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‘Flash droughts’ are Midwest’s next big climate threat

Grist

The top images show the impact of a flash drought in Oklahoma in 2012, compared to the same area two years later in the bottom row. Drought Monitor using data on soil moisture, streamflow, and precipitation to categorize droughts by their severity. In 2012, a flash drought struck the Central U.S. Jeffrey Basara.

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Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Grist

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Article continues below. More in this series.

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How to support environmental justice

AGreenLiving

” This goal will become reality “when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.” times higher than the overall population.

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China and Vietnam need sustainable coffee farming

Unsustainable

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. There’s no future in cultivating low-quality coffee, to pollute the environment and get stuck in the vicious circle,” said Ms.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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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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