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Conservationists from six nations vow to save the Irish Sea

Envirotec Magazine

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. per cent is fully protected.

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Paris Agreement poses major stranded asset risk to Indonesian palm oil, research warns

Business Green

More than nine million hectares of land earmarked for potential palm oil cultivation in Indonesia risks becoming stranded assets if investments and regulations shift towards supporting the global climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement, new research suggests. The research warns that under a 1.5C The research warns that under a 1.5C

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We are on the Cusp of the Collapse of Civilization

Green Market Oracle

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

Hosted in association with Equans, the latest BusinessGreen webinar explored how firms can ensure buildings remain safe and productive as climate impacts intensify Climate action is typically cleaved into two broad categories. New types of data To understand the climate risks to their buildings, organisations need to get educated.

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Why should the Scottish woodlands be protected?

AGreenLiving

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Reforestation has thereby become an important tool in combatting Earth’s climate emergency. Many are nationally and globally rare and some are found nowhere else in the world.”

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Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees

Unsustainable

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. As authors Otis Parrish and Kent G.