Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. Lignium Energy was founded in Santiago, Chile, four years ago in an effort to curb the country’s high pollution levels. Today, cow manure is a major climate and logistical problem on farms.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Hundreds of cities are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution while thousands of hectares of forest burn. Brazilians are currently living in a dystopian landscape. Thick smoke, oppressive heat and eerily orange sunsets blanket both major cities and small villages.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The cultivation of cattle, palm oil, and soybeans in particular has led to depleted freshwater, widespread deforestation, and rampant extinctions, all of it underwritten by $700 billion in government subsidies each year that support unsustainable, polluting practices. In turn, this has unleashed tons and tons of greenhouse gasses each year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The carbon neutrality goal was achieved by slashing emissions - with scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions reduced by over 50 per cent since 2010 - combined with carbon offset purchases, from four non-profit projects across the US, Africa, Asia and South America, the firm said. "We

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

In addition to carbon pollution, the fires are producing, well, regular air pollution. Since early November , vast smoke plumes have been wafting from eastern Australia all the way across the Pacific to the shores of South America. “It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Specifically, the increasing trend of replacing soya imported from South America (which has a high environmental footprint associated with deforestation) with home-grown crops such as rapeseed and sunflower meal to feed pigs was found to have a significant mitigating effect on environmental outputs.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is despite wealthier nations having fueled the majority of pollution worldwide. For instance, most studies concerning the effects of climate change have been conducted in North America and Europe, leaving little to no information about Africa and South America.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. After that, the Manta will operate in Africa and South America but will also intervene in temporarily polluted areas following climatic or natural disasters.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. The state was held responsible for widespread pollution caused by the La Oroya smelter complex, which was operated by Doe Run Peru (an indirect subsidiary of U.S.-based based Doe Run Company) from 1997 to 2009.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The study reveals that the regions contributing the most to global N2O emissions are East Asia, South Asia, Africa and South America, with emissions from synthetic fertilisers dominating releases in China, India and the US and emissions from the application of livestock manure dominating in Africa and South Africa.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2022

Tsunami waves hit Japan, Australia, and North and South America. Saltwater has inundated large portions of the island, possibly polluting aquifers and threatening agricultural land. The January 15 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha?apai, People as far away as Alaska heard the acoustic waves generated by the explosion.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. With these permit exemptions, Nopetro LNG and Venture Global avoided lengthy environmental reviews to begin building two polluting facilities as fast as possible near Black communities in the Gulf of Mexico.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the words of Nicolás Pérez, principal researcher at CEGA, “green hydrogen can be an energy alternative for transportation that does not pollute and replaces fossil fuels.” The project in Aysén not only seeks regional development, but is also aligned with the country’s climate objectives.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Simultaneously, there are unprecedented restrictions on civil society access to the talks, which only exacerbate the gross imbalance of power between people and polluters, and threaten to undermine the legitimacy of COP26 outcomes.”. In some cases, the affiliation with the oil industry was publicly declared on the participant list for COP26.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Glencore, the sector’s biggest carbon polluter in 2016 according to an analysis by Rocky Mountain Institute, is on target to cut emissions by a mere 5 percent between 2016 and 2020. Both Rio Tinto and Glencore are expected to unveil new targets this year.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

Similar creatures live in other rivers of South America and Asia, but they all face threats from humans. In 2007, China’s Yangtze River dolphin was pronounced extinct due to pollution, habitat degradation and overfishing. The dolphins use echolocation to hunt murky Amazon pools for turtles, fish and freshwater crabs.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

UpEnergy said the sale of the credits provide an opportunity for African consumers with access to electricity to abandon the burning of unsustainable and polluting wood-based fuels and switch to zero-emission cooking. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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The City Fix

JULY 9, 2024

Amazonian cities are diverse in opportunities and needs. The region’s biodiversity is among the world’s most important, but its cities’ sustainability challenges are less well-known. These jurisdictions require financial support and capacity building to create sustainable, conservation-oriented, equitable, urban green.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This “reputational sportswash,” Simms adds, is why sport sponsorships are such a “prized asset” for fossil fuel companies, which also use them to promote the false narrative of individual responsibility for environmental pollution and climate change. That is classic misdirection.

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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. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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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 City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Public transport is one of the best, most cost-effective solutions available to address today’s climate and development challenges. Buses and trains can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to two-thirds per passenger, per kilometer compared to private vehicles. The UN’s latest.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Mycelium is constantly looking for waste products — oil, plastic, metals, other pollutants — and converting them into nutrients for the environment,” Hendrikx said. According to Hendrix, the company hopes the research can persuade policymakers to convert polluted areas into forests by burying bodies in such areas.

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2023

To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around the credibility of many of these pledges and whether these goals will be met. Together, countries with net-zero targets — which.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The tax reductions increase if you’re using local services, union labor and US-made products, and/or if you have a project in an area that has been historically underserved or is suffering from pollution. I would like to see that in South America, where there is only one large geothermal project (in Chile) , but many more untapped resources.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. They released the world’s first plan to achieve net-zero carbon pollution. And there’s a reason for that: Chevron owns The Richmond Standard.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Further, 82% of consumers across age demographics are willing to pay more for sustainable packaging, according to a 2023 survey of 9,000 consumers spanning Europe, North America and South America. Scores are provided for plastic pollution, chemicals of concern, climate, water use, sustainable sourcing, and recoverability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

alone, more than 12,000 miles of waterways are impacted by acidic mine-drainage-water rich in heavy metals, the country’s leading source of water pollution. And unlike organic pollutants, most of which can be eventually broken down, heavy metals don’t biodegrade, but persist indefinitely and bioaccumulate. In the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe. Coal is the single biggest contributor to global climate change.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S., What are their rights as a tenant?”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

With air pollution choking some of its largest cities, it has shuttered dozens of old coal facilities in recent years, and has subsidized renewable energy projects, both domestically and globally. Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. These people will be exposed to worsening heat stress, air pollution, water and food supply risks unless action is urgently taken.

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