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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms. Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF).

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How Fossil Fuels Are Being Used To Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

R-Squared Energy

In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Now over 90% of homes are using LPG – almost the entire population of Indonesia since 2004. How does your organization facilitate LPG adoption? Rockall: Our organization brings together the LPG industry right across the world. Take Indonesia, for instance.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Fossil Fuels Still Supply 84 Percent Of World Energy

R-Squared Energy

It is a primary source of data for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Carbon dioxide emissions set a fourth consecutive new all-time high. Since the negotiation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb emissions, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen by 50%.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Another would abandon fescue altogether and restore the native grasses and wildflowers that once dominated the region, as well as help revitalize natural carbon sinks and fight climate change.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 times that of carbon dioxide alone. The key greenhouse gases and emitted by aircraft are Carbon dioxide (CO2), Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and water vapour. Air travel is a major source of climate change causing greenhouse gases.