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Tag Archives: Sustainability

From ancient Syracuse to Trump’s golf course, Europe is shrinking as sea levels encroach

From ancient Syracuse to Trump’s golf course, Europe is shrinking as sea levels encroach

[ad_1] At the Trump Doonbeg golf course on Ireland’s west coast, the ocean has been inching closer to a private bar overlooking the 18th hole. Since the links opened in 2002, waves crashing on the edge of the greens have swallowed about a meter of beach each year. Some 808 …

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As Warming Alters Alaska, Can a Key Wildlife Refuge Adapt?

As Warming Alters Alaska, Can a Key Wildlife Refuge Adapt?

[ad_1] A few hours’ drive south of Anchorage, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is an Alaska in miniature. Larger than the state of Delaware, the refuge’s expanse includes snow-capped mountains, forests, lakes, vast wetland networks, and glacier-fed salmon streams that provide habitat to all of the state’s charismatic megafauna: grizzlies, …

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Brexit presents opportunity to ban supertrawlers from UK waters, environmental groups say

Brexit presents opportunity to ban supertrawlers from UK waters, environmental groups say

[ad_1] Campaigners say Brexit presents the government with the perfect opportunity to ban industrial supertrawler fishing boats from UK seas. Supertrawlers are huge factory ships many times larger than fishing boats, with the capability to net and process as much as 250 tons of fish a day. Environmentalists fear the …

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Coronavirus and community activism

Coronavirus and community activism

[ad_1] Some of the environmentalists and leftists I know tell me not to be fooled by the mainstream hype about covid-19. Others are pleased that the lockout in China has reduced pollution. Some say the real issue is not the disease, it’s racism.   I want to suggest a different way …

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Pod of the Planet Ep.3: Transport for the People

Pod of the Planet Ep.3: Transport for the People

[ad_1] Pod of the Planet Ep.3: Transport for the People Why bad decisions?Cars, carbon, pollution, death.Pathways must change now. —Jacqueline Klopp, co-director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development, and an affiliate of the Data Science Institute. Jason Smerdon and Kyu Lee talk about travel, transportation and how the current coronavirus pandemic …

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Il coronavirus fa paura, i mutamenti climatici no, o meglio, non fanno paura a n…

Il coronavirus fa paura, i mutamenti climatici no, o meglio, non fanno paura a n...

[ad_1] Il coronavirus fa paura, i mutamenti climatici no, o meglio, non fanno paura a noi umani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #climate #climatechange #environment #climateaction #globalwarming #savetheplanet #sustainability #climatechangeisreal #earth #climatejustice #climatecrisis #climateemergency #polarbear #arctic #savethearctic #draw #illustration #illustrationart …

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Two biggest recipients of EU fisheries fund misused EU tax payer money, report finds

photo of fisherman to illustrate story saying Commission fishing quota proposal ignores scientist call to catch 60% less plaice

[ad_1] In a recent report, we found that France and Spain have so far failed to use the EU Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) in conservation efforts to end overfishing and restore the marine environment. Instead both countries have continued to give ‘harmful subsidies’ away to fund costs such as …

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When it comes to nuclear power, could smaller be better?

When it comes to nuclear power, could smaller be better?

[ad_1] Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Huge computer screens line a dark, windowless control room in Corvallis, Oregon, where engineers at the …

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EWG News Roundup (3/6): PFAS Resemble Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Nitrate Taints Minnesota Drinking Water and More

EWG News Roundup (3/6): PFAS Resemble Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Nitrate Taints Minnesota Drinking Water and More

[ad_1] In the News This week EWG published a study in the journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that reviewed 26 fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, and found that all display at least one characteristic of known human carcinogens. “Our research has shown that PFAS impact biological functions …

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