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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

per cent of the ocean floor they are home to at least a quarter of all marine species, providing critical habitat and a fundamental source of protein, as well as life-saving medicines. Although reefs cover only 0.2 The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs.

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Why Eco-Friendly Consumers Are Adopting CBD?

Green Living Guy

Cannabidiol (CBD) has become a household name in the health and wellness industry, primarily due to its powerful medicinal properties. Not only can the compound help to treat conditions like pain, anxiety, inflammation, and nausea. But it can also prevent these conditions from occurring in the first place.

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be. Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife.

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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Business Green

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. The good news is that governments have begun to acknowledge the crisis.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

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. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience.

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Threat to terrestrial ecosystems and food security detailed in IPCC land use report

Envirotec Magazine

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors. Improving crop resilience. And the report also shows that better land management can contribute to tackling climate change, but should not be the only solution. Working the land.

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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. Residents have ideas.