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5 Ways You Can Help Fight Climate Change

Green Living Guy

As the planet heats up, severe weather events become more frequent and powerful, sea levels rise, food crops suffer from extended droughts, and many animal and plant species face extinction. It’s difficult to envision what we, as individuals, can do to address an issue of this magnitude and severity.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

The report builds on decades of previous research from the National Academies — a federally chartered research organization — that highlights the growing risk of oil pollution in the world’s oceans. Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, were not considered in the report although they are a major contributor to ocean pollution.)

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Eco-Anxiety: Why we can’t leave it in the dark

Defend Our Future

She was a renowned environmental activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization focused on environmental conservation and women’s rights. How sea level rise not only threatens polar bears but also leads to entire communities seeking refuge from rising tides.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. However, a handful of forward-looking corporations, conservation organizations and startups recently have accelerated efforts to store carbon in marine systems.

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In the Louisiana Bayou, Dolphin Victims of Hurricane Ida Set the Stage for a Political Fight Over Coastal Restoration

DeSmogBlog

As he drove toward Barataria Bay, he saw in the distance what looked like black plastic garbage bags littering the road. Gabriella Harlamert, coordinator of the Audubon Nature Institute’s wildlife stranding network , says the organization is trying to build up its resources, and that it now has its first boat on order.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Novel entities – Emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials represent some of the key human-driven changes to the planetary environment.