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Plant Lights and Environmental Conservation

The Environmental Blog

More so, felling trees for farming doesn’t just decimate habitats but propels global warming as carbon dioxide-absorbing trees vanish, thereby inflating the carbon trail of farming. Besides the discussed platforms, an array of tools awaits cultivators aiming for yield boosts and minimized eco damage. stands out.

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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves

Grist

Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. Global warming, after all, involves warming.

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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. There are also a number of slower-moving threats to buildings in the UK, such as the impact drying soils have on building foundations. And indeed, the productivity agenda.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.