Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. Meanwhile, the study found fewer mosquitoes at warming lower elevations. “As

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Rinexii

JULY 23, 2021

Today, dandelion rubber is gaining new interest for a different reason–our swiftly warming planet. Rain forests are being cut down to make way for rubber tree plantations, and climate change itself is causing diseases and other problems with the rubber trees themselves.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And, as the film's director Adam McKay explained in a recent podcast with Volts David Roberts , no metaphor is ever going to be exactly right, especially for something as complicated as climate change, but a comet that the world chooses to ignore is not the worst parallel for our current predicament. billion and 3.6 And it gets worse.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

Fink makes the case that climate change will fundamentally reshape the world and finance. Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. [A Investors are increasingly reckoning with these questions and recognizing that climate risk is investment risk.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy. BBC News reported last month that Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Australia were among a group of countries that are seeking to water down a key scientific report to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

presidential special climate envoy John Kerry was asked pointedly about China’s progress on climate change when he testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in mid-May. Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. Climate change impacts are not a distant prospect, but today's reality, affecting nature, people's lives and infrastructure everywhere, and scientific evidence on the scale of the threat is becoming stronger all the time.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. With fire as a theme, it offers a sideways view on climate change, continental scale shifts in biogeography, the sixth extinction, changes in ocean chemistry and sea level, and the character of the human presence on Earth. Australia’s smoke circled the globe.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. This leads to even more another feedback loop! And it will not only be regional.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Its proposed $369 billion expenditure to address climate change represents less than 2% of the country’s annual GDP. Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 26, 2019

million square miles, cutting across the entire continent of South America and extending out into the South Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon is the planet's first line of defense against climate change and it is being razed to make room for carbon intensive farming. The Amazon is composed of 2.12

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 29, 2021

From their origin in the Horn of Africa, modern humans extended their reach to the frigid plains of Siberia, the torrid deserts of Australia and the humid jungles of South America, learning to thrive in even the harshest environments. Now, climate change is […].

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