Tag: climate change
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There is No Planet B
TOMDISPATCH — While protesting that Sunday, I noted one slogan on a number of hand-made signs that struck me as the most pointed (and poignant) of the march: “There is no planet B.” It seemed to sum up …
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Improving Climate Protection in the Agricultural Sector
As part of the study, scientists investigated 40 organic and 40 conventional agricultural holdings across Germany’s four agricultural regions. They focused exclusively on crop and dairy farms. The scientists recorded all relevant climate gas streams during the entire production process, including methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. In the case of dairy farms, they also…
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Tell Attorney General Holder: No Tax Write-Offs for BP for Spilling Oil
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL — We need your help to tell Attorney General Eric Holder that we won’t stand for our government allowing BP to take a tax write-off for devastating the Gulf …
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Global Water Security Map Released by WRI
“Water is very complicated. It’s affected by large-scale issues like climate change and globalization. International commerce moves virtual water (the water it takes to grow or produce a product) from farms in Brazil to grocery stores in China and Egypt.”
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Rising Sea Levels Could Spark Largest Migration of Displaced People in History
THE HUNGRY TIDE — Kiribati is expected to be one of the first countries to disappear as a result of climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the homes and lives of 105,000 residents spread over …