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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

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When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Increasingly hotter global temperatures mean the sea ice, which would have formed a barrier to protect the island from storms, forms much later in the storm season and melts much sooner.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

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New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. In 2006, he famously challenged the methodology of the UN’s landmark Livestock’s Long Shadow report. Mitloehner is a controversial figure.