A Greener Life
JANUARY 18, 2022
During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation.
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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Academy of Natural Sciences
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Both new species are threatened by deforestation, one is already critically endangered,” said Weckstein. Fast forward to 2007 when Mark Sabaj , PhD, Academy collection manager of fishes, went on his own expedition to Maroni and collected specimens of the same fish, a member of the tetra genus Bryconops. Photo by Gustavo Malacco.
A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
On land, proposals to plant trees and develop bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) are seen as competing with global food security and possibly worsening deforestation. Despite this knowledge, there has been little done since to develop carbon dioxide removal at scale. But ocean-based interventions have also been contentious.
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
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 1] Illegal hazardous waste imports have been on the back burner as Haitian officials prioritize responses to natural disasters and other climate-related harms.[2]
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 9 (2007): 1962-1979, [link]. [10] Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting. The global rate of deforestation has been cut by over half since 1990, from 7.3 18 (2007): 1778–1786. million to 3.3
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