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Recovering forests regain a quarter of carbon lost from deforestation

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

This sink is approximately equivalent to counterbalancing half of annual fossil fuel emissions from South America. Using satellite data, a team of international researchers quantified the rates of carbon recovery in different forest types and environments across the three largest tropical forests: Amazon, Central Africa and Borneo.

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First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

North America

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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

Biodiversity

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Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops

Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna. But deforestation has slowly eaten away at its edges, and drought and fire have limited rainforests’ ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

Energy Monitor

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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Trees face extinction, too. What can we do about it?

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What provides habitat for half the world’s known plants and animals, is a vital component of biodiversity and an important economic crop? Central and South America lead in number of tree species, followed by tropical parts of Southeast Asia and Africa. Nor is climate change helping.

South America

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Amazon increases global renewables portfolio holdings, expands into Brazil, India, and Poland

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

Policy

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

Agriculture

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What Would Cities Look Like With 3 Degrees C of Warming vs. 1.5? Far More Hazardous and Vastly Unequal

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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The daily life of a tree farmer with One Tree Planted

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Some of its goals are to restore forests after natural disasters, create jobs and enhance biodiversity.

Health

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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

Climate change

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. “Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.”

Policy

Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture

For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Many of the things that might limit the viability of that as a mitigation technology are not necessarily included in the model, including competition with food, competition with ecosystems, the need to meet biodiversity goals, issues with land rights with respect to indigenous land titles,” Matthews told Grist.

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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, DeSmog revealed with the Financial Times how UK power plant Drax was at the heart of lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. In 2023, I will be watching what happens with oil and gas fields in Alaska, the Arctic, Africa, and South America.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. And it gets worse.

Global warming

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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".

Earth Day

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo.

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