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Lignium Energy Transforms Problematic Manure into Climate-friendly Fuel

Greentown Labs

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could.

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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

AGreenLiving

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

Law 101
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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

Health 136
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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Fairtrade Foundation: UK must clean up food supply chains and stop 'dumping' emissions on poor nations

Business Green

While the UK government claims that the country's emissions have fallen by 41 per cent since 1990, this figure is based on calculations that include only emissions produced on British soil.