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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil

Grist

Later, when the Aroostook Band of Micmacs took over the site’s ownership, they found its soil was rife with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, cancer-causing compounds that are so difficult to break down they’re commonly known as “forever chemicals.”. Loring has undergone years of cleanup since the base closed.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study

Envirotec Magazine

The researchers suggest that the new diagram should replace a widely used, more simplified graphic, introduced in 2007, which focused on the natural processes that shape the critical zone without addressing human impact on landscapes.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

Its 2007 report stated that the warming of the climate was "unequivocal". There would also be notable improvements for air quality and human health by taking the pathway to net zero over the next 30 years, followed by negative emissions efforts thereafter, which could then see temperatures stabilise below 1.5C by the 2100.

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From the lab to the field, agriculture seeks to adapt to a warming world

Grist

For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. The IR8 variety of rice, for example, which was integral to the Green Revolution in the 1960s, is being phased out in places in favor of native cultivars that are easier on the soil and more disease-resistant.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. “Low productivity systems” tend to be managed by pastoralists and small farmers who handle most dairy production in low and middle-income countries like Kenya, Nepal, and Mongolia.

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