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Tell Kansas City how to fight climate change

Greenability Magazine

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. How is climate change impacting you and your family? more resilient? In 2020, the K.C. What are your biggest concerns?

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Explore local food, climate resilience & equity

Greenability Magazine

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Hotter, drier, CRISPR: Gene editing for climate change

Envirotec Magazine

“It’s a race between a changing climate and plant breeders’ ability to produce crops with genetic resilience that grow well in adverse conditions and have enriched nutritional qualities. “We are looking for genes or gene networks that will improve resilience in adverse growing climates.

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Urgent improvements in water security needed to achieve climate resilience, warns research group

Envirotec Magazine

University of Oxford-led water security reserch programme ( REACH ) publishes its interdisciplinary Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. Findings include less visible climate change impacts, including gendered impacts and those on children, as well as the immediate impacts of droughts and floods.

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Engineering interventions that could reduce exposure of open-water swimmers to human faecal matter

Envirotec Magazine

Despite wastewater treatment works reducing the concentration of human faecal organisms, the continuous discharge of treated effluent into rivers, seas and lakes remains a source of high levels of these organisms. Minimising human faecal organisms in fresh water is a public health priority as well as an environmental one.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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Research reveals remarkable resilience of sea life in the aftermath of mass extinctions

Envirotec Magazine

The study, led by the University of Bristol and published on 23 June in Proceedings of the Royal Society B , is said to pave the way for greater understanding of the impact of climate change on all life forms. The loss of species in the upper part of the ocean had profound impacts on its diversity and function.