DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

With extreme heat in particular, the answer is often tens or even hundreds of times more likely, thanks to a complicated mix of factors like abnormally dry soils and hotter-than-usual air. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever. South, straining emergency services and causing more than a dozen deaths.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 79

Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. However, there is a growing body of thought on how best to measure and minimise environmental impacts, before then developing strategies that can actually enhance the health of life on land.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health. “Each pit is surrounded by de-vegetated areas of muddy soil ,” Justin Wilkinson, a grant specialist at Texas State University, wrote for NASA’s Earth Observatory. Mass graves have been found in the area.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

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. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Bold and transformative action is needed to tackle environmental challenges such as deforestation and climate change, and to protect the health of our planet and global communities.". Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, argued that it was essential that all businesses and governments take steps to bring an end to deforestation.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Another way to save food from entering landfills is by starting a composting program to turn food waste into useful, nutrient-rich soil. Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

If his soil could be healthier, his crop yield higher, his profit margins wider, he makes it happen. He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. Grainfill Creative.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Logging Soil 144

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While millions of hectares of the island's rainforests were officially in protected areas, corruption, illegal logging, and slash and burn clearances were rife, prompting warnings that the remaining forests could disappear completely within two decades.

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Grist

JUNE 30, 2021

Muskrat cruise the reeds as turtles bask on floating logs. These marshes and swamps, where plants grow thick in soil saturated with water, are natural traps and filters for runoff and sediment. Scientists have found wetlands to be critically connected to the health of larger bodies of water, like the Charles.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young activists that fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12. He is also concerned about health problems in black communities due to poor air quality.

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