS can weaken immune systems and contribute to long-term illnesses like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer — specifically, testicular, kidney, and prostate cancers. Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 billion per year.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Despite warnings about “food-wars” caused by global famine and disease, human biomass on Earth has quite literally exploded. The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. At the moment however, a lab-grown hamburger costs only about 9 euros (!).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2020

and as initial studies suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution may lead to higher death rates from the disease — a new report finds that nearly five in 10 Americans are breathing polluted air. Tags: air pollution American Lung Association clean air act Trump Administration institute for energy research

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2020

Tags: coal Black Lung national mining association coronavirus

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the caribou, which provide essential food and cultural resources for many Alaska Native communities, are facing multiple threats: A slew of climate-related impacts have hampered their grazing, wildfires have burned the forage they rely on, warmer winters may have increased disease , and thawing permafrost has disrupted their migrations.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The decline of the West Coast’s kelp forests started around 2013, when a mysterious disease called “sea star wasting syndrome” wiped out 90 percent of the purple urchin’s main predator, the sunflower sea star, in a matter of weeks. “It’s just steadily got worse and worse and worse, because there is no kelp.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The decline of the West Coast’s kelp forests started around 2013, when a mysterious disease called “sea star wasting syndrome” wiped out 90 percent of the purple urchin’s main predator, the sunflower sea star, in a matter of weeks. “It’s just steadily got worse and worse and worse, because there is no kelp.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2020 science denial is again a game changer, this time for Republican President Donald Trump, who has continued to downplay COVID -19’s seriousness, even after he was hospitalized for the disease which has killed more than 210,000 Americans.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

” A local salon was also tagged with a message accusing Georgia Power of “telling a lie” to residents about the plant’s health risks. The lawsuit contended the utility’s actions caused a “loss of potable water supply and increased risk of diseases.”

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 17, 2020

The world Health Organization calls the climate crisis, a “Health crisis” and warns that climate change could fuel the spread of infectious diseases. But having, up in the Northeast, because you have everything from beetle infestation and a whole range of things that are causing diseases as well, in addition to eliminating foliage.

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