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Using Planet Satellite Data to Monitor Threats to Wildlife and Ecosystems

Planet Pulse

Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), an international conservation organization founded in 1858 focuses on maintaining biodiversity and conserving wildlife and ecosystems in protected areas and outstanding wild places. With Planet, we know that the images are current.”. Trust in data.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Water-to-Air Ratio – GreenRoofs101

Green Roof Technology

As long as humans have cultivated plants they have learned that natural parameters in biology, physics and chemistry are given and everything has to collaborate within these nature’s laws. Although we are able to Gen-manipulate plants for better yield, more pest resistant, and for more stress resistance, but the nature’s laws won’t change.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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Biomass Industry Pushes Back Against Europe’s Plans To Protect Woodlands

DeSmogBlog

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. The International Energy Agency has also recommended “maximising” bioenergy – which derives from burning organic material for fuel.

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Trump's Support is Collapsing Because He Is on the Wrong Side of History

Green Market Oracle

Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity. Forest Service to expedite environmental reviews which will increase logging and oil development on public lands. At the same time the U.S.