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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. It’s one of the worst decisions from foundational Indian law court,” Mills said. It’s just cool to be part of it.”

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production.

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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

They grow or forage some of their own food and medicine, including ginseng and morel mushrooms, and fish and hunt for trout and deer. Blake Scott, Waste Analytics In Ohio, state laws also enable fracking waste treatment facilities to be developed and built without any public participation. While former U.S. and Geneva, Switzerland. “Is

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces. According to Baldocchi, the warming caused by the methane released from delta wetlands about equals, in the short term, the cooling potential of the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

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Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). residential sector.