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    We Use Environmental DNA to Monitor How Human Activities Affect Life in Rivers

    The Conversation Sep 21, 2021

    Rivers, lakes and wetlands cover just 1% of the Earth’s surface but are home to nearly 10% of all species, including fish, mammals, birds, insects and crustaceans. But these rich,…

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    Louisianans’ Way of Life on the Coast is Threatened By the Very Plans Meant to Save their Wetlands

    The Conversation Sep 21, 2021

    Waves of disaster have earned Louisiana a reputation as the place to watch for how climate change will impact coastal areas. Hurricane Ida was merely a punctuation mark in a…

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    China is Financing Infrastructure Projects Around the World – Many Could Harm Nature and Indigenous Communities

    The Conversation Sep 20, 2021

    China is shaping the future of economic development through its Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious multi-billion-dollar international push to better connect itself to the rest of the world through…

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    Community Groups Say Brooklyn Pipeline Harms Communities of Color

    Grist Sep 19, 2021

    Environmental justice advocates have spent more than a year staging demonstrations against a natural gas pipeline being built in Brooklyn, New York. They’ve biked the route of the pipeline, chained themselves to…

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    Creating Conversion-free Supply Chains to Save the Grasslands

    GreenBiz Sep 19, 2021

    Deforestation has been the poster child of the environmental movement for decades. For good reason, as healthy forests are of primary importance for biodiversity, climate and local livelihoods. But they’re…

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    According to a New Study, 90% of Coal Must Remain Buried

    Grist Sep 11, 2021

    To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean…

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    Packaging Generates a Lot of Waste – Now Maine and Oregon Want Manufacturers to Foot the Bill

    The Conversation Sep 8, 2021

    Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about…

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    Sustainability is Good Business

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    Seattle-based Evrnu, a newly certified B Corporation, is two years into a partnership with Levi Strauss & Co. that will put the first jeans on the market made from cotton waste…

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    Protecting the Ozone Layer and Carbon Sequestration

    Environmental News Network Aug 30, 2021

    Previous “world-avoided” experiments have shown that, without the Montreal Protocol, ozone levels would be depleted globally by the mid-twentieth century. Protecting the ozone layer also protects Earth’s vegetation and has…

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    Restoring Fish Passages to Save Salmon in Washington

    The Counter Aug 28, 2021

    The first thing you see when you enter Camp Colman, is The Lagoon. Speckled with docks and nestled in the woods just south of Joemma Beach State Park, it’s an integral part…

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    Conservation Plan Threatens Indigenous Food Security

    Food Tank Aug 28, 2021

    In October 2021, the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) plans to push for the formal adoption of the 30 x 30 agenda to preserve 30 percent of the Earth’s land and sea by…

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    Climate Change is an Infrastructure Problem

    The Conversation Aug 24, 2021

    Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today…

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