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From golf to gardens: Houston’s new botanical garden opens

AGreenLiving

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2018, the horticulture staff quit applying chemicals to the golf course and cut the Bermuda turf very short.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean.

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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” One of its directors attended Harvard Business School, and Yale University took a stake in Antero in 2015, with investments peaking at $230 million the following year, according to a 2018 article in the Yale Daily News. To put it simply,” the report states.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers.