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

Grist

Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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

Grist

Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Pricing the priceless

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There is something faintly ridiculous about any attempt to suggest clean air or forests or soils are worth £xbn a year, when without them civilisation is essentially doomed. But the Review did help shape the political discourse on climate change and it established something of a new economic orthodoxy.

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

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Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. to participate in and contribute to the cultural, political, and economic shift to a new carbon economy. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. Why Climate Intelligence?

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

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The political economist and policy fellow at Harvard University likens the industry’s techno-fix mentality to the fossil fuel industry’s sustained push for carbon capture and storage, a technology as yet unproven at scale. “We In 2006, he famously challenged the methodology of the UN’s landmark Livestock’s Long Shadow report.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

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Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture. In nearby Sacramento, UC Davis is developing Aggie Square, a fully electrified satellite campus.

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