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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

A prior Harvard study showed that woolly adelgid could take an 8 percent bite out of northeastern forests’ carbon sequestering capabilities between 2000 and 2040. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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