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HumanNature
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Observed Past Rise.
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Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Brazil’s Amazon: Deforestation ‘surges to 12-year high’ Retrieved from [link]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(33), 16216-16221. Shukman, D.
Vermont Law
AUGUST 17, 2023
In Mexico , the Biosphere Reserve Sierra Gorda faces excessive logging, fires, and deforestation for tourist housing. In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. Spoiled lands and waters was the cost of doing business.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] In 2013, after a high-intensity megafire known as the Rim Fire in the Stanislaus Forest reached Yosemite National Park, where prescriptive burning had occurred, it became a surface fire. 11] The key is producing more food on less land.
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