Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Lawns were there to prove a point: I’m so rich, and I have so much land, that I’m willing to waste precious soil and labor to grow something completely and utterly useless. 2011 looked into how efficient our lawns are in fixating carbon. Plants are our best weapon against global warming – at least at the moment.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. “If If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis?

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But there was reason to hope for Milne Fjord: For years, scientists believed this area, home to the oldest and thickest ice in the northern hemisphere, would survive the worst effects of global warming. Even if we do manage to limit global warming to the goal of 1.5 degrees C (2.7

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. Not for her own benefit.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1 REFERENCES.

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