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Is It Possible To Prevent Global Warming?

The Environmental Blog

Have you ever thought about how I can prevent the effects of global warming, which we feel the effect of today ? What is Global Warming? The release of gases and particles into the atmosphere are the most important factors causing global warming. What Are the Gases Causing Global Warming?

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Sead Pod offers grassroots solution to air pollution and global warming

Inhabitat - Innovation

But plastic and toxins have become ubiquitous, leaving the home gardener to make intentional choices about which products to use. Sead (Sustainable Ecology, Adaptive Design) Pod offers a simple plastic planter for bringing gardens into the smallest spaces while.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

UK biotech company Toraphene says it is preparing to unveil the world’s first truly biodegradable, compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Study analyzes microplastics’ effect on clouds

Envirotec Magazine

“Microplastics in the free troposphere are transported and contribute to global pollution,” said Okochi. Okochi concludes by saying “AMPs are degraded much faster in the upper atmosphere than on the ground due to strong ultraviolet radiation, and this degradation releases greenhouse gases and contributes to global warming.

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Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities

GreenBiz

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5

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Report: Half of global single-use plastic waste traced to just 20 petrochemicals firms

Business Green

Petrochemical firms such as ExxonMobil and Dow responsible for half of global single-use plastic waste, research finds. Global efforts will not be enough to reverse this crisis unless government, business and financial leaders act in our children's and grandchildren's interests," said Forrest.

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Sead Pod offers grassroots solution to air pollution and global warming

AGreenLiving

But plastic and toxins have become ubiquitous, leaving the home gardener to make intentional choices about which products to use. Sead (Sustainable Ecology, Adaptive Design) Pod offers a simple plastic planter for bringing gardens into the smallest spaces while reusing plastic, which is problematic for the environment.