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

GreenBiz

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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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.” After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested. In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S.

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Why California is fighting fire with fire

Grist

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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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

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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Global Briefing: Indian coal mine auction attracts minimal interest

Business Green

Earlier this week more than 100 developing countries - which amounts to more than half of the world's nations - set out their key negotiating demands for the climate summit, including more ambitious net zero goals across the board, an agreement on international carbon markets, and greater support for climate adaptation, loss, and damage projects.

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The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

Grist

It was through this side gig that Garrett first seriously considered carbon capture. He figured he could tweak his agricultural techniques to suck planet-warming carbon out of the atmosphere and get paid by corporations looking to “offset” their carbon emissions. It turned out Garrett didn’t need to do much to get paid.

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