DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Nitrogen and phosphorous are both essential for plant growth, thus they are made into fertilizers that pollute waterways and coastal zones, and accumulate in the world’s soil and land. Promote polycentric governance – Polycentric governance promotes collaboration, connectivity, and learning across scales and cultures.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Specifically in Africa, we’re looking at the horn of Africa and droughts and rainfall measures,” states Cervantes de Blois.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

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.

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Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

government official if changing the moon’s orbit around the Earth, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun, might be a solution for climate change. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This newly discovered document pinpoints the earliest-known moment that carbon-dioxide-induced climate change was brought to the attention of the highest levels of U.S. government — the President. Hopes for an Ambitious Environmental Program Discovered in the Lyndon B.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Bears Ears National Monument, Utah: Trump ended tribal governance. That's the main thing that the government is afraid of, that's why they don't want these protests going on.". Bureau of Land Management] and all these other government entities as part of the planning for the whole monument.". We've already been written off.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

It has been widely discussed and debated, in public view, among scientists, media, governments, business and society as a whole.” Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

” Bears Ears National Monument, Utah: Trump ended tribal governance Alfred Lomahquahu helped build the five-tribe coalition that proposed the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. “That’s the main thing that the government is afraid of, that’s why they don’t want these protests going on.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. The report outlines steps every level of government can take to combat the climate crisis.

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