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Certain environment authority decisions are based on trust in citizen data

Envirotec Magazine

This may concern logging or exploiting land and water areas for road construction, wind turbines, emissions, industrial installations, or other types of interventions that have consequences for the environment. The study is based on interviews with officials around Sweden who use citizen’s sightings to make decisions on land and water issues.

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Using Planet Satellite Data to Monitor Threats to Wildlife and Ecosystems

Planet Pulse

In remote regions of the world or those where political conflicts reduce access to protected areas, researchers and conservationists need solutions for monitoring activity that threatens wildlife and ecosystems. . We have to protect nature’s pristine areas,” explains Manuel Engelbauer, FZS’s South American program officer. “All

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Pro-geothermal policies being pushed in the US at federal, state levels

ThinkGeoEnergy

The new law also changes the duties of the Energy Conservation and Management Division of the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department to make them the authority in regulating the exploration, development, and production of geothermal resources on public and private land.

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Campaigners Sued an Oil Major For Climate Deception. Now the Company Is Preparing to Sue Them Back.

DeSmogBlog

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Around 14 million internal tobacco industry documents related to decades of advertising, marketing, political activities, and more are now in a public archive at the University of California, San Francisco. In April, a U.S.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Their reliance on the energy source to meet stringent emissions targets is now heavily political — and hard to correct — despite the growing scientific evidence against it. . In an email response Enviva’s director of communications and public affairs María Moreno wrote that Enviva follows all applicable environmental laws, including the U.S.

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Indigenous land defender goes missing in Oaxaca, Mexico

AGreenLiving

Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the Indigenous Mixtec group in Oaxaca, very publicly defended her people’s lands from illegal logging. According to the Mexican Centre for Environmental Law, people attacked 65 environmental defenders in 2020 and murdered 18. It’s all about logging. She hasn’t been seen since Oct.

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