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Amazon risks becoming a savannah as deforestation impact grows, study war

Business Green

They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016. The Gran Chaco is the largest dry forest in South America, around a quarter of the size of the entire European Union.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s profitable

GreenBiz

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. He says he has seen cases in South America where people have worked to transform degraded cattle ranches into cocoa plantations. A changing debate.

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Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s profitable

AGreenLiving

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. ” He says he has seen cases in South America where people have worked to transform degraded cattle ranches into cocoa plantations. “They say, ‘it’s agroforestry,’” Konig says.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Phillip participated in the Climate Corps program in 2016 with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo.