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Less air pollution leads to higher crop yields, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Past research has been limited by a lack of overlap between air monitoring stations and agricultural areas, and confounding effects of different pollutants, among other challenges to ground-based analysis. North and South America generally had the lowest NOx exposures.

Pollution 130
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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Summary -In September 2020, ice volume in the Arctic Ocean was just one quarter of what it was in 1979. After 2020 however, in which the Arctic was literally on fire , it felt to me like we had only have a few years left until the first ice-free summer can be declared in the Arctic. And we are dangerously close.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. Amazonia had its worst fire season in 20 years.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)