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

Grist

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres.

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

Grist

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

It keeps the focus broad, promoting itself as a leader on climate change while simultaneously downplaying global warming’s significance vis-a-vis other issues and espousing solutions that can serve the industry. P2DNZ has maintained this pro-industry stance in presentations.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. One in five is Black. billion.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. When we face a rapidly closing window of opportunity to tackle the climate emergency, there are still countless climate-denying and delaying influences right at the heart of government.”